Marian Consort
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As we have come to expect from the Marian Consort singers, their performances are well tuned, with an assured grasp of style throughout and with the sense of direction compellingly sustained. —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2022, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Early Music
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2022, World Premiere Recording (Rediscovery)
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Gramophone Awards, 2023 Finalists, Shortlisted - Early Music
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Adriatic Voyage: Seventeenth-Century Music from Venice to Dalmatia
RecommendedThe Illyria Consort (early music ensemble), Bojan Čičić (violin), Marian Consort (leadvocalist), Rory McCleery, Gawain Glenton
Throughout, singers and instrumentalists breathe and communicate as one, their rapport unbreakable. A recording, in short, packed with fresh discoveries at every turn; and a vivid snapshot of... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, September 2021
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2021
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The Marian Consort field eight singers (four men, four women) under the marvellously controlled direction of Rory McCleery. Their sound is pure, their intonation unflappable, their balance immaculate.... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2026, Nominated - Early Music
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Perhaps the ideal consort for this repertoire, the Marians bring an intimate, individually passionate flavour to Byrd’s Latin works. Nimble, lively vocal colour, warmth in the soprano (all too... —
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In Sorrow's Footsteps
Music by Gabriel Jackson, Palestrina, Allegri and James MacMillan
The Marian Consort, Rory McCleery
The sharp, jabbing gestures at the opening of Gabriel Jackson’s new setting of the Stabat Mater…announce that wilting introspection is by no means the composer’s default position in his response... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, July 2018
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O Virgo Benedicta
Music of Marian Devotion from Spain’s Century of Gold
The Marian Consort: Gwendolen Martin, Emma Walshe (sopranos), Nicholas Scott (tenor), Steffan Jones (baritone), Christopher Borrett (bass) & Rory McCleery (countertenor/director)
The Oxford-based mixed choir makes a bold, bright sound with strong individual voices. —
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This exquisite late-Renaissance Portuguese polyphonic repertoire is as richly expressive as it is politically poised…This beautiful new album from The Marian Consort is surely one of the best... —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2018, Editor's Choice
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Stabat Mater: Sacred Choral Music by Lennox and Michael Berkeley
The Marian Consort, Berkeley Ensemble, David Wordsworth
The Marian Consort’s background in early music pays dividends in their superb precision of pitch, impeccable rhythmic placing and beautiful diction…the lush harmonies that open [Judica me] are... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Shortlisted - Choral
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With two women in the group, they make no pretence at emulating what might have happened in the 16th century; but that lets them sing out with more freedom. So this is no-nonsense musicianship,... —
