"Top Five Choices – *****/***** (highest rating) Revelatory... Lifts the lid on one of music's best kept secrets... Music and performance to stimulate the most jaded of taste buds."
Gramophone Magazine "Record of the Month"; Classic CD Magazine "Top 5 Choices"
Christine Brandes (soprano) and Nicholas McGegan OBE directing the Arcadian Academy (Elizabeth Blumenstock and Lisa Weiss, violins; Mary Springfels, viola da gamba; David Tayler, lute, theorbo and guitar and Nicholas McGegan OBE, harpsichord). Repertoire: Già lusingato appieno dai Zeffiri; Ebra d'amor fuggia "Arianna": Poi che riseppe Orfeo; Bella madre dei fiori.