“… so it is not surprising that Marcon and Kozena also find symbiotic vitality in Monteverdi. This is largely due to Marcon’s excellent Basel ensemble “La Cetra”: virtuoso violins and tines, clashing tambourines, garlands of lutes and theorbos, the driving force of the rhythmic patterns and the improvisatory gesture of the ornamented melodic lines provide a thrilling drive time and again – or even an internalised calm, as in Marini’s tender Passacaglia.”
Reinmar Wagner, Music & Theatre, March/April 2016
Here Magdalena Kožená can play and improvise, be a terrified creature of nature truly suited to her, a spirit of the air, a hopeless lover, one disappointed by life, a shepherdess oblivious of his own.
Matthias Siehler, Rondo (Munich) / 01 January 2016
Magdalena Kožená endows the expressive literary settings with modern mezzo tones . . . Gripping!
Kevin Clarke, Men / 25 January 2016
Andrea Inghischiano of the La Cetra Barockorchester Basel first turns sensational pirouettes on the cornet-before Kožená confidently shows off with huge, luminous radiance, interspersing magical moments of doubt. For this alone, the new recording of “Kožená meets Monteverdi” was worthwhile.
Guido Fischer , Rondo (Munich) / 01 January 2016