Love's madness

"Vurdering: Ugens cd" - "Det er en spændende og alsidig cd Dorothee Mields og de berlinske eksperter i tidlig musik har sammensat. Samtidig med at sangene på Ugens Cd har en tematisk sammenhæng, får vi også et veloplagt og velspillet indblik i England på Purcells tid ... Gennem hele cd'en veksler Purcells sange med folkesange og instrumentalmusik fra samtiden".

"Mields has a fine, conventional voice for this kind of music - pure, pretty and with clear, largely correct English - and she enters into the spirit to the point of the odd deranged cackle, sob or moan ... Ultimately they seem more like the kind of adaptations you might hear in a modern staging of a Restoration play than a reflection of the 17th-century sound world".

"This is a disc which I expected to like far more than has been the case. The producer and engineer have almost obliterated my enjoyment factor ... For Dorothee Mields I shall turn elsewhere".