Perotinus
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This beautifully engineered disc concludes a four-album trans-millennial tale that helped define meaningful music. —
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Jazzwise, Editor's Choice, December 2019
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Presto Recording of the Week, 18th October 2019
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Officium
A hauntingly beautiful combination of medieval unaccompanied choral music and jazz saxophone.
Jan Garbarek (saxophone)
Hilliard Ensemble
no matter how one views so-called crossover...or the relative unwisdom of sticking to rigid musical boundaries, the evidence remains conclusive: ''Officium'' successfully transcends any limitations... —
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Sacred Music from Notre-Dame Cathedral
Joanna Forbes (soprano, Rebecca Hickey (soprano), Kathryn Oswald (contralto), Alexander L'Estrange (counter-tenor), Richard Eteson (tenor), Alexander Hickey (tenor), Timothy Watson (tenor) & Francis Brett (bass)
Tonus Peregrinus, Antony Pitts
An utterly beguiling introduction to Léonin and Pérotin —
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2005, Choral & Song Choice
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Special offer. John Casken: The Dream of the Rood
The Hilliard Ensemble, Asko, Schönberg Ensemble, Clark Rundell
The setting is for all-male vocal quartet — the immaculate Hilliard Ensemble — and a small instrumental ensemble of wind, percussion and harp. The music is at once ancient and modern. There... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, July 2019
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The Times Records of the Year, 2019
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Mystery Of Notre Dame
Chant & polyphony
Orlando Consort, Choristers Of Westminster Cathedral, Robert Harre-Jones
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Trio Mediaeval defend the corner for beautiful simplicity in this album —
Awards:
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2005, Choral & Song Choice
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Veni Domine
RecommendedAdvent & Christmas from the Sistine Chapel
Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo)
Sistine Chapel Choir, Massimo Palombella
Everything here is sung with extreme subtlety and a delicacy which rather confounded my expectations. Palombella (who, like all his predecessors in the role, is ordained in Holy Orders) clearly... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 1st December 2017
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The Dudok Quartet ’s playing is vigorous, intense and at times thrilling. Roukens’s string quartet in particular merits repeated and rewarded listening. —
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This is a superb and original recording. It gives musical individuality to a group of works that have hitherto tended to sound much the same. Moreover, as a special attraction for those wanting... —
