Browse: CD, Gombert (composer)

The Ensemble Clément Janequin have been issuing top-quality discs of 16th-century music for almost 40 years: even if the only member now left over from the original group is the countertenor... — Gramophone Magazine, July 2021 More…

The landscape angle is slightly odd…Luckily some real landscaping can be heard in Hesdin’s motet ‘Parasti’ where the performers shape the form and contour the dynamics splendidly. — BBC Music Magazine, July 2022, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 3 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

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 14 works recorded here make for a rich and heady mix and we should be grateful to Digby and her superb ORA Singers for what proves to be a fascinating musical journey. Digby coaxes a simply... — Choir & Organ, July 2019, 5 out of 5 stars More…

They incorporate instrumental elaborations and add ornaments to the individual lines. In a piece such as Parfons regretz. this allows the singer of a particular part to sing as though responding... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2022, 4 out of 5 stars More…

This is the first disc to focus on the core of Gombert, his motets. What we know of his troubled life and extant music suggests that he was not a 'Laetentur coeli' sort of composer, and so the... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

The 18 uninterrupted minutes of Copland's a cappella In the Beginning are a major test of any choir's stamina and concentration, and it's one the Mertonians pass with confidence...[Beth Mackay]... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2011, 4 out of 5 stars More…