Monte, P
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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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Unsurprisingly, refinement abounds, though sometimes at the expense of ‘bite’. —
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Presto Editor's Choice, January 2019
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The New York Times, Recordings of the Year 2019
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International Classical Music Awards, 2020, Nominee - Early Music
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Byrd's repertory is familiar largely through English recordings. Departing radically from that tradition, Philippe Herreweghe renews the power of Byrd's masterpieces with sensual, intimate,... —
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Amorosi pensieri
Songs for the Habsburg Court by Philippe de Monte, Jean Guyot, Jacobus Vaet & Jacob Regnart
Cinquecento
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... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2014, Editor's Choice
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Christophers’s juxtapositions are always rewarding, and The Sixteen is on ravishing form. There’s an unmannered generosity to the singing whose wide-eyed freshness enables Christophers to keep... —
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2023, Choral & Song Choice
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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. —
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Gramophone Awards, 2008, Finalist - Early Music
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The ‘reconstitution’ of Tallis Libera nos as a brief choral work is very effective and the inclusion of the rich music of the 17th-century recusant Peerson is a welcome revelation… The singing... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Shortlisted - Early Music
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Upheld by Stillness
RecommendedRenaissance gems and their reflections - Volume 1: Byrd
ORA, Suzi Digby (artistic director and conductor)
ORA is made up of some of the UK’s finest consort singers, sitting to my ears somewhere between The Sixteen and Tenebrae…The melancholy severity of Byrd’s original is beautifully measured, ORA... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 12th February 2016
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The Word Unspoken
Sacred Music by William Byrd & Philippe de Monte
Gallicantus, Gabriel Crouch (director)
The ensemble's view of this repertory, though hardly new, is delivered with such intelligence and rhetorical persuasiveness that the cumulative weight of their Byrd, in particular, is well-nigh... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2012, Editor's Choice
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