Choral, Anthems & Motets, White, Robert (composer)
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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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Sweet tuning and subtle dynamic distinctions mark James MacMillan’s Ave maris stella, with gleamingly pure-toned contributions from the soprano…Technically the most difficult piece is probably... —
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2018, Choral & Song Choice
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Presto Editor's Choice, May 2018
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2018, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2019, Finalist - Choral
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2019, Winner - Choral
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Gramophone Awards, 2019, Finalist - Choral
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Limelight Magazine Recordings of the Year, 2018, Winner - Vocal/Choral
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This is an ingenious and moving collection of pieces framed as the interplay between light and dark, and moving across the spectrum of such experiences...The harmonic languages of these pieces... —
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2025, Choral Choice
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Unsurprisingly, refinement abounds, though sometimes at the expense of ‘bite’. —
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Presto Editor's Choice, January 2019
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The New York Times, Recordings of the Year 2019
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International Classical Music Awards, 2020, Nominee - Early Music
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Already in Gibbons’s Drop, Drop, Slow, Tears there are numerous indications of the elevated artistry of Paul McCreesh and the 22 singers of his Gabrieli Consort. —
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2012, Disc of the month
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The Sweetest Songs: Music from the Baldwin Partbooks III
Alice Hulett, Ruth Provost, David Gould, Contrapunctus, Owen Rees
They are in cracking form here, with no discernible weak link in the ensemble: honey-toned and purposeful sopranos, assertive countertenors and everything on down to match. —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2021, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Early Music
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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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Unanimity of phrasing and clean intonation are two strengths of the six Singers. They lend an extra degree of textural clarity to the modern harmonies of Judith Bingham's Ave Virgo Sanctissima,... —
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Conductorless Stile Antico may be, but they could never be accused of lacking direction or clear-sighted commitment to the works on this generously-filled album...The approach encourages long-range... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 29th November 2010
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