‘This is easily the most thoroughly produced Vivaldi lute record yet to come my way… played with style, wit and grace. The digital recording is warmly sympathetic. Best of the Month’ (Hi-Fi News)

‘The playing is first class – an hour of sheer pleasure’ (Classical Guitar)

‘The performances are 'authentic' in the best meaning of the word, and the recorded sound is everywhere first rate’ (Gramophone)

‘Pure Venetian magic’ (Amazon.co.uk)

‘Excellent’ (International Record Review)

‘This is a very attractive disc—all the more as it's on Hyperion's budget label. The band plays with crisp articulation, the recorded sound is excellent, and Emma Kirkby, in a recording from 1994, is jaw-droppingly virtuosic in the showstopping semiquaver runs and wide-ranging leaps of the more agitated heroine's arias’ (The Daily Gazette)

‘The flavour of the baroque strings is strong and unmistakeable, but of greater importance is the unerring preservation by the ensemble of every detail in Vivaldi's busy scores’ (CDReview)

‘A definitive account of Vivaldi's glorious viola d'amore concertos, one to revel in … some of the most beguiling music he wrote. Mackintosh, on top form, acts her role with the utmost virtuosity, lovely tone, unimpeachable intonation, and fine style. The OAE rise to the occasion, making this splendidly engineered recording one to treasure’ (Gramophone)

‘Another Hyperion winner’ (Gramophone)

‘It is incredible that a composer of this strength has been so overlooked. On the evidence of this recording alone he should be treated as a national treasure’ (The Scotsman)

‘Three superb romantic scores. The symphony is a major discovery’ (Yorkshire Post)

‘An indispensable collection for those who know the repertoire; a revelation to those who do not’ (Gramophone)