ECM
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This beautifully engineered disc concludes a four-album trans-millennial tale that helped define meaningful music. —
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Jazzwise, Editor's Choice, December 2019
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Presto Recording of the Week, 18th October 2019
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Officium
A hauntingly beautiful combination of medieval unaccompanied choral music and jazz saxophone.
Jan Garbarek (saxophone)
Hilliard Ensemble
no matter how one views so-called crossover...or the relative unwisdom of sticking to rigid musical boundaries, the evidence remains conclusive: ''Officium'' successfully transcends any limitations... —
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L’Aurore is far greater than the sum of its parts...The album takes its name from the first movement of Ysaÿe’s fifth solo sonata, a work dedicated to his friend and former pupil Mathieu Crickboom.... —
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2022, Instrumental Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Solo Instrument
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Trio Mediaeval defend the corner for beautiful simplicity in this album —
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2005, Choral & Song Choice
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This is a landmark recording and a courageous venture. It's probably the first devoted to Machaut's motets, containing no fewer than 18 of the 23 that survive. It's certainly the first to present... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2004, Editor's Choice
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Saltarello
Garth Knox (fiddle, viola, viola d'amore), Agnès Vesterman (cello) & Sylvain Lemêtre (percussion)
Bringing all this music seamlessly together are the remarkable sonic possibilities offered by the combination of cello and viola or viola d'amore. A fiddle and electronics are added for good... —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2012, Editor's Choice
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Stravaganze Consonanti
Stefano Montanari (concertmaster), Stefano Rossi (violin), Claudio Andriani (viola), Francesco Galligioni (cello), Luca Bandini (double bass), Riccardo Balbinutti (percussion), Valeria Montanari (harpsichord), Gianluigi Trovesi (clarinet, saxophone), Fulvio Maras (percussion), Emiliano Rodolfi (oboe),...
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This is a superb and original recording. It gives musical individuality to a group of works that have hitherto tended to sound much the same. Moreover, as a special attraction for those wanting... —
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Ambrose Field & John Potter - Being Dufay
Music based on vocal fragments by Guillaume Dufay
John Potter (tenor) & Ambrose Field (composer, live and studio electronics)
Potter's singing here is exemplary, and I can think of few singers so suited to such music. Occasionally, washes of electronic sound engulf the soloist, providing compelling dramatic climaxes…... —
