Download, Palestrina (composer)
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Rondeau’s interpretations of this music suggest that for the likes of Haydn, Clementi, Beethoven and Debussy, harpsichord sonorities were very much in their mind’s ear. In particular, Rondeau’s... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2023, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2023 Finalists, Shortlisted - Instrumental
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2023
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This is a glorious addition to the Monteverdi 450 celebrations. — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 28th April 2017
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2017, Disc of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Finalist - Choral
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…the superb singers of Stile Antico are up to the challenge of presenting all the required moods from pious restraint… to melting abandon… a magnificent display of the very best kind of polyphonic... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2009, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2009, Winner - Early Music
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The Clare College Choir is fairly substantial and they sing in a harmonious and touching manner, as in their reverent account of the chordal textures of Palestrina’s Magnificat and Byrd’s Emendemus... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 10th January 2025
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Here is a deeply satisfying, centuries-spanning, thought-provoking debut album by the fine choral ensemble Echo...The highlight of the album is Howard Skempton’s luminous Yeats setting ‘He wishes... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2024, Choral & Song Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2024
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2025, Shortlisted - Premiere
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This year is (probably) the 500th anniversary of Palestrina’s birth and there will doubtless be quite a few recordings of his works in the following months. Few efforts will be better than these... — More…
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Unaccompanied, the Monteverdi Choir goes back to its roots in a programme which harnesses scholarship and singing of breathtaking beauty. — More…
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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 exotic harmonies in both expose the family resemblance between the styles of the two composers (though Gesualdo is even more experimental in his secular music) and the Monteverdi Choir is... — More…
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The drama and flamboyant colours of Baroque Rome's art and architecture and wonderfully present in this reconstruction of its sacred music. This recording's breadth of moods, devices and styles... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2011, Choral & Song Choice
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Special offer. Orazio Benevoli: Missa Tu Es Petrus
RecommendedI Fagiolini (early music ensemble), the City Musick, Robert Hollingworth
Recorded here in the round, with a battery of instruments enriching the vocal ensembles, the work engulfs the senses just as it must have done in Benevoli’s day in the echoing spaces of St Peter's. — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2024, Recording of the Week
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