Browse: Phinot (composer)

The big surprise here is the impressive quality of the Christmas piece Haec Dies by the otherwise unknown Joahannes Sarton and which attracts a commendably persuasive and alert interpretation... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2022, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The 13 youthful voices of Siglo de Oro produce a fresh, ingenuous sound. Their timbre is open and expressive – the use of vibrato adding a tremulous urgency to some of the more emotive passages.... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2020, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Willaert’s piece, in particular, is achingly beautiful: for this alone, it is worth buying this very fine disc. — Stephen Pettitt, Sunday Times, 13 January 2002, 3 out of 5 stars More…

…this gorgeous package is like a CD-sized hardback book, full of beautiful medieval paintings and photographs of surviving gardens. …performances are of the high standard expected from the Orlando... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2006, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The centrepiece is the triptych by John Duggan...Susanna Fairbairn and Robert Vanryne duet sweetly in the first 'panel'...Another high point is John Mundy's De Lamentatione, reconstructed by... — Gramophone Magazine, September 2013 More…

Phillips pounces on all the details that matter: dissonances crunch satisfactorily, imitative points are tightly nested, and light streams through thick homophony…The choir is fresh-sounding,... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2019, 4 out of 5 stars More…