‘My admiration for Raymond Leppard’s edition grows at each hearing…His continuo - based realization alone can allow the freedom of declamation which the work needs – support, varied, colourful and always apt, but never dictating to the vividly dramatic utterance of the singers.’
Financial Times (Andrew Porter)
‘Raymond Leppard’s scholarly but far from academic realization of melody and bass line – all that has survived – is a miracle of empathy and fertility of imagination.’
Daily Telegraph (Peter Stadlen)
Financial Times (Andrew Porter)
‘Raymond Leppard’s scholarly but far from academic realization of melody and bass line – all that has survived – is a miracle of empathy and fertility of imagination.’
Daily Telegraph (Peter Stadlen)