Harmonia Mundi

…the first recording on period instruments of Symphony No 80. The Freiburgers are alive to this curious work's contradictions: the vehemence of the Sturm und Drang opening, giving way to the... — Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2009More…

...few manage to shape the overall structure and each movement therein quite as convincingly as Kern. This is particularly true of the first movements of both sonatas...The last movement of... — Gramophone Magazine, August 2010More…

The perfect, and perfectly lovely, unity of Conspirare's choral tone was not entirely welcome. But they're not bland: their care for words and expression guards against that, as does their... — Gramophone Magazine, December 2009More…

The Huelgas's radiant performance of this magical six-part Requiem (1521, probably) would surely have delighted Josquin. Plus six gorgeous motets. — BBC Music Magazine, January 2014, 5 out of 5 starsMore…

Harmonia Mundi's budget series typically provides no songtexts; but Werner Gura's uniquely elqouent tenor makes these settings flower so that literal translations are barely necessary. — BBC Music Magazine, March 2013, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

No ensemble delivers Renaissance chansons with as much character, colour and energy as Ensemble Clement Janequin. The texts (sadly online only) and music run from the earthy to the ethereal. — BBC Music Magazine, December 2013, 5 out of 5 starsMore…