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the music here is exceptionally varied, often florid and requiring no little agility. Its not insubstantial challenges are masterfully met by the admirable Brabant Ensemble. —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2025, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2025 Shortlist, Early Music
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Unaccompanied, the Monteverdi Choir goes back to its roots in a programme which harnesses scholarship and singing of breathtaking beauty. —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2007, Choral Finalist
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2006, Choral & Song Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2007, Editor's Choice
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The famed King’s Singers attention to pin-point pitching, slick ensemble, and deft balances between the voices are present in abundance. The two Beatles arrangements are particularly successful…The... —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2017, Editor's Choice
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Grammy Awards, 61st Awards (2019), Nominee - Classical Compendium
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New. Orlando Di Lasso: Officia Aliquot de Præcipuis Festis Anni - Pentecostes
Lassus Chamber Choir, Ite O’donovan
Director Ite O'Donovan and her Dublin-based Lassus Chamber Choir approach the music with palpable devotion...Throughout, the choir's warm, velvet-soft tone and finely blended ensemble create... —
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The high point is the vocalists' searching and sublime rendering of the Benedicta es motet with its Magnificat. You may have to find your own reasons for listening to eight Magnificats with... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2026, Nominated - Early Music
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These are all very experienced musicians with marvellous voices and a deep understanding of the repertory; and Philip Cave guides them with a thoroughly experienced and musically thoughtful... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2024, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2024 Shortlist, Shortlisted - Early Music
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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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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The sound image is compelling on its own terms, with the homogeneity typical of ensembles with countertenors on the top lines. But it's a flexible interpretation nonetheless...an involving experience. —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2013, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Finalist - Early Music
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Building a Library, December 2016, First Choice
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It’s hard to resist. Here is a choir in which all the elements are held in perfect equilibrium. Patrick Allies ponders every note before moulding lines whose suppleness in turn coalesce into... —
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2018, Choral & Song Choice
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It is a mixed choir of 15 voices which work together splendidly, even if Lassus rarely uses the different ranges to enhance the meaning of the text...An insightful, rewarding and musical recording. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2026, Nominated - Early Music
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