Composers: Add
Compositions: Marcello, Vinci, Gasparini, Sarro, Leo, Handel
Performers: Magdalena Kožená ms,
Collegium 1704/Václav Luks
Catalogue Number: Pentatone PTC5186725

The Czech mezzo-soprano Magdalena Kožená returns to the baroque in her latest album, music for which she’s uniquely suited and which has always shown her off at her best. Time has barely touched her elegant, silvery voice, which has retained much of its richness and enviable evenness across the registers, and her interpretive instincts remain as sharp as ever. In happy partnership with Collegium 1704 under Václav Luks, she takes audiences through a captivating program of secular music, much of...