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At the risk of invoking Thomas Beecham, I absolutely love the sound this ensemble make, especially the clarity and agility of the Renaissance violins, which create stunningly sensuous textures...This... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Early Music
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Special offer. Ubi caritas. Italian Laude in Early Renaissance
Le Miroir de Musique, Jacob Lawrence, Sabine Lutzenberger, Dorothea Jakob, Marc Lewon, Baptiste Romain
it is doubtful that these often simple-minded and slight songs, the very essence of popular religiosity, could have been given a better hearing. —
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The vocal pieces are performed equally well with some arresting imitative singing in Celsa sublimatur, calm beauty in Tota pulchra es…and extraordinary fluency in the complex cross-rhythms of... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2016, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Finalist - Early Music
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Special offer. The Orpheus' Lute. Improvisation and Wonder in Humanist Italy
Bor Zuljan (lute, soloist), Mónica Pustilnik
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the intriguingly named The Scale Knitters bring the requisite darkness and drama to La gamme, as its subtitle suggests, with greater sonority. Here, violinist Fiona-Émilie Poupard and bass... —
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Buccarella’s playing is superb, and he is fully at home with all of his instruments, instinctively knowing the characteristic sound of each. He exploits the registration to bring out the varying... —
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Zuljan plays with right-hand nails à la Piccinini, and close to the bridge. Despite the use of gut strings, the tone is steely and sonorous, a foundation that allows him to take deliciously... —
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Legrenzi’s real gifts lie in writing catchy tunes, the adroit manipulation of short motifs and attractive quasi-fugato writing. Clematis have responded with carefully thought-out phrasing, a... —
