01-03-2022 American Record Guide
"Listeners who are looking for a selection of the best-known Bach cantatas rather than an exhaustive traversal may find this new series attractive.
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01-03-2022 Fanfare Magazine
"If I assume that most readers prefer historically informed performances, period instruments, and adult singers, all of these three completists will please, and this generous collection can be recommended with pleasure.
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03-01-2022 Ritmo
"Koopman saves the exam with very good note, proposing a very balanced and stylistically current reading of Bach
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12-12-2021 Classiquenews.com
"Magnificent spiritual fullness in the early 1990s. It is a reminder of what the legendary conductor and harpsichordist achieved, more than 25 years ago now, a mastery which is a major act of sincerity...
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27-12-2017 Kerk & Leven
"This catchy CD should encourage every parish in Flanders to make Christmas time also musically attractive. In the dark days of December, this recording of beautiful traditional Christmas songs in the vernacular is simply a bright spot."
06-07-2017 Fanfare Magazine
"If you don’t already have Koopman’s masses and Magnificat, here’s your chance to correct that deficiency."
01-03-2017 Gramophone
"A prime selling point here is the premiere recording of an early version of the soprano cantata Tu fedel? Tu costante?, HWV171a, unearthed in Ton Koopman’s private manuscript collection."
20-12-2016 Pizzicato
"Despite the presence of good soloists and a fine recording technique, this is a most disappointing production, since Ton Koopman’s conducting badly lacks inspiration.
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09-03-2015 Toccata
"A worthy ending of an impressive monument for a great baroque master. "
06-11-2014 Het Parool
"5***** stars
Buxthehude is formidable.[….] Mission accomplished. This is a precious possession for eternity.”"
31-10-2014 Trouw
""Koopman has done a monumental act with this project."
"Koopman presents the works with his famous 'schwung' and rhythmical passion.""
31-10-2014 Trouw
"4**** stars
“A monumental achievement Koopman has made with this project.[….] And everything is again impeccably recorded by Koopmans wife Tini Mathot and Adriaan Verstijnen.”"
01-09-2014 Toccata
"The from Koopman intiated and realised projekt - the recording of the complete works of Dietrich Buxtehude - is one of the most important ones of the last years."
15-08-2014 The Guardian
"Koopman varies them intelligently in this sequence of 10 numbers, and the performances have the unfussy directness that one associates with his music-making"
01-08-2014 Choir & Organ
"The excellent instrumentalists are supplemented by good solo singers, whose clarity of diction and expressive phrasing and dynamics are supported by fluent tempi and solid rhythmic direction."
01-05-2014 Gramophone
"Any fears that the concluding volume might be an assortment of odds and ends are unwarranted (the little six-part canon is rather lovely)."
01-12-2013 Early Music Review
"These two discs mix the well-known with the obscure, and the small-scale with the grandiose in glorious performances that serve only to remind us what a great composer Buxtehude was, no matter to which medium he has turned his hand."
21-10-2013 www.opusklassiek.nl
""In the meantime, enjoy this latest episode that again excels in instrumental and vocal splendor on the basis of coherence, balance, diction, phrasing, rhythmic foundation, fantastic panorama that unfolds through a phenomenal insight into what was there and what was to come""
01-03-2012 Early Music Today
"Buxtehude's contemplative, sophisticated enslemble music, beautifully rendered by Koopman and his players, gives equal prominence to vocal and instrumental parts, and the two are expertly balanced."
Grammophone
"The Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra's playing, in particular the shapely violin ritornelli, is delightful."