The Brabant Ensemble
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Gombert - Tribulatio et angustias
Four- & five-part motets
The Brabant Ensemble, Stephen Rice (director)
This is the first disc to focus on the core of Gombert, his motets. What we know of his troubled life and extant music suggests that he was not a 'Laetentur coeli' sort of composer, and so the... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2008, Finalist - Early Music
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2007, Editor's Choice
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the music here is exceptionally varied, often florid and requiring no little agility. Its not insubstantial challenges are masterfully met by the admirable Brabant Ensemble. —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2025, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2025 Shortlist, Early Music
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An important contribution to our understanding of the ‘gentle master musician’…Stephen Rice brings perceptive musical insights to these accounts, and also sheds light on Févin’s idiom in the... —
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BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2018, Choral & Song Choice
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The centrepiece of the recording, the Guidez vous Mass, in an inspired choice. From the clamorous lines of the opening Kyrie with their spicy harmonic clashes, through the superbly portrayed... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2007, Editor's Choice
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Moulu's idiom is pleasingly inventive and immediately engaging. As to the performances, they work very nicely...the music itself so clearly deserves to be heard. —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2010, Editor's Choice
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Crecquillon - Missa Mort m’a privé and chansons & motets
The Brabant Ensemble, Stephen Rice (director)
Stephen Rice and his Brabant Ensemble deserve thanks… for bringing to our ears a composer much admired and taken as a model by others, including Monteverdi… the final Easter motet, depicting... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2007, Finalist - Early Music
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Specially edited for this performance, the Missa Surge Petre is lusciously scored for six parts, each of them lucidly etched in this beautifully shaped account…with its striking opposition of... —
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2015, Choral & Song Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Shortlisted - Early Music
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[In the Regina coeli] the singers enliven the texture with their nuanced renderings of the marvellous contrapuntal connections, and the recording make the most of the double-choir effects in... —
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Salve celeberrima virgo receives a consummately-crafted reading, its tangy false relations’ never exaggerated or attention-seeking. The Mass, too, opens with a poised precision, every note suspended... —
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The Brabant Ensemble is very experienced in this type of repertory, and achieves some magical effects in the Doulce memoire Mass...Of the motets O altitudino divitiarum is a truly outstanding... —
