Browse: Compère (composer)

From the outset, performing with one voice to a part, the malevoice ensemble The Gesualdo Six brings the intimacy and detail of consort music to these accounts...Throughout the programme, the... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2021, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars(Recording) More…

Not surprisingly, this is unrelentingly austere stuff. If, however, choral gloom is your bag, it is also an imaginatively programmed recital, immaculately sung and recorded in superb sound. — BBC Music Magazine, June 2021, 5 out of 5 stars More…

There is no denying the beauty of the performances here. Kirkman’s group … pour forth a golden stream of polyphonic textures captured in close and careful sound — American Record Guide More…

This is only the third anthology devoted to Loyset Compère, whose 500th death-anniversary falls next year; but it is a fitting commemoration, for both music and performance are on a pleasingly... — Gramophone Magazine, November 2017 More…

outstanding realisations of Mouton's wonderful music...clarity is achieved notwithstanding his mathematical methods, and it's a quality that's brought out superbly by the Tallis Scholars and... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2012, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The poetic French chansons included here intoxicated the European courts and cities with their ravishingly wistful melodies, delicately intertwined. Gothic Voices and veteran harpist Andrew Lawrence-King... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas Issue 2022, 5 out of 5 stars More…

This performance imagines them being sung in a 16th-century nunnery, so Brumel’s original low-voice scoring is transposed for female singers, with an organ and a viol providing lower parts. The... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2020, 3 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

The group seems most at home in the sacred pieces, the Magnificat and O bone Jesu, where their harmonious, 'choral' sound can be put to good use...We owe a debt of gratitude to the Orlando Consort... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2015, 4 out of 5 stars More…