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Allegri - Miserere mei, Deus
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Choral » Anthems & Motets
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Allegri: Miserere & Palestrina: Missa Papae Marcelli
Andrew Carwood, Deborah Roberts, Sally Dunkley, Caroline Trevor & Donald Greig
The Tallis Scholars, Peter Phillips
Having thoroughly internalised this music, Phillips creates a reading of great authority. The greatest contrast between the two Merton College recordings… is the choir's sound: this now commands... —
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One doesn’t often find Thomas Tallis, Edward Elgar and John Tavener sandwiching Massive Attack, but the lovely Teardrop works astonishingly well in this mixed programme devoted to the concept... —
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This is one of the best programmes that I have encountered in recent years, both in concept and execution, and it begins with an icon of early music, Allegri’s Miserere…The singers of Le Poème... —
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Diapason d’Or, October 2019, Nouveauté
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2019, Recording of the Month
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Baroque Vocal
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2019, Critics' Choice
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The programme is a potpourri, and one from which emanates the refined scent of the collegiate choir, à la King's or Trinity. The tuning is impeccable, the blend unimpeachable. Director Nigel... —
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2006, Choral & Song Choice
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Not the Live 1994 Palestrina 400 concert in Rome, but the 1980 Merton College recording. Then as now, the chaste 'finish' of the Allegri is overshadowed by a compellingly contoured Missa Papae... —
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1980s
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Building a Library, February 2001, First Choice
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Elīna Garanča: Meditation
Elina Garanča (mezzo-soprano)
Latvian Radio Choir, Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken, Karel Mark Chichon
The sustained line in the 'Laudate Dominum' by Mozart is amazing, especially given the sedate pace, and her intonation is flawless throoughout...If this collection of titles seems like a bit... —
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Palestrina: Missa Papae Marcelli, Missa Aeterna Christi Munera & Stabat mater
RecommendedOxford Schola Cantorum, Oxford Camerata, Jeremy Summerly
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Building a Library, January 2015, First Choice
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It's impossible to not be impressed by the range and ambition, from Josquin to their first composerin-residence Ola Gjeilo, and well-crafted arrangements from folk to Bond themes. Several brand-new... —
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Paired religious settings (of the Miserer and De Profundis), including MacMillan's gravely beautiful Miserere. Gleaming work from the sopranos, but overall the impact is a trifle muted. —
