Deutsche Grammophon

Allegrini can take the spotlight because he is an exceptional artist...Abbado's resilient rhythms and themes shrewdly differentiated in the first movement of K417 offer Allegrini a framework... — Gramophone Magazine, December 2011More…

here's an intelligent, polished and technically brilliant player who gets under the skin of the music. He demonstrates both thunderous strength and delicacy in the Polonaise-Fantasie. — Classic FM Magazine, October 2011, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

The velvety patina and fierce core strength of the Italian bass-baritone is on show here in a patterning of both popular operatic and rarer concert arias...He shifts from the expression of astonishment... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2011, 3 out of 5 starsMore…

in this previously unreleased recording we are held spellbound...[by] the Fischer-Dieskau of the mid 1960s, subtly shading his dynamics and tone, I can’t say the alto voice is much missed...with... — The Times, 6th May 2011, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

both appealing and frequently impressive...Somewhere between Puccini and Britten at their most intimate, it isn't wildly original, but it's entirely listenable...Elizabeth Futral's clear but... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2011, 4 out of 5 starsMore…