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Striggio: Mass in 40 Parts (Missa Ecco si Beato Giorno)
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I Fagiolini, Robert Hollingworth
The instruments transfigure much of this music. They do the heavy lifting for some of the choir parts in the Mass and Ecce beatum lucem, contribute to the spacious sonorities, and add delicate... — More…
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Western Wind
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Music By John Taverner & Court Music For Henry VIII
Emily Van Evera (soprano), Charles Daniels (tenor)
Taverner Choir & Players, Andrew Parrott
The Western Wynde Mass nicely contrasts with The Tallis Scholars’ recording, being incisive and brisk where Peter Phillips’s reading is smoother and more leisurely. Parrott is perhaps more persuasive... — More…
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Offer, Veni Domine
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Advent & Christmas from the Sistine Chapel
Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo)
Sistine Chapel Choir, Massimo Palombella
Everything here is sung with extreme subtlety and a delicacy which rather confounded my expectations. Palombella (who, like all his predecessors in the role, is ordained in Holy Orders) clearly... — More…
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The Tallis Scholars Sing Josquin
The Tallis Scholars, Peter Phillips
The performances - and the music - are highly distinguished...However, a word of warning is appropriate: the music is addictive and once you have sampled it in these exquisite performances you... — More…
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Da Pacem: Echo der Reformation
RIAS Kammerchor, Capella de la Torre
Polychoral polyphony is all very well but it’s the simplest material that is the true measure of this recording. Martin Luther and Johann Walter’s Verlieh uns Frieden gnädiglich is a unison chant,... — More…
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This is absolutely superb. We must accept that Josquin is unlikely to have heard this music with two women on the top line, but they do it so well that only a fundamentalist would mark the disc... — More…
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Christmas Music from Medieval and Renaissance Europe
The Sixteen, Harry Christophers
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The Tallis Scholars sing Palestrina
The Tallis Scholars, Peter Phillips
Recorded in various apt acoustics, the performances in this compendium combine tonal clarity with fluidity. An excellent introduction to Palestrina. — More…
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Ranging from plainchant and motets to 17th Century dialogues and contemporary carol settings, it sounds like it may come across as a bit of a hotchpotch. But it doesn’t at all and with singing... — More…
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From the vaults of Westminster Cathedral
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A procession of chant & polyphony from Advent to Christmas & the Epiphany and Presentation of our Lord
Matthew Martin (organ accompaniment), & Martin Baker (organ improvisations)
The Choir of Westminster Cathedral, Martin Baker
Epiphany brings Monteverdi's Messa a 4 da cappella, whose polyphonic complexities elicit a confidently assertive response from the choir, with fine internal balances between the voice sections. — More…
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