Browse: Hi Res Download, Palestrina (composer)

Niquet appropriately creates a liturgical framework, weaving plainchant, motets and instrumental items around the main work; these also serve to contrast with and complement the sometimes gluttonously... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2018, 5 out of 5 stars/4 out of 5 stars More…

All receive performances of exquisite subtlety and clarity, and the Consort captures perfectly Stanford’s Beati quorum via, whose closing passage is one of the most beautiful in the English choral... — Sunday Times, 21st May 2023, 4 out of 5 stars More…

It is a stunning album, intelligently paced, and the performances teem in subtle musicality and softly spoken charisma. — Gramophone Magazine, February 2023 More…

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... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2023, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Having thoroughly internalised this music, Phillips creates a reading of great authority. The greatest contrast between the two Merton College recordings… is the choir's sound: this now commands... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2007, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Christophers artfully moulds and heightens the contours of the polyphonic lines, which ebb and flow in a liquid tapesty of sound...The Sixteen's rich, buttery sound is particularly effective... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2015, 5 out of 5 stars More…