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"Four Stars ... Daniels is magnificent ... technically brilliant ... impassioned ... lyrically supple ... as one may expect from Andrew Parrott, the instruments are very adroitly deployed and controlled." - BBC Music Magazine "... favours near-vibrato-less singers ... proper voices indeed (not the vernacular singing occasionally heard in Monteverdi) but not necessarily ones you'd typically hear in modern opera houses ... more than usual, instrumentalists are active storytelling participants." - Gramophone "... lacks thrills and grand vocal displays and the results are beautiful indeed ... the harmonies in the choruses are spotless, with the men’s voices impeccably matched; this is some of the smoothest singing I’ve ever heard ... the sound is pristine ... its poetic approach is an ideal companion to the more aggressive, later 17th and early 18th century 'operatic' readings ..." - ClassicsToday.com Andrew Parrott and the Taverner Consort and Players celebrated their 40th anniversary in 2013 with this lavishly praised double album of the world’s first operatic masterpiece, Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo. As can be expected from Andrew Parrott, who has been at the centre of the early and Baroque music scene for over four decades, his meticulous research brings a fresh perspective to the myth of love lost and found through the art of music. His scholarship, combined with the collaborative nature of the Taverners, translates into a performance brought to life by the finest vocalists and instrumentalists in the early music world, including tenor Charles Daniels singing the title role.