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These are fine compositions, indicating that the composer’s reputation was well deserved. They are cohesive, interesting in the musical patterns as well as text painting, and have a finely tuned... — Fanfare, September/October 2020 More…

This recording unveils some of his most beguilingly lovely works…Baritone Romain Bockler’s rich, velvet voice captures their predominantly wistful mood, and lutenist Bor Zuljan realises their... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2019, 4 out of 5 stars More…

I can think of no piece of music that evokes more aromatically the magnificence of life at the 17th-century court of the Sun King, Louis XIV, than the scintillating Prélude to the most sumptuously... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2006, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The highlight is Foccroulle’s own completion of Praetorius’s Chorale Fantasia on ‘Durch Adams Fall’, a rare example of the genre specified for three manuals and with particularly virtuosic echo... — Choir & Organ, July 2019, 4 out of 5 stars More…