Magdalena Kozená beguiles and enchants throughout this captivating collection. The Czech mezzo's mature voice combines radiant purity with burnished intensity and, ranging from coloratura to chest voice, she negotiates Handel's quick-fire show-pieces with dazzling bravura . . . She creates an intense emotional charge . . . Kozená's long immersion in Baroque music ensures her performances are always stylistically informed: she embellishes da capos with eloquent grace, varies her use of vibrato to heighten moments of emotional tension, and always places dramatic effect before pure beauty of sound. The musicians of Venice Baroque Orchestra respond to her incantations with thrilling energy and passion, conjuring up a wonderful array of colours and moods to create magical scene changes and theatrical transformation. All in all, the results are completely spell-binding. Record Review / Kate Bolton, BBC Music Magazine (London) / 01 November 2007

Kate Bolton, BBC Music Magazine (London) / 01 November 2007