Amorosi pensieri
Songs for the Habsburg Court by Philippe de Monte, Jean Guyot, Jacobus Vaet & Jacob Regnart
Cinquecento
Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2014, Editor's Choice
The immaculately written motet-like textures of Sortez Regretz bring out the best in the singers who give us clean textures and superb tuning...They give a beautiful performance of the little...
Amorosi pensieri
Songs for the Habsburg Court by Philippe de Monte, Jean Guyot, Jacobus Vaet & Jacob Regnart
Cinquecento
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Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2014, Editor's Choice
The immaculately written motet-like textures of Sortez Regretz bring out the best in the singers who give us clean textures and superb tuning...They give a beautiful performance of the little...
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A new departure for the wonderful all-male vocal ensemble Cinquecento. They turn to the secular music—generally much less well-known—of the Renaissance masters Philippe de Monte, Jacobus Vaet and Jacob Regnart whose sacred music they have explored so successfully in previous recordings for Hyperion. Also included are six chansons by Jean Guyot de Châtelet (his name is sometimes Latinized to ‘Castileti’).
This collection is both historically fascinating and stunningly performed. The music is beautiful and sensuous, with the polyphonic arts familiar from sacred works of this period now put to the service of earthly emotions. An expressively melancholic vein pervades many of these works, and one can see them as a precursor to Monteverdi’s madrigals.
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Awards and reviews
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Gramophone MagazineJuly 2014Editor's Choice
September 2014
The immaculately written motet-like textures of Sortez Regretz bring out the best in the singers who give us clean textures and superb tuning...They give a beautiful performance of the little rustic ditty Ein Lieb, and they trip through Venus du und dein Kind delightfully.
July 2014
This is great… It's not just that their ensemble and tuning are flawless, nor that with six highly individual voices they can create an amazing range of colours, but that with their multicultural forces they can fit effortlessly into the style of the music, whether the texts are in Italian, French or German.
Early Music Today
Such spirited and suave performances as these...could be considered a platter of amuses-bouches, to be sampled and enjoyed for their variety rather than for their profundity. Dig in, I say.
