Choral, Masses, Clemens (composer)
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…These are really good singers, and when the construction of the music invites them to unwind (as in the wonderful Spiritus Domini) we are treated to a delicious feast of harmonic tension and... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2009, Editor's Choice
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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 disc opens with his subdued Requiem Mass. Many groups would have tackled this with exaggerated dynamics, squeeze-boxing every phrase for maximum impact. Here, though, we get absolute calm,... —
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Superbly recorded, it is a masterclass in outstanding breadth of interpretation, balance and total teamwork … the group’s ‘worker’s co-operative’ ethos continues to reap dividends with, on this... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Veni Domine
RecommendedAdvent & Christmas from the Sistine Chapel
Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo)
Sistine Chapel Choir, Massimo Palombella
Everything here is sung with extreme subtlety and a delicacy which rather confounded my expectations. Palombella (who, like all his predecessors in the role, is ordained in Holy Orders) clearly... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 1st December 2017
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The sinuous yearning of Clemens's Agnus Dei is…a triumph of fluid phrasing and dynamic shaping, and a reminder of the formidable credentials of this group —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 4th December 2015
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Special offer. Scarlatti: Stabat Mater & Campra: Campra: Messe des Morts (Requiem)
Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
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endBeginning: New York Polyphony
New York Polyphony: Geoffrey Williams (countertenor), Geoffrey Silver (tenor), Christopher Dylan Herbert (baritone) & Craig Phillips (bass)
With an atmospheric cover of a destroyed chapel interior, this disc of mainly 16th-century vocal music is all about death and decay...Plainsong interleaves the polyphony: the effect is ethereally... —
