‘Beautifully engineered … and played by all concerned with effortless artistry, the music of Frescobaldi has rarely sounded as seductive as this’ (International Record Review)

‘Kenny's performances are technically expert … they are invariably sensitive, with special attention paid to the suppleness of phrasing. She never shortchanges the ornamentation, and incorporates rhetorical pauses in the musical textures of the slower works into her sound to great effect. All the material she plays is treated with an identical attention to detail and shaping, regardless of tempo or weight … top marks all around’ (Fanfare, USA)

‘The listener is able to savour the individual qualities of each work while finding additional pleasure in the numerous correspondences and differences that pervade the collection—all the while marvelling not only at Kenny's acute sense of local colour, form and texture but also her considerable technical prowess, the latter especially obvious in the profuse ornamentation and extended divisions throughout’ (Gramophone)

‘Kenny's passage-work is exhiliaratingly crisp but most startling here is the bold ornamentation and dramatic dynamics’ (The Independent)

‘A valuable release in terms of providing an opportunity to hear little-known works from a glorious musical era’ (International Record Review)

‘Forced to be restricted to one disc that conveys the essence of the period, this would be it. A must’ (American Record Guide)

‘It is fascinating to hear for the first time music by Banister and Grabu and Purcell's recently-discovered Staircase Overture’ (Gramophone)

‘A marvellous introduction to the instrumental world in which Purcell grew up’ (Early Music Review)

‘It would be hard to imagine more persuasive perfomances than these nimble accounts by Fischer and his alert Ulster players. Good clean sound, too. Warmly recommended’ (Fanfare, USA)

‘Crisp, stylish performances’ (Classic FM Magazine)

‘The immediacy and brilliance of Hyperion's recording of music by Jean Françaix brings to the three works a wonderful panoply of colour’ (Essex Chronicle)

‘The playing here is absolutely first class: rhythmically taut, clear and bright in texture, with a wide range in dynamics, spaciously but not echoingly recorded’ (Gramophone)