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Josquin: Masses
RecommendedHercules Dux Ferrarie, D'ung aultre amer & Missa Faysant regretz
The Tallis Scholars, Peter Phillips
Phillips’s reading of the Ferrarese work is fluid and supple, and there’s a gentle momentum even in the more contemplative sections...The Scholars’ sound is lean and clear: every strand of the... —
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Record Review, 7th November 2020, Record of the Week
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2020, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2021, Winner - Choral
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2021, Recording of the Year
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Winner - Early Music
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Throughout, The Gesualdo Six offer up introspective and expressive readings...There is, inevitably, a similarity of mood to these melancholy works and the cumulative effect is somewhat overwhelming,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2024, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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Sunday Times, 20 Best Classical Albums of 2024
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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... —
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Gramophone Awards, 1987, Recording of the Year
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Gramophone Awards, 1987, Winner - Early Music
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Josquin des Prés: Masses - Gaudeamus; L'ami Baudichon
RecommendedThe Tallis Scholars, Peter Phillips
This is the seventh of nine projected discs in The Tallis Scholars' ongoing endeavour to record the complete Masses of Josquin des Prés. Using just nine singers gives an intimacy to these readings... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2018, Choral. & Song Choice
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Diapason d’Or, January 2019, Nouveauté
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Josquin Desprez: Baisiez Moy
thélème, Jean-Christophe Groffe, Ludovic Van Hellemont, Nicolas Buzzi, Matthieu Romanens, Simon MacHale, Luís Neiva
This would be a terrific Christmas present for your Josquin-fan friend. Not only are the performances all on an extremely high level but there are quite a lot of pieces here that you cannot... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Early Music
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Winner - Early Music
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From the outset, performing with one voice to a part, the malevoice ensemble The Gesualdo Six brings the intimacy and detail of consort music to these accounts...Throughout the programme, the... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2021, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Early Music
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The famed King’s Singers attention to pin-point pitching, slick ensemble, and deft balances between the voices are present in abundance. The two Beatles arrangements are particularly successful…The... —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2017, Editor's Choice
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Grammy Awards, 61st Awards (2019), Nominee - Classical Compendium
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Early Music
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Gramophone Awards, 2023 Finalists, Shortlisted - Early Music
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The centrepiece here is Ockeghem's L'homme armé Mass. It may be one of his earliest Masses, dating perhaps from the early 1450s. It's also one of his most curious. For the most part it lies... —
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Skinner's scholarly expertise both strengthens and weakens his conducting. Cadences, modal shifts and points of imitation steer his reading. Especially when the English Cornett & Sackbutt Ensemble... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2015, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Gramophone Awards, 2015, Winner - Early Music
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