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Combining Tallis and Gesualdo with modern/contemporary composers such as Sarah Rimkus, Gerda Blok-Wilson and the late Veljo Tormis can be tricky for an ensemble, but the Gesualdo Six and Owain... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2020, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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Short finds a musical dramaturgy to match that of the text. The Requiem is written for six voices, but this choir of 20 never seems lumbering or unbalanced. They are perfectly tuned (listen... —
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Building a Library, May 2011, Featured
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2011, Choral & Song Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2012, Choral Award Winner
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The famed King’s Singers attention to pin-point pitching, slick ensemble, and deft balances between the voices are present in abundance. The two Beatles arrangements are particularly successful…The... —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2017, Editor's Choice
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Grammy Awards, 61st Awards (2019), Nominee - Classical Compendium
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The Schola may be the Brompton Oratory’s parish choir but they are also a school ensemble whose back lines are made up of boys aged 18 and under, with the support of just six adult lay clerks.... —
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Special offer. Baroque Music from Latin America: New World Symphonies
From Araujo to Zipoli: an A to Z of Latin American Baroque Music
Ex Cathedra, Jeffrey Skidmore
This is one of the most eye-opening CDs—or should I say ear-opening— that I have heard this year. What a magical concoction of sounds—and what brilliant playing! —
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Santiago a cappella
RecommendedRecording location: St Alban the Martyr, Holborn, London
Monteverdi Choir, John Eliot Gardiner
A wonderful collection brilliantly sung. Only Mariam Matrem is a true pilgrim piece, but others (Lobo's Versa est) are a revelation. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 30th August 2010
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Building a Library, October 2005, Highly Recommended
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Alonso Lobo is best known for one work, his setting of the funerary Versa est in luctum. This is undoubtedly a masterpiece of its kind but to have it placed alongside other pieces from his 1602... —
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this programme…offers much warmth and richness of recorded sound —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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