Gombert
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Combining Tallis and Gesualdo with modern/contemporary composers such as Sarah Rimkus, Gerda Blok-Wilson and the late Veljo Tormis can be tricky for an ensemble, but the Gesualdo Six and Owain... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2020, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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Gombert - Tribulatio et angustias
Four- & five-part motets
The Brabant Ensemble, Stephen Rice (director)
This is the first disc to focus on the core of Gombert, his motets. What we know of his troubled life and extant music suggests that he was not a 'Laetentur coeli' sort of composer, and so the... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2008, Finalist - Early Music
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2007, Editor's Choice
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Throughout, The Gesualdo Six offer up introspective and expressive readings...There is, inevitably, a similarity of mood to these melancholy works and the cumulative effect is somewhat overwhelming,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2024, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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Sunday Times, 20 Best Classical Albums of 2024
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The imaginative creation by Simon-Pierre Bestion’s ensemble, La Tempête, is so stirring, heart-tugging and well recorded that I don’t know whether to sink to my knees in prayer or erupt into... —
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2019, Winner - Choral
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International Classical Music Awards, 2020, Nominee - Early Music
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…the superb singers of Stile Antico are up to the challenge of presenting all the required moods from pious restraint… to melting abandon… a magnificent display of the very best kind of polyphonic... —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2009, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2009, Winner - Early Music
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Antonini (Italy’s answer to the Pied Piper) coaxes alluring sounds from his battery of instruments (recorders, flute, dulcian, chalumeau), and the 13 members of his ensemble follow with equal... —
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Diapason d’Or, June 2019
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2019, Winner - Musique ancienne
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International Classical Music Awards, 2020, Nominee - Early Music
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Special offer. Josquin Desprez: Septiesme Livre de Chansons
Dominique Visse, Ensemble Clément Janequin
The Ensemble Clément Janequin have been issuing top-quality discs of 16th-century music for almost 40 years: even if the only member now left over from the original group is the countertenor... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Early Music
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Amarae Morti
Lamentations and motets by Cardoso, Gombert, Lassus, Morales, Palestrina, Phinot & Victoria
El León de Oro, Peter Phillips
Phillips pounces on all the details that matter: dissonances crunch satisfactorily, imitative points are tightly nested, and light streams through thick homophony…The choir is fresh-sounding,... —
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Special offer. Requiem for an Emperor
Michaela Riener (soloist), Bart Uvyn (soloist), Adriaan De Koster (soloist), Lieven Termont (soloist), Guillaume Olry (soloist), Jan Van Outryve, Utopia Ensemble
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International Classical Music Awards, 2026, Nominated - Early Music
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