Harmonia Mundi

If you listened blind you'd say this was a souped-up Erard, but it's actually a Steinway from 1882. Braley's musicianship is superb, and he extracts unexpected revelations from these well-known... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2013, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

Margo Kolar’s arrangements aren’t just ethnomusicological curation but exercises in a living music, and the ensemble manages to impart a timeless quality to religious and secular songs alike... — Early Music Today, March/April 2014More…

Anonymous 4 could easily serve as an indication of how seamlessly the four womens' voices blend together in these acappella arrangements of 15th-century carols...Though each is showcased on... — The Independent, 17th December 2010, 3 out of 5 starsMore…

Almost all the players who perform here seem stirred enough by the music's pathos and power to rise to the occasion...[to give] an intense, sweeping account of the work. I have no complaints,... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2011, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

Creed's singers..[flow] with a delightful ease through Bach's taxing figurations - treating voices as if texted instruments. He binds together the contrasting sections of Lobet den Herrn with... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2011, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

The Huelgas's radiant performance of this magical six-part Requiem (1521, probably) would surely have delighted Josquin. Plus six gorgeous motets. — BBC Music Magazine, January 2014, 5 out of 5 starsMore…

Harmonia Mundi's budget series typically provides no songtexts; but Werner Gura's uniquely elqouent tenor makes these settings flower so that literal translations are barely necessary. — BBC Music Magazine, March 2013, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

No ensemble delivers Renaissance chansons with as much character, colour and energy as Ensemble Clement Janequin. The texts (sadly online only) and music run from the earthy to the ethereal. — BBC Music Magazine, December 2013, 5 out of 5 starsMore…