CD, Ockeghem (composer)
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From the outset, performing with one voice to a part, the malevoice ensemble The Gesualdo Six brings the intimacy and detail of consort music to these accounts...Throughout the programme, the... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2021, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Early Music
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To say that Ockeghem composed some of the loveliest songs of the 15th century seems almost a cliché. But Scott Metcalfe and his musicians confirm that in spades. —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2024, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2024
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Gramophone Awards, 2025 Finalists, Early Music
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Johannes Ockeghem: Complete Songs, Vol. 1
Margot Rood, Aaron Sheehan, Kim Leeds, Jason McStoots, Summer Thompson, Owen McIntosh, Martin Near, Stefan Reed, David McFerrin, Paul Guttry, Laura Jeppesen, Sophie Michaux, Megan Chartrand, Blue Heron, Scott Metcalfe
The signal virtue of Blue Heron’s Ockeghem is that they give the music room to breathe: this has always been rare in performances of 15th-century song and it pays instant dividends. Innumerable... —
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The New York Times, Recordings of the Year 2019
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2020
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It’s good to be prepared for the vigorous singing with close microphones. A “full-blooded vocal technique” reveals the passion and emotion inherent in these songs, which Rodin characterizes... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2026, Critics' Choice 2021
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2021, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Early Music
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Special offer. The Splendour of Florence with a Burgundian Resonance
Gothic Voices, Andrew Lawrence-King
The poetic French chansons included here intoxicated the European courts and cities with their ravishingly wistful melodies, delicately intertwined. Gothic Voices and veteran harpist Andrew... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Early Music
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Early Music
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Gramophone Awards, 2023 Finalists, Shortlisted - Early Music
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Special offer. The Orpheus' Lute. Improvisation and Wonder in Humanist Italy
Bor Zuljan (lute, soloist), Mónica Pustilnik
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The centrepiece here is Ockeghem's L'homme armé Mass. It may be one of his earliest Masses, dating perhaps from the early 1450s. It's also one of his most curious. For the most part it lies... —
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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The Mass is enormous, even lacking a Kyrie, but the superb Capilla Flamenca, no strangers to this repertoire or to this composer, separate the sections with a series of motets and songs in exuberant,... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Finalist - Early Music
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The landscape angle is slightly odd…Luckily some real landscaping can be heard in Hesdin’s motet ‘Parasti’ where the performers shape the form and contour the dynamics splendidly. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Early Music
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