Choral, Magnificat & Nunc dimittis settings, Palestrina (composer)
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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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Miserere
A sequence of music for Lent, St Joseph, and the Annunciation
Peter Stevens (organ), William Gaunt (bass) & Peter Stevens (organ)
Westminster Cathedral Choir, Martin Baker
This is a disc for those who love the acoustic, the atmosphere and the musical traditions of the Roman Catholic Cathedral in London...This is a large choir, very good at big effects. The pacing... —
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Niquet appropriately creates a liturgical framework, weaving plainchant, motets and instrumental items around the main work; these also serve to contrast with and complement the sometimes gluttonously... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, June 2018
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2018, Editor's Choice
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Diapason d’Or, July/August 2018, Nouveauté
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The subtle ebb and flow of the speed in Vox dilecti, for example, exactly matches the quickening emotions at the sound of the voice of the beloved, and the ascending musical motives at the call... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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The award-winning group Voces 8 is well-known for its wide-ranging programmes and accomplished technical control...In Monteverdi's Cantate Dominum (this is his 1620 setting, not the 1615 one)... —
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Veni Creator Spiritus - Second Vespers of the Solemnity of Pentecost
Peter Stevens (organ), Westminster Cathedral Choir, The Choir of Buckfast Abbey, Simon Johnson
The recording has the atmosphere of an important ecclesiastical event...Westminster Cathedral Choir sounds in its element throughout, with Ad Fontes's recording team capturing the spacious,... —
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Special offer. Palestrina: Missa Dum complerentur
and other music for Whitsuntide
Westminster Cathedral Choir, Martin Baker
This is a thoughtful, carefully analysed performance—Baker and the Westminster choir communicate a clear sense of the structural logic … the singers are excellent … virtually flawless … shut... —
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Director Harry Christophers draws controlled performances which highlight the music's extremes of spiritual serenity and visceral energy. As one might expect from this crack choir, there is... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2007, Editor's Choice
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The Mass sounds both natural and beautiful; indeed the whole piece is an aural feast. The last item is Rore's Regina caeli laetare, Frances Kelly's harp weaving round the soprano line. Magical. —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2009, Editor's Choice
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