Browse: Choral, Christmas Carols, Praetorius, M (composer)

The group’s name suggests a band of wrongly imprisoned miscreants, but they make celestial sounds in Vaughan Williams’s neo-plainsong The Truth Sent from Above and Holst’s Lullay My Liking. The... — Sunday Times, 15th December 2019 More…

Lionel Meunier’s assured direction never misses (nor overstates) an expressive trick; and Vox Luminis’s warmly inflected singing is throughout finely-attuned to the way in which every note has... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2017, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The Sixteen have been around so long (40 years and counting) that it is easy to take them for granted. This newly recorded Christmas disc, however, acts as a sharp reminder of the choir’s abiding... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2021, 5 out of 5 stars More…

All the popular selections…sound notably relaxed and idiomatic, the choir's stylistic versatility confidently demonstrated. — BBC Music Magazine, December 2015, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Joined by the lower voices of Merton College Choir, the Girl Choristers exhibit a crystalline clarity of tone in the traditional Rocking Carol, and full-voiced attack in Joubert ’s Torc he s.... — BBC Music Magazine, Chrstmas 2022, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The singing, all unaccompanied, has a natural, unforced eloquence, and is of a standard which makes criticism an impertinence. An outstandingly accompanied issue. — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas Issue 2013, 5 out of 5 stars More…

[Praetorius is] a composer virtually made to herald the joy of the Christmas season. The two sets of his music here...make no attempt to reconstruct actual services. Rather, Jeannette Sorrell... — New York Times, 25th November 2015 More…