Browse: Praetorius, M (composer), Anthems & Motets

The group’s name suggests a band of wrongly imprisoned miscreants, but they make celestial sounds in Vaughan Williams’s neo-plainsong The Truth Sent from Above and Holst’s Lullay My Liking. The... — Sunday Times, 15th December 2019 More…

This excellent German vocal quintet presents seven of Martin Luther’s chorales in many versions, typically changing composers from one verse to the next... instrumental chorale preludes appear... — New York Times, 13th December 2017 More…

The Sixteen have been around so long (40 years and counting) that it is easy to take them for granted. This newly recorded Christmas disc, however, acts as a sharp reminder of the choir’s abiding... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2021, 5 out of 5 stars More…

This third instalment in Capella de la Torre’s series of the four elements is every bit as fresh and thoughtful as one would expect from one of Europe’s leading early wind ensembles...This enjoyable... — Gramophone Magazine, November 2019 More…

Joined by the lower voices of Merton College Choir, the Girl Choristers exhibit a crystalline clarity of tone in the traditional Rocking Carol, and full-voiced attack in Joubert ’s Torc he s.... — BBC Music Magazine, Chrstmas 2022, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Polychoral polyphony is all very well but it’s the simplest material that is the true measure of this recording. Martin Luther and Johann Walter’s Verlieh uns Frieden gnädiglich is a unison chant,... — Gramophone Magazine, May 2017 More…