Browse: Ensemble Organum (early music ensemble)

Ensemble Organum’s Easter vespers chants are characteristically supple, but it’s a lightbulb moment when the eponymous two-part textures emerge, sonorous, timeless – a window on another world. — BBC Music Magazine, April 2020, 4 out of 5 stars More…

This blend of voices lends the ensemble a rich, varied edge that is most welcome in this repertoire, and vocalist Rachid El Mazzaoui must be singled out for his soaring solo account of Psalm... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2021, 3 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

An extraordinary hypnotic account of music from 12-century Jerusalem associated with the Templars, sung with vigour by Ensemble Organum. — BBC Music Magazine, April 2019, 4 out of 5 stars More…

This is a compelling, richly ornamented account of the earliest known polyphonic mass by a named composer; exquisite, otherworldly harmonies and eternal words, delivered with clarity, passion... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2019, 5 out of 5 stars More…

12th-century music associated with the veneration of St James at Santiago de Compostela’s cathedral. Characterful vocalism from the eight male voices, including the spectacular basso profundo... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2019, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Low pitch, chest voice performances shorn of ethereal trappings from Marcel Peres’s seven female singers. For those of an ascetic disposition. — BBC Music Magazine, March 2019, 3 out of 5 stars More…