REVIEWS

“King exhibiting her pleasingly resonant timbre with great assurance in ‘Zum reinen Wasser’ from Cantata 112; this is where her sense of linguistic colour and unequivocal commitment to the paraphrase of Psalm 23, ‘he leads me beside the still waters’, is most infectiously conveyed.”
Bach: Arias / Linn CD / The Gramophone

“Catherine King singing ravishingly…”
Dowland: Lachrimae / Naxos CD / Early Music Review

“Catherine King is a splendid singer of the songs here. She is unaffectedly sensitive to the mood of each (Lasso vita mia is a delight) and clear in tone.”
Dowland: Lachrimae / Naxos CD / The Gramophone

"Catherine King sings stunningly on her new disc of Baldassare Galuppi arias with Il Canto di Orfeo. She's got an amazing range. There are moments when her voice is completely recognisable because it's just as she speaks, and there are other times when she can be tremendously operatic."
Galuppi: Forgotten Arias / Avie CD / Emma Kirkby in BBC Music Magazine

"King's fruity mezzo does justice to the extravagantly inventive writing."
Galuppi: Forgotten Arias / Avie CD / Classic fM

"...le mezzo agile et habité de Catherine King rend justice aux arias galuppiens. Même dans les passages acrobatiques, la voix s'accroche et tient bon : elle a visiblement à coeur de défendre l'embrasement passionnel d'une musique qu'une première écoute, étiquetterait comme suave et agréable... sans plus."
Galuppi: Forgotten Arias / Avie CD / Classique News

"Catherine King sings these attractive arias with firm, clear tone (her predominantly 'straight' sound selectively warmed with vibrato), elegant phrasing and agile, precise coloratura. She is splendidly vehement in the virtuoso castrato aria "Benché giusto a vendicarmi" from Antigono, tenderly musing in "Voi che languite", and smoothly negotiates the wide leaps between registers in the Scipione aria."
Galuppi: Forgotten Arias / Avie CD / Gramophone

"Catherine King is anything but the anaemic thin-voiced creature one sometimes associates with the baroque. Hers is a large vibrant voice with superb technique, wide range and an almost animal intensity in the more forceful music...She throws herself wholeheartedly into the text music with marvelously assured singing. There are obviously no technical obstacles for her."
Galuppi: Forgotten Arias / Avie CD / Musicweb International

"Catherine King sings the arias with a firm, incisive mezzo and an exciting interpretive manner. She seems to revel both in the music's technical challenges, for which she has the requisite range and agility, and in the prospect of convincing the listener of the music's value."
Galuppi: Forgotten Arias / Avie CD / Opera

"The mezzo-soprano performs seven arias, covering a wide range, from deep emotions to exalted heights, which are so well prepared, that the pure beauty of King's voice can be revealed without blemish."
Galuppi: Forgotten Arias / Avie CD / Fono Forum

“King reveals a wide–ranging mezzo of considerable power…”
Vitige: Flavio / Early Opera Company / The Guardian

“…her account of Vitige’s jealousy aria, ‘Sirti, scoglio, tempeste’ was particularly fine.”
Vitige: Flavio / Early Opera Company / mvdaily.com

“King’s mezzo rose with the sun to a central ecstasy of melody for which not even the beauty of earlier pieces by Hildegard had prepared us.”
Hildegard of Bingen / Spitalfields Festival / The Times

“Catherine King, with her agile, velvety mezzo–soprano voice, is an ideal interpreter of these refined and charming songs”
Milán: Songs and Solos / ASV CD / Alte Musik Aktuell

“Catherine King has a voice that many singers would die — or even kill for. It is absolutely flawless, stunningly accurate, and its quality has a uniformity across the range that would make any other singer spit.”
Milán: Songs and Solos / ASV CD / Early Music Review

"The vibrancy of the other voices - notably Yvette Bonner's Euridice, Sally Harrison's La Musica, Della Jones's La Messaggiera and Catherine King's La Speranza - added to a memorable night."
La Musica: L'Orfeo / English Bach Festival Trust / The Financial Times

“…the sheer beauty of sound here is profoundly moving. Through six verses of a melody which has haunted me for days, King subtly increases the decoration and intensifies the emotion…A superb disc I’ve found compulsive listening.”
Airs de Cour / Linn CD / BBC Music Magazine ‘Pick of the Month’

“Catherine King sings beautifully.”
Airs de Cour / Linn CD / Classic CD

“The voice of the mezzo–soprano Catherine King is warm and involving and her musical sensitivity exquisite.”
Airs de Cour / Linn CD / Goldberg

“Catherine King, in particular, was in spectacular form, with her superbly expressive tone lending just the right degree of passion and emotional depth to the texts.”
Intavolatura de li madrigali / Wigmore Hall / Early Music Review

“Catherine King’s mezzo–soprano effortlessly shouldered some of what have now become Hildegard’s greatest hits. ‘Then your walls blaze with living stones’ she sang in
O Jerusalem: words and music melded, the vocal line soaring, the tone burnished.”
The Times