Purcell - Bonduca or The British Heroine - incidental music, Z574

Ruby Hughes’s soprano has an effortless beauty: pliant, subtly expressive, never forced. She captures the chaste fervour of the sacred works…Brinkmann and Nordberg proffer aptly spontaneous... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Such complementary voices, Chance fine-drawn, Bowman a touch richer, more coloured, are ideal in this selection of inventive duets. Blow's Ode on Purcell's death is particularly fine, intensely... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2014, 5 out of 5 stars More…

All these works were published within 18 months of Purcell's death. The 13 suites of choice movements from plays and semi-operas, entitled A Collection of Ayres, compos'd for theTheatre, and... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Most effective are the ballads and lighter, folksy numbers, where Mields's agile voice enchants...Purists may fgind the ensemble takes a few too many liberties, orchestrating these pieces wioth... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2012, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The performers have gone to great lengths to achieve an authentic sound. Rachel Barton Pine plays a late-Renaissance era fiddle rather than a Baroque violin...But what really seizes the ear... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2013, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Supported with exceptional clarity by Jakob Lindberg, Kirkby conveys both intellectual appreciation and a deep emotional connection with the words in this recital...[her] 'Bess of Bedlam' is... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2011, 4 out of 5 stars More…