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Complete Josquin Mass Cycle
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Josquin: Masses
RecommendedHercules Dux Ferrarie, D'ung aultre amer & Missa Faysant regretz
The Tallis Scholars, Peter Phillips
Phillips’s reading of the Ferrarese work is fluid and supple, and there’s a gentle momentum even in the more contemplative sections...The Scholars’ sound is lean and clear: every strand of the... —
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Record Review, 7th November 2020, Record of the Week
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2020, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2021, Winner - Choral
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2021, Recording of the Year
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Winner - Early Music
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This is absolutely superb. We must accept that Josquin is unlikely to have heard this music with two women on the top line, but they do it so well that only a fundamentalist would mark the disc... —
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Gramophone Awards, 1987, Recording of the Year
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Gramophone Awards, 1987, Winner - Early Music
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Josquin des Prés: Masses - Gaudeamus; L'ami Baudichon
RecommendedThe Tallis Scholars, Peter Phillips
This is the seventh of nine projected discs in The Tallis Scholars' ongoing endeavour to record the complete Masses of Josquin des Prés. Using just nine singers gives an intimacy to these readings... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2018, Choral. & Song Choice
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Diapason d’Or, January 2019, Nouveauté
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Josquin des Prés: Missa mater Patris & Noel Bauldeweyn: Missa Da pacem
The Tallis Scholars, Peter Phillips
The Scholars take [the Missa Mater Patris] at an aptly reverential tread, capturing its introspective – at times hypnotic – qualities…The Scholars realise [the Bauldeweyn] with all the precision,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2019, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2019, Critics' Choice
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the complex cross-rhythms in the Credo are adroitly handled. Although the performance is a semitone lower than modern pitch, movements such as the Gloria keep their brightness...You can hear... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2012, Finalist - Early Music
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This is glorious music. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 21st October 2016
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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These two pieces have rarely been recorded, and yet they are great works from a truly great composer. …the standards of ensemble singing here are typically high, and the sound recording is... —
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Peter Phillip's pre-eminently clear-sighted direction… may carry with it a certain detachment, but the architecture of Josquin's edifices is allowed to emerge untrammelled by well-meaning expressive... —
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