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This is a recording that was waiting to happen: to do full justice to Ockeghem's famous Mass designed for performance 'on whatever tone you choose', you really need to hear several complete versions... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010
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Gramophone Magazine
February 2008
Editor's Choice
With the Missa cuiusvis toni, Ockeghem achieves a veritable
tour de force: a work having the advantage of being able to be
executed in all church modes. In an era when composers vied
with each other in virtuosity, this mass 'in whatever tone'
became an unsurpassable model. Musica Nova recreates the
four versions here for the first time on disc.
2010
This is a recording that was waiting to happen: to do full justice to Ockeghem's famous Mass designed for performance 'on whatever tone you choose', you really need to hear several complete versions side by side, and this is the first to present it that way. What's more, Ensemble Musica Nova's performances are technically superior to any that have been committed to disc so far.
February 2008
Ensemble Musica Nova are a mixed choir singing two-to-a-part in a sympathetic acoustic that allows for contrapuntal clarity and a sound image at once warm and bright…the music is glorious...[the Ensemble] presents various complete versions of the Ockeghem Mass alongside each other. So if you can’t get enough of this Mass, here is your ideal answer. As variations on a theme, as it were, it’s a fascinating and rewarding exercise. The performances are excellent; one for the collection.
