Cinquecento
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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. —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2021, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Shortlisted - Early Music
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The voices of Cinquecento produce balanced, tuneful, clear and stylish performances...The recording deserves credit, too, for lending substance and space to the mere six voices that produce... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Shortlisted - Early Music
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…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... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2009, Editor's Choice
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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... —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2020, Editor's Choice
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On the page [Willaert's writing] looks almost suffocatingly opaque, but that's where Cinquecento comes in. Right from the off, they seize on this quality and make it work in their favour. It's... —
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Missa Domine a lingua dolosa is based on Padovano’s motet written in the unusual yet expressive Aeolian mode. It’s a low, mellow setting, which clearly inspires the singers of Cinquecento. —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2024, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Early Music
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these musicians cannot put a foot wrong, either technically or musically. The voices remain fresh and interesting throughout. —
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The combined effect of this wonderful, timeless music and Cinquecento’s brilliant performances can only be described as therapeutic...the six voices of Cinquecento have produced a recording... —
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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 —
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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... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2023, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2024 Shortlist, Shortlisted - Early Music
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