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Bruckner - Locus iste, WAB 23
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Choral » Anthems & Motets
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Brahms & Bruckner: Motets
RecommendedMark Templeton (trombone), Helen Vollam (trombone), Patrick Jackman (trombone), Alexander Mason (organ)
Tenebrae, Nigel Short
Nigel Short and Tenebrae have come up with a beautifully balanced and contrasted programme…The beauty of sound and dignified expression of intensity that Tenebrae create in the opening of the... —
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BBC Music Magazine, Disc of the month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2016, Choral Winner
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Building a Library, December 2017, First Choice
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Building a Library, December 2017, First Choice
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It's when the pedal goes down (literally and metaphorically) that this disc really soars, startling the ear into ecstasy with the sudden release of Rachmaninov's Cherubic Hymn, the 'bright Seraphim'... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2019, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Bruckner: Motets
Nicholas Wearne (organ)
Choir of St Mary’s Cathedral, Edinburgh & RSAMD Brass, Duncan Ferguson
This performance is just superb. It's the kind of disc you want to turn up to full volume and lose yourself in, whether you're of a religious bent or not. Through their crisp, measured phrases,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2011, Editor's Choice
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I prefer them to Cambridge’s King’s College Choir, who sound as if they are trying to be angels, while this Latvian choir resounds from the bottom upwards and does sound much more like an anxious... —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2021, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Choral
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Bruckner: Te Deum and other works
RecommendedMaria Stader, Sieglinde Wagner, Ernst Haefliger, Peter Lagger
Chor der Deutschen Oper Berlin & Berliner Philharmoniker, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Eugen Jochum
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Building a Library, December 2017, Also Recommended
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Of the 'chamber-like' versions of this Mass, Polyphony trumps all others for beauty of tone. At the end of the Agnus, where the sopranos don't have bulk, they gleam. In the Benedictus, too,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2007, Editor's Choice
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Building a Library, December 2017, Also Recommended
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Lucas’s three dozen singers are on impressive form, combining tonal beauty with sheer stamina...This splendid new release will take some supplanting. —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2023, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2023
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Special offer. Motets: Music by Anton Bruckner; Michael Haydn
MDR Leipzig Radio Choir, Philipp Ahmann
Bruckner’s superb choral works unfortunately tend to be eclipsed by his own symphonies; ditto Michael Haydn by his famous brother. In this fine coupling, both enjoy their deserved moment in... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Choral
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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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Bruckner: Mass in E Minor, Motets
Choir of King's College Cambridge, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Sir Stephen Cleobury
Mostly the pieces here are austere, and none approaches the grandeur of Bruckner’s biggest choral works. But they are unostentationally moving, and never more than on this, Cleobury’s last disc. —
