“Performances were imposing and forthright, eschewing the polite tidiness of many baroque groups. Tempesta maintained a bit of unruliness that was more than an attractive counterweight to the music’s innate formality. The horns came through with the magnetic tension that comes from doing so much with a seemingly primitive set of circular pipes.” Philadelphia Inquirer, October 2009
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