Choral, Anthems & Motets, Taverner (composer)
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New. Troubled Times: Music and Espionage in Renaissance England
The Queen's Six, Rose Consort of Viols
The Queen's Six bring to this repertoire the seamless blend you'd expect from singers who share not merely a concert platform but a postcode within Windsor Castle's walls. Indeed, their daily... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2026, Editor's Choice
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The line-up might play safe, but it’s all exquisitely done, collegiate smoothness and blend to the fore. And what blend! The harmonic voicing is immaculate yet always sensitive to the imperatives... —
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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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The Mass requires singers of the highest calibre and the Scholars rise magnificently to the challenge - both literally and figuratively speaking. The sopranos sing with razor-sharp precision,... —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2016, Choral Finalist
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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The expertise of the Stile Antico group in this repertory is not in doubt and, as always, these singers give us splendid performances. Gibbon's O Clap Your Hand, for example, has a sure-footed... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 29th July 2013
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Shortlisted - Early Music
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The Missa Sancti Wilhelmi isn't one of Taverner's best known works, but there's no reason why this should be the case. Though it doesn't have the sometimes rather wild melodic beauty of the... —
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This is inspiring, immaculate music-making of the highest order – nothing less than you would expect from an ensembkle that can be counted among Britain’s great cultural treasures. —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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Special offer. Henry VIII On Tour: Music From Tudor Royal Progresses
David De Winter, Toby Carr, Ensemble Pro Victoria, Toby Ward, Aileen Henry, New Vocal Ensemble, Magnus Williamson
the sum of the parts form[s] an aural depiction of Henry VIII’s annual progresses every bit as vivid and colourful as Hans Holbein the Younger’s famous portrait. —
