Cinquecento

Throughout this album Cinquecento are at the top of their game. Stylistically speaking, I would suggest similarities with The Hilliard Ensemble. — Gramophone Magazine, August 2021 More…

There is much to praise in these poised, polished performances, hieratic in the Mass and more intimate where the music permits it (the beginning of the ‘Qui tollis’ is lovely in a way that recalls... — Gramophone Magazine, November 2023 More…

Cinquecento captures the work's meditative quality to profound effect, the all-male vocal ensemble creating an aptly plangent sonority and a tone of high seriousness. Using just six singers,... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2012, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Cinquecento are clearly in their comfort zone and immediately find a sweet spot for optimal polyphonic momentum that also allows the phrases room to expand. — Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2021 More…

These singers are always nicely in tune and effectively blended, especially in the slower movements of the Mass where they strongly project the chordal colouring in the ‘Qui tollis’ and perfectly... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2020, 3 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

…These are really good singers, and when the construction of the music invites them to unwind (as in the wonderful Spiritus Domini) we are treated to a delicious feast of harmonic tension and... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2009, 3 out of 5 stars More…

From this showing, Cinquecento would be well placed to advocate Vaet further. An all-male a cappella ensemble, they sound clear and bright, and articulate the music lucidly — Gramophone Magazine More…

The six male singers of Cinquecento have a lot going for them. The voices are warmly recorded though a little too closely… their performances make it clear that Monte is a composer of distinction. — BBC Music Magazine, June 2008, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The immaculately written motet-like textures of Sortez Regretz bring out the best in the singers who give us clean textures and superb tuning...They give a beautiful performance of the little... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2014, 4 out of 5 stars More…