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Cristóbal de Morales - Magnificat, Motets & Lamentations RecommendedThe Brabant Ensemble, Stephen Rice
The young Oxford choir turns its immaculate ensemble, lucid diction and faultless tuning to the Spanish composer Morales. His Lamentations flow with exquisite sadness … the lines blend like... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 25th August 2008
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Gramophone Awards, 2009, Finalist - Early Music
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An important contribution to our understanding of the ‘gentle master musician’…Stephen Rice brings perceptive musical insights to these accounts, and also sheds light on Févin’s idiom in the... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2018, Choral & Song Choice
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The performers manage to give these ‘dark meanderings’ some shape and purpose with contrasts of mood…vigorous interplay between the voices…and some surprising musica ficta harmonies…They are... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, December 2017
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Crecquillon - Missa Mort m’a privé and chansons & motets The Brabant Ensemble, Stephen Rice (director)
Stephen Rice and his Brabant Ensemble deserve thanks… for bringing to our ears a composer much admired and taken as a model by others, including Monteverdi… the final Easter motet, depicting... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2007, Finalist - Early Music
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Specially edited for this performance, the Missa Surge Petre is lusciously scored for six parts, each of them lucidly etched in this beautifully shaped account…with its striking opposition of... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2015, Choral & Song Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Shortlisted - Early Music
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Salve celeberrima virgo receives a consummately-crafted reading, its tangy false relations’ never exaggerated or attention-seeking. The Mass, too, opens with a poised precision, every note suspended... — More…
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[In the Regina coeli] the singers enliven the texture with their nuanced renderings of the marvellous contrapuntal connections, and the recording make the most of the double-choir effects in... — More…
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The programme showcases [Brumel's] heterogenous style...and the group's radiant sound - superbly captured in the open, silvery recording - illuminates the multiple texts of this glittering musical... — More…
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The disc opens with his subdued Requiem Mass. Many groups would have tackled this with exaggerated dynamics, squeeze-boxing every phrase for maximum impact. Here, though, we get absolute calm,... — More…
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Moulu's idiom is pleasingly inventive and immediately engaging. As to the performances, they work very nicely...the music itself so clearly deserves to be heard. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2010, Editor's Choice
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