CD, Sheppard, J (composer)
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Sweet tuning and subtle dynamic distinctions mark James MacMillan’s Ave maris stella, with gleamingly pure-toned contributions from the soprano…Technically the most difficult piece is probably... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2018, Choral & Song Choice
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Presto Editor's Choice, May 2018
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2018, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2019, Finalist - Choral
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2019, Winner - Choral
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Gramophone Awards, 2019, Finalist - Choral
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Limelight Magazine Recordings of the Year, 2018, Winner - Vocal/Choral
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Sheppard (c.1515-58) was certainly an ingenious and interesting composer as this revelatory recording amply demonstrates…[The Missa Cantate] is performed here with clarity, poise and excellent... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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The line-up might play safe, but it’s all exquisitely done, collegiate smoothness and blend to the fore. And what blend! The harmonic voicing is immaculate yet always sensitive to the imperatives... — More…
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Already in Gibbons’s Drop, Drop, Slow, Tears there are numerous indications of the elevated artistry of Paul McCreesh and the 22 singers of his Gabrieli Consort. — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2012, Disc of the month
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Contrapunctus really knows what to do with these pieces and from the very first item...the tuning is superb and the ensemble rock solid. Moreover, Owen Rees's interpretations are revelatory... — More…
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Sunday Times, 2015, Albums of the Year
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2015, Choral & Song Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2015, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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Special offer. Sheppard: Sacred choral music
Choir of St Mary’s Cathedral, Edinburgh, Duncan Ferguson
Perhaps the most striking feature of this recording from the Choir of St Mary's Cathedral Edinburgh is the way in which the trebles seem perfectly integrated within the ensemble...The rest of... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2014, Editor's Choice
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Peace I Leave With You - Music for the Evening Hour
Sebastian Hill (tenor), Milo Hodgkiss (tenor), Peter Brooks (bass-baritone), Alexander Pott, Benjamin Watkins (bass-baritone), Francis Brown (bass-baritone), Henry Isaacs, Maurice Cole (tenor)
Choir of Magdalen College Oxford, Mark Williams
Among the contemporary offerings, the always responsive, well-integrated choral forces bring a serene, reverential simplicity to John Tavener’s setting of The Lord’s Prayer and in Roxanna Panufnik's... — More…
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The Sweetest Songs: Music from the Baldwin Partbooks III
Alice Hulett, Ruth Provost, David Gould
Contrapunctus, Owen Rees
They are in cracking form here, with no discernible weak link in the ensemble: honey-toned and purposeful sopranos, assertive countertenors and everything on down to match. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2021, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Early Music
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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... — More…
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Instrumentalist of the Year
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English Renaissance Music
A recital which contrasts the inspirational work of Thomas Tallis, Christopher Tye and John Sheppard
David James (countertenor), Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor), Steven Harrold (tenor), Gordon Jones (baritone) & Robert Macdonald (bass)
The Hilliard Ensemble
The ensemble is flawless and the sound reproduction crystalline. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2008, Editor's Choice
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