CD, Lassus (composer)
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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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The high point is the vocalists' searching and sublime rendering of the Benedicta es motet with its Magnificat. You may have to find your own reasons for listening to eight Magnificats with... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2026, Nominated - Early Music
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Orlando Di Lasso: Officia Aliquot de Præcipuis Festis Anni - Pentecostes
Lassus Chamber Choir, Ite O’donovan
Director Ite O'Donovan and her Dublin-based Lassus Chamber Choir approach the music with palpable devotion...Throughout, the choir's warm, velvet-soft tone and finely blended ensemble create... —
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Their style of singing – perfectly blended vocal harmony, exquisite tuning, inventive phrasing, delicately poised textural clarity - provides a magical accompaniment to the warmth of the Christmas... —
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BBC Music Magazine, Christmas Issue 2023, Recording of the Month
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As an album it radiates an inventive glee similar to Uri Caine’s Goldberg Variations (Winter & Winter, 10/00). Consider the Ikea-esque build-your-own-motet approach of Super flumina Babylonis. —
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Gramophone Awards, 2025 Shortlist, Early Music
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From this showing, Cinquecento would be well placed to advocate Vaet further. An all-male a cappella ensemble, they sound clear and bright, and articulate the music lucidly —
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It is a mixed choir of 15 voices which work together splendidly, even if Lassus rarely uses the different ranges to enhance the meaning of the text...An insightful, rewarding and musical recording. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2026, Nominated - Early Music
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Unaccompanied, the Monteverdi Choir goes back to its roots in a programme which harnesses scholarship and singing of breathtaking beauty. —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2007, Choral Finalist
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2006, Choral & Song Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2007, Editor's Choice
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The Brabant Ensemble has a well-deserved reputation for the exploration of little-known musical gems. They do not disappoint here; from among Lassus's 2000 works we are served up an enterprising... —
