Hi Res Download, Palestrina (composer)
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This year is (probably) the 500th anniversary of Palestrina’s birth and there will doubtless be quite a few recordings of his works in the following months. Few efforts will be better than these... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2026, Nominated - Early Music
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The New York Times, Best Classical Music Albums of 2025
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Hollingworth gets it: this music of exquisite imagination and devotional depth deserves his subtle, intelligent, respectful approach… the singers sound like true believers. The voices are sublime…... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2026, Editor's Choice
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Record Review, 20th June 2026, Record of the Week
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Special offer. Orazio Benevoli: Missa Tu Es Petrus
RecommendedI Fagiolini, The City Musick, Robert Hollingworth
Recorded here in the round, with a battery of instruments enriching the vocal ensembles, the work engulfs the senses just as it must have done in Benevoli’s day in the echoing spaces of St Peter's. —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2024, Recording of the Week
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Innocence: Echo Vocal Ensemble
Ben Munden (tenor), Anna Semple (contralto), Hilary Cronin (soprano), Margaret Lingas (soprano), Echo Vocal Ensemble, Sarah Latto
Here is a deeply satisfying, centuries-spanning, thought-provoking debut album by the fine choral ensemble Echo...The highlight of the album is Howard Skempton’s luminous Yeats setting ‘He wishes... —
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2024, Choral & Song Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2024
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2025, Shortlisted - Premiere
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New. Harp Music; Chamber Music; Harp Concerto (trabaci; Palestrina; Caccini; Strozzi; Mullov-Abbado; Respighi; Tárrega; Molino)
Oliver Wass (harp), Pelléas Ensemble, Gabriela Opacka-Boccadoro, Ensemble Apm, Luca Vacchetti
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The drama and flamboyant colours of Baroque Rome's art and architecture and wonderfully present in this reconstruction of its sacred music. This recording's breadth of moods, devices and styles... —
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2011, Choral & Song 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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This is a glorious addition to the Monteverdi 450 celebrations. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 28th April 2017
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2017, Disc of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Finalist - Choral
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[In the Regina coeli] the singers enliven the texture with their nuanced renderings of the marvellous contrapuntal connections, and the recording make the most of the double-choir effects in... —
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Allegri: Miserere & Palestrina: Missa Papae Marcelli
Andrew Carwood, Deborah Roberts, Sally Dunkley, Caroline Trevor & Donald Greig
The Tallis Scholars, Peter Phillips
Having thoroughly internalised this music, Phillips creates a reading of great authority. The greatest contrast between the two Merton College recordings… is the choir's sound: this now commands... —
