Francesco Mancini Concerti da Camera
Purchase the Mancini CD	"Noteworthy Disc" Citation  2000 International Antonio Vivaldi Awards for Italian Early Music                   Giorgio Cini Foundation, Venice.

 
 

Sonata No. 17 in A Minor - Mancini Sonata No. 10 in B-flat Major - Mancini Sonata No. 20 in C Minor - Mancini Concerto No. 2 in G Minor- Durante Sonata No. 19 in E Minor - Mancini Sonata No. 6 in D Minor - Mancini Sinfonia No. I in A Major -Scarlatti Sonata No. 14 in G Minor - Mancini

"It's nice to have a CD with [these sonatas], especially when the performances are of such a remarkably high calibre.  I've enthused about Musica Pacifica before, and I need only say that this continues where the last one left off.   If you want to hear a recorder played well without flashy displays of self-indulgence, this will be perfect!"
- Early Music Review (UK), September 2000

CD of the Week, Australian National Radio, October 16-22, 2000.

"The music here is very exciting.  Musica Pacifica is very crisp and bright.  The performances of Linsenberg (recorder) and Blumenstock (violin) are especially tight and deeply expressive."
- American Record Guide, November/December 2000

CD of the Month,  April 2001
"Musica Pacifica is a group from the U.S. West Coast, comprised of the best of the best of the very active and excellent scene there. . . .  . . The players' list reads as a "Who's Who in the California Early Music Scene," and these are among the best in the world.  These artists are good!  . . . they have a real joy in the music that they communicate here.  This is true creativity, and it produces a most convincing musical product."
-- Alte Musik Aktuell, Regensburg, Germany

"* * * * (4 stars).  Our first impression of Musica Pacifica [from their Scarlatti disc] is confirmed here.  Refined and elegant, Linsenberg and Blumenstock enchant us.  We await their Vivaldi, already announced."
--Diapason [France], January 2001.
 

"Musica Pacifica accomplishes a work of a very high level, in the balance, articulation, ornamentation, and character of each movement.  The playing of Judith Linsenberg, especially inventive in its ornamentation, is skillfully matched in the counterpoint of the violins."
--Repertoire France, January 2001.
 

"A thumbs up to Francesco Mancini, Concerti da Camera (Dorian 93209) by Musica Pacifica, featuring elegant performances of Neapolitan baroque instrumentals from a superb, world class West Coast early music ensemble."
--Southern Voice, March 2001

"This is a model of Baroque scholarship and musical sensitivity, and this group is the most joyously entertaining of all early music specialists.  The performances have wit and passion, and the sound is phenomenally good.  What emerges is a frenetic but exquisitely measured expression of technical wizardry . . . and breathtaking results.  Each player, but especially Linsenberg and Blumenstock, exhibits a musical intelligence manifested with extraordinary rhythmic life.  An absolute MUST-HAVE for any music lover!"
--Beverly Hills Outlook, April 8, 2002.