Love

"the sweet pain of unrequited love and the deeper despair of lost love dominate this selection, which opens with a sublime reading of Monteverdi's 'Lamento della ninfa' in which Kermes' delivery balances perfect enunciation with beautiful abjection" The Independent, 5th March 2016 *****

"Kermes barely engages her support for much of the repertoire, preferring an intimate, white, often breathy delivery…accompaniments are treated freely, and many works are newly arranged to bring a more folky, unplugged sort of atmosphere…most successful, though, are the dramatic recitatives and ariosos that demand Kermes finally release something closer to her full voice, showing off the agility and vocal rhetoric that is her greatest strength" Gramophone Magazine, May 2016

"The evidence of [Kermes's] close sympathy with the players of La Magnifica Comunità is everywhere abundant…the sum total, powerfully original and committed in imaginative endeavour and fulfilment, is an inward-looking artistic vision…on its own terms undeniably fascinating" BBC Music Magazine, June 2016 ***

"This enjoyable album contains some splendid examples of musicianship and some other rather more idiosyncratic ones - both in terms of the orchestrations, some of the playing, and sometimes the singing. But Kermes is Kermes and always worth hearing." (MusicWeb July 2016)

"..what cannot be doubted is Kermes commitment to her art and to the theme of this program, which she delivers with quite a punch. For a pleasant hour of ravishing singing sans historical concerns, this is just the ticket." (AudAud.com)