David Daniels
Virgin Classics
7243 5 4540028

A musical delicatessen of refined works, from Cesti to Vaughan Williams, sung by one of the most complete vocalists of the present day.

CAVALLI

La Calisto
Concerto Vocale
René Jacobs
harmonia mundi
HMC 901515-17

Jacobs, one of my maestros, has chosen an enviably balanced cast in order to endow this opera with the whole spectrum of lights and shadows this repertoire requires.

BACH

De Occulta Philosophia
Emma Kirkby,
Carlos Mena,
José Miguel Moreno
Glossa GDC 920107

Listening to the two versions of the Chaconne, makes me dream of the many sides of Bach. And I also take part in this recording, together with two seminal names in early music, Moreno and Kirkby.

BACH

Matthäus-Passion
Barbara Schlick,
René Jacobs
Peter Kooy
Collegium Vocale Gent
Philippe Herreweghe
harmonia mundi
HMC 90-1.155/57

From the early days of the early music revival comes this marvellous recording of the Passion, full of freshness and with a very wide rhetorical range.

JANÁCEK

Sinfonietta.
Glagolitic Mass
Philharmonia Orchestra
Simon Rattle
EMI 724356698024

Perceiving Janácek's musical language in all its splendour in the Glagolitic Mass takes me back to my adolescence, when I discovered new composers were a gift for life.

VIVALDI

Concerti e Cantate
Sara Mingardo
Concerto Italiano
Rinaldo Alessandrini
Opus 111 OP 30181

Sara is an exciting singer; Rinaldo has a consummate knowledge of this repertory; and the Concerto Italiano ensemble is full of force and virtuosity. The result is an excellent combination. @|page# BRUCKNER

Sinfonie 7-9
Stuttgart Radio
Symphony Orchestra
Deutsche Grammophon
445 471-2

A composer I will never cease to admire championed under the baton of the great Celibidache. And it also comes with a CD of the rehearsals!

La música extremada

Carlos García-Bernalt
VRS 2002

I have been very fortunate to meet this great musician, who has made such a great contribution to my work. This is a sublime disc, running from the most intimate musical emotion to the most plethorical, from serenity to virtuosity, and from meticulousness to the richest ingenuity.

El Cançoner del Duc de Calàbria

Capella Reial de Catalunya
Jordi Savall
Astrée E 8582

Another lucky break in my career has been being able to work with Jordi Savall. This disc reflects his mastery in transmitting all the varied colours of the Spanish Renaissance, a repertoire he has done so much to revive.

The Scent of Time

Pedro Estevan
Glossa Nouvelle Vision
GCD 92 1002