Choral, Allegri (composer)
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Allegri: Miserere & Palestrina: Missa Papae Marcelli
Andrew Carwood, Deborah Roberts, Sally Dunkley, Caroline Trevor & Donald Greig
The Tallis Scholars, Peter Phillips
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... —
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One doesn’t often find Thomas Tallis, Edward Elgar and John Tavener sandwiching Massive Attack, but the lovely Teardrop works astonishingly well in this mixed programme devoted to the concept... —
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A new piece by Lapwood herself, Arise, Shine, opens the album, showcasing the Pembroke Chapel Choir's easeful unanimity of diction, and its warmly blended tonal profile. —
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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... —
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2011, Choral & Song Choice
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This is one of the best programmes that I have encountered in recent years, both in concept and execution, and it begins with an icon of early music, Allegri’s Miserere…The singers of Le Poème... —
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Diapason d’Or, October 2019, Nouveauté
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2019, Recording of the Month
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Baroque Vocal
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2019, Critics' Choice
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Not the Live 1994 Palestrina 400 concert in Rome, but the 1980 Merton College recording. Then as now, the chaste 'finish' of the Allegri is overshadowed by a compellingly contoured Missa Papae... —
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1980s
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Palestrina: Missa Papae Marcelli, Missa Aeterna Christi Munera & Stabat mater
RecommendedOxford Schola Cantorum, Oxford Camerata, Jeremy Summerly
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Building a Library, January 2015, First Choice
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In Sorrow's Footsteps
Music by Gabriel Jackson, Palestrina, Allegri and James MacMillan
The Marian Consort, Rory McCleery
The sharp, jabbing gestures at the opening of Gabriel Jackson’s new setting of the Stabat Mater…announce that wilting introspection is by no means the composer’s default position in his response... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, July 2018
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The programme is a potpourri, and one from which emanates the refined scent of the collegiate choir, à la King's or Trinity. The tuning is impeccable, the blend unimpeachable. Director Nigel... —
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2006, Choral & Song Choice
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