Dacapo

The bass Jakob Bloch Jespersen is finely cast as Jesus, his voice and range sonorous and his pacing thoughtful and restrained. The 12-voice choir plays the role of disciples, high priests and... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2009, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Listening to Per Nørgård's Libra, you wonder how a composer could write music that at once sounds so invitingly familiar and utterly mysterious...between the Danish National Vocal Ensemble's... — Gramophone Magazine, January 2013 More…

[Vox Reportage] can seem uncomfortably close to a virtuoso demonstration of the manifold noises top chamber choirs are capable of creating nowadays…It left me a little unsettled and enervated,... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The score similarly weaves a deft path between the modernist and antique, with echoes of Tippett and Stravinsky matched by passages of medieval restraint. The performance is exceptional, with... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2015, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Paul Hillier paces the narrative subtly, from down-to-earth description to slow contemplation...The singers, admirably matched, are helped by the church acoustic, which warms the tone without... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2010, 5 out of 5 stars More…