CD, Gregorian Chant (composer)
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Western Wind
RecommendedMusic By John Taverner & Court Music For Henry VIII
Emily Van Evera (soprano), Charles Daniels (tenor)
Taverner Choir & Players, Andrew Parrott
The Western Wynde Mass nicely contrasts with The Tallis Scholars’ recording, being incisive and brisk where Peter Phillips’s reading is smoother and more leisurely. Parrott is perhaps more persuasive... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2016, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Winner - Early Music
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This is absolutely superb. We must accept that Josquin is unlikely to have heard this music with two women on the top line, but they do it so well that only a fundamentalist would mark the disc... —
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Gramophone Awards, 1987, Recording of the Year
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Gramophone Awards, 1987, Winner - Early Music
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From the vaults of Westminster Cathedral
RecommendedA procession of chant & polyphony from Advent to Christmas & the Epiphany and Presentation of our Lord
Matthew Martin (organ accompaniment), & Martin Baker (organ improvisations)
The Choir of Westminster Cathedral, Martin Baker
Epiphany brings Monteverdi's Messa a 4 da cappella, whose polyphonic complexities elicit a confidently assertive response from the choir, with fine internal balances between the voice sections. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 30th November 2009
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The performances by a consort of 10 singers and 16 players are lovingly and respectfully done, and create a sound to please the ear...An album to please lovers of Baroque byways. —
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Vision of Peace: The Monks of Ampleforth Abbey
Gregorian Chant
Dom. Laurence McTaggart (organ)
The Monks of Ampleforth Abbey, Dom. Benjamin O'Sullivan
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The Feast of St Edward, King and Confessor, at Westminster Abbey
Robert Quinney (organ)
The Choir of Westminster Abbey, James O’Donnell
An admirably varied programme, with excellent Hyperion recording. —
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