RECORDINGS

Western Wind

AV2352

WESTERN WIND

Taverner Consort & Choir

Andrew Parrott conductor

'The Taverner Consort at their very best'

Gramophone "Editor's Choice" review

'A benchmark performance'

BBC Music Magazine

'Rich and intimate'

The Sunday Times

Promise of Ages

AV2291

THE PROMISE OF AGES

Taverner Consort & Choir

Andrew Parrott conductor

‘A truly revelatory programme which might safely have been named “Quite Simply the Best Christmas Album Ever”… A Christmas cornucopia of the timeless and the contemporary, the old world and the new, Parrott’s collection is also a sly celebration of the central role of women in the Christmas story, in performances of staggeringly rich musical variety.’

BBC Music Magazine

‘No one has recorded more innovative Christmas anthologies than Andrew Parrott – and this disc is no exception… All of the performances are exemplary, but Emily Van Evera deserves special praise… This collection can stand alongside Parrott's The Carol Album as the thinking person's Christmas albums.’

Amazon music editor, Matthew Westphal

Dido & Aeneas

AV2309

DIDO & AENEAS

Taverner Choir & Players
Emily Van Evera Dido

Andrew Parrott conductor

'This fresh performance... places the accent on giving colour and meaning to every word... a performance that charms as well as moves in abundance... Given a simple choice [amongst all recordings]... I'd walk away with this one.'

BBC Music Magazine

'a fine group of soloists [led by] Emily Van Evera's passionate Dido... moods and emotions are vividly expressed throughout... Van Evera's noble account of Dido's lament [creates a] feeling of profound grief at the opera's close.'

The Daily Telegraph, UK

L'Orfeo

Avie AV2278

Claudio Monteverdi:

L'ORFEO

Taverner Consort & Players

Andrew Parrott conductor

'the most beguiling Monteverdi opera recording for years.'

The Times

'With soprano Emily Van Evera's bright, youthful timbre, unaffected delivery and well-chosen expressive colours, the messenger's awful news, often a melodramatic rant from a murky mezzo, sounds like a loving friend struggling to find words for her horror and shock. '

Opera News

'her Proserpina is so lovely that Christopher Purves' Plutone must give in to her request.'

www.ClassicsToday.com

Trauer-Music

Avie AV2241

J.S. Bach

TRAUER-MUSIC

Taverner Consort & Players

Andrew Parrott conductor

‘Effortlessly lovely performances and a richly rewarding recording’

Andrew McGregor, CD Review, BBC Radio 3, Oct 2011

‘With great nuance, rhetorical power, and natural agility Emily Van Evera sings the three soprano arias—all of them from the Matthew Passion, two being the most plaintively expressive numbers from that work and the last an expansive plea for the end to grieving.’

David Yearsley, www.counterpunch.org, Apr 2012

So Sweet a Melody

SOMM CD0102

SO SWEET A MELODY

The Hildegard Choir and guests

Emily Van Evera soprano

Gulliver Ralston conductor

'Van Evera deliciously otherworldly-sounding ... numinous contributions from Emily Van Evera particularly catch the ear.'

The Classical Review

'The deeply expressive soprano Emily Van Evera ...has a huge command of timbre and phrasing.'

Birmingham Post

My Lady Rich

Avie AV0045

MY LADY RICH

Emily Van Evera soprano

Christopher Morrongiello lute

Caroline Trevor, John Potter, Daniel Norman, Michael Dore voices

Susanna Pell, Susanne Heinrich, Richard Campbell, Reiko Ichise, Asako Morikawa viols Lynda Sayce bass lute & bandora

Jacob Heringman cittern Emily Van Evera recorder Lucy Carolan virginals

'magnificent... This is a majestic program from start to finish - beautifully conceived and executed. Emily Van Evera's voice seems perfect for evoking the ethereal beauty of Lady Rich.'

American Record Guide

'exquisitely wrought album from Emily Van Evera and her seasoned collaborators... a stand-out recording.'

Classic FM Magazine

'this recital succeeds marvellously... an impressive cast of musicians... musical portraits are seldom more attractive than this.'

Gramophone

'a rich tapestry of miniatures... quite aside from what it teaches you about the period, My Lady Rich is a winning and musically satisfying sequence, balanced to perfection' .

The Independent

Renaissance Music

CHAN 0524

RENAISSANCE MUSIC

from the Courts of Mantua and Ferrara

Circa 1500

'Every once in a while a disc comes along that stops you dead in your tracks ... This is one of those discs and it has everything one could wish for ... it is the soprano Emily Van Evera who is the undoubted star ... most striking is the downright sensuality of her singing, which is at times deliciously erotic. Buy it.'

Classic CD

'The soprano starring in most of these tracks is Emily Van Evera, whose voice is as near to an angel's as I have ever heard. I eschew encomia, but this must be what heaven sounds like. Her singing is sheerly, absolutely ravishing.'

Patrick Moore, Amazon review

2-CD set

Virgin Veritas 4820792

IN THE STREETS AND THEATRES OF LONDON and JOYNE HANDS

Musicians of Swanne Alley

'I do not know of a Renaissance ensemble, in the Old or in the New World, which performs on such a high level ... devastatingly beautiful ... it is even more fantastic when Emily Van Evera sings: with spontaneity, freshness and palpable sensuality. This disc is exquisite and the best Renaissance music interpretation in a long, long time!'

Alte Musik Aktuall (Germany)

'Reviewers praised the original issue on Virgin to high heaven and I will heartily concur... In short, highly recommended to all those who love this type of music.'

Classical Net

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