Alpha
-
This is perfect ground for Lindsey and Cohen, both extremely accomplished and transformative performers of Baroque music...Her extraordinary vocal evocations are complemented throughout by the... —
Awards:
-
Presto Editor's Choice, May 2021
-
Gramophone Magazine, July 2021, Editor's Choice
-
BBC Music Magazine, September 2021, Opera Choice
-
Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
-
International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
-
BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2022, Shortlisted - Vocal
-
-
The imaginative creation by Simon-Pierre Bestion’s ensemble, La Tempête, is so stirring, heart-tugging and well recorded that I don’t know whether to sink to my knees in prayer or erupt into... —
-
This is one of the best programmes that I have encountered in recent years, both in concept and execution, and it begins with an icon of early music, Allegri’s Miserere…The singers of Le Poème... —
Awards:
-
Diapason d’Or, October 2019, Nouveauté
-
Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2019, Recording of the Month
-
International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Baroque Vocal
-
Gramophone Magazine, December 2019, Critics' Choice
-
-
As an album it radiates an inventive glee similar to Uri Caine’s Goldberg Variations (Winter & Winter, 10/00). Consider the Ikea-esque build-your-own-motet approach of Super flumina Babylonis. —
Awards:
-
Gramophone Awards, 2025 Shortlist, Early Music
-
-
Bestion’s singers are very flexible, and frequently superb...they are equal to Scelsi’s quartertones; and they can sing ‘straight’ when needed. These stylistic shifts are not jarring. —
Awards:
-
Presto Editor's Choice, January 2022
-
-
A dazzling spectrum of string-playing, all topped by sparkling singing. It’s a clever programme too...every piece is engaging and exciting, making for a high-energy, sonically delightful album... —
Awards:
-
Gramophone Magazine, June 2025, Editor's Choice
-
-
If the idea of a recital consisting almost entirely of two α recorders makes you uneasy, think again...for all this to work, the playing needs to be immaculate. That the focus ends up being... —
-
Antonini (Italy’s answer to the Pied Piper) coaxes alluring sounds from his battery of instruments (recorders, flute, dulcian, chalumeau), and the 13 members of his ensemble follow with equal... —
Awards:
-
Diapason d’Or, June 2019
-
Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2019, Winner - Musique ancienne
-
International Classical Music Awards, 2020, Nominee - Early Music
Purchase product
Downloads
Audio formats guide -
-
Niquet appropriately creates a liturgical framework, weaving plainchant, motets and instrumental items around the main work; these also serve to contrast with and complement the sometimes gluttonously... —
Awards:
-
Presto Editor's Choice, June 2018
-
Gramophone Magazine, August 2018, Editor's Choice
-
Diapason d’Or, July/August 2018, Nouveauté
Purchase product
Downloads
Audio formats guide -
-
The ensemble continues to do what it does best but retains a freshness and questing spirit that sometimes eludes groups of comparable vintage, a sense of joyous music-making that marked them... —
Awards:
-
Gramophone Magazine, February 2015, Editor's Choice
-
Gramophone Awards, 2015, Finalist - Early Music
-
