...Eureka: irresistible performances of sublime music from unknown composers... : "If you, like me, enjoy trawling the “road less travelled”, at least in the musical sense, then you will know the “Eureka moment”. You spend days, weeks, perhaps even months, listening to the works of little known composers, hearing nothing but second or third rank music, justifying the obscurity of their creators. Then, all that counts for nothing: you hear something quite extraordinary, and like Archimedes in his bath, you experience the Eureka moment. This disc is one such moment. There is a great variety of moods – fast, thrilling, flowing, wistful – throughout the seventeen pieces so there is no need to be concerned that it will “all sound the same”, a criticism I have heard levelled at this type of music from some who clearly haven’t listened to it properly. With a longest run time of less than eight minutes, none outstays its welcome. If I was to recommend three pieces that illustrate the virtues of this CD, they would be Arrigoni’s Sonata a 5, Merula’s Canzon and Neri’s Sonata a 6. Suffice to say that if you are interested in this type of music, don’t hesitate, but those who aren’t sure might find the following paragraph interesting. ...their style is bold but not harsh, dramatic but not rushed. I made the disc one of my Records of the Year, included it in my Classic Classics, and began to investigate the genre.
David Barker - MUSICWEB INTERNATIONAL, June 2009