Presto Recordings of the Year, Josquin (composer)

Phillips’s reading of the Ferrarese work is fluid and supple, and there’s a gentle momentum even in the more contemplative sections...The Scholars’ sound is lean and clear: every strand of the... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2020, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Throughout, The Gesualdo Six offer up introspective and expressive readings...There is, inevitably, a similarity of mood to these melancholy works and the cumulative effect is somewhat overwhelming,... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2024, 5 out of 5 stars More…

This is the seventh of nine projected discs in The Tallis Scholars' ongoing endeavour to record the complete Masses of Josquin des Prés. Using just nine singers gives an intimacy to these readings... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2018, 5 out of 5 stars More…

This is glorious music. — BBC Music Magazine, December 2016, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Skinner's scholarly expertise both strengthens and weakens his conducting. Cadences, modal shifts and points of imitation steer his reading. Especially when the English Cornett & Sackbutt Ensemble... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2015, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The quartet sound itself combines a lovely rich sonority with a tremendous span of weight, timbre and attack...Beautiful stuff, while also being something you can get your intellectual teeth... — Gramophone Magazine, August 2024 More…

Superbly recorded, it is a masterclass in outstanding breadth of interpretation, balance and total teamwork … the group’s ‘worker’s co-operative’ ethos continues to reap dividends with, on this... — Choir & Organ, November 2014 More…