Monteverdi

Press commentary

“And with the La Cetra Baroque Orchestra under the baton of Andrea Marcon, she has chosen congenial companions.”

Dirk Kruse, BR Klassik

“This is also largely due to Marcon’s fabulous 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 – Musik & Theater, March/April 2016

« …[Kožená] could find no better accompanists than Swiss early-music ensemble La Cetra, whose settings incorporating lute and period strings bring a wonderful, folksy texture and dancing gait to songs such as “Damigella, tutta bella ».

Record Review / Andy Gill, Independent (London) – 19.02.2016

«Supporting her with an exemplary combination of emotional heat, rhythmic energy and rhapsodic freedom is La Cetra, a crack ensemble of 13 players . . . Under the shrewd and supple direction of Andrea Marcon they create a wonderful rich sound, patterned with the unusual silvery tracery of the psaltery, a form of zither . . . But the orchestra really shows its class in the songs, where they react to every twist and turn of the words, just as closely as Kozená herself …»

Ivan Hewett, The Daily Telegraph (London) – 20.02.2016