Choral, Anthems & Motets, Gabrieli, G (composer)
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Pichon favours brisk tempos and draws lively and crisply articulated singing from his vocal ensemble. Textures are luminous and transparent, though just occasionally I found phrases a shade... —
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Opus Klassik, 2021, Winner - Choral
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Special offer. Monteverdi: Vespri solenni per la festa di San Marco
RecommendedMonica Piccinini, Anna Simboli (sopranos), Andrea Arrivabene, Gianluca Ferrarini (altos), Luca Dordolo, Raffaele Giordani (tenors) & Matteo Bellotto, Salvo Vitale (bass)
Concerto Italiano, Rinaldo Alessandrini
Alessandrini’s Monteverdi interpretations resound with passion…a brilliantly conceived, scholastically sound and liturgically plausible sequence, burnished with spiritual sincerity. —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2014, Disc of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Gramophone Awards, 2015, Winner - Baroque Vocal
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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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The performances are excellent, even given the variety of the program. They make for an hour and 15 minutes of immersion into the Venetian spirit. The vocalists are spot on pitch, and the instruments... —
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Diapason d’Or, November 2019, Nouveauté
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2020, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2020
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Special offer. JS Bach: Magnificat & Christmas Cantata 63
Reconstruction of Bach's first Christmas Vespers in Leipzig
Julia Doyle (soprano), Joanne Lunn (soprano), Clare Wilkinson (alto), Nicholas Mulroy (tenor), Matthew Brook (bass)
Dunedin Consort, John Butt
It’s an absolute joy – far too good to keep for Christmas. —
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BBC Music Magazine, Choral & Song Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2015, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Finalist - Baroque Vocal
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Byrd and his Contemporaries
RecommendedMotets in Paired Settings
Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, Sir David Willcocks
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Special offer. Venetian Vespers
RecommendedFive Vespers of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin as it might have been celebrated in St. Marks in 1643
Timothy Roberts (organ)
Gabrieli Consort and Players, Paul McCreesh
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Gramophone Awards, 1993, Winner - Early Music
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The London Oratory boys’ choir has a solid presence, with good balance and body. —
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1615 Gabrieli in Venice
His Majesty's Sackbutts & Cornetts & The Choir of King's College, Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury
The choral sound is candid and transparent, the lower, adult voices sensitively balanced so as not to swamp the delicate timbre of the boy choristers. His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts offer... —
