Early Music Collection
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Tomkins: Music for viols, organ, harpsichord
RecommendedRose Consort of Viols, Red Byrd, Thos Roberts, J Bryan
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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The centrepiece here is Ockeghem's L'homme armé Mass. It may be one of his earliest Masses, dating perhaps from the early 1450s. It's also one of his most curious. For the most part it lies... —
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Hildegard von Bingen: Heavenly Revelations
RecommendedHymns, Sequences, Antiphons, Responds
Oxford Camerata, Jeremy Summerly
Hildegard of Bingen was especially gifted and richly deserves this moving tribute from Naxos. —
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Building a Library, April 2016, Also Recommended
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Despres: Missa L'homme armé, Ave Maria, Absalon Fili Mi
RecommendedOxford Camerata, Jeremy Summerly
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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The Oxford Camerata provides a representative selection of choral works by Gibbons, together with three of his organ pieces. The programme is introduced by a bright and busy performance of the... —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 1996, Editor's Choice
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Building a Library, October 2018, Recommended Recording
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Sacred Music from Notre-Dame Cathedral
Joanna Forbes (soprano, Rebecca Hickey (soprano), Kathryn Oswald (contralto), Alexander L'Estrange (counter-tenor), Richard Eteson (tenor), Alexander Hickey (tenor), Timothy Watson (tenor) & Francis Brett (bass)
Tonus Peregrinus, Antony Pitts
An utterly beguiling introduction to Léonin and Pérotin —
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2005, Choral & Song Choice
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Palestrina: Missa Papae Marcelli, Missa Aeterna Christi Munera & Stabat mater
RecommendedOxford Schola Cantorum, Oxford Camerata, Jeremy Summerly
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Building a Library, January 2015, First Choice
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This is the closest anyone has yet come to recording Machaut's setting as he himself might have heard it; the coupling is a sampling of songs from Le Voir Dit, another intriguingly autobiographical... —
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Palestrina: Missa Papae Marcelli & Missa aeterna Christi munera
RecommendedOxford Camerata, Jeremy Summerly
The performances are as delightful as the music. —
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Building a Library, January 2015, First Choice
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Naxos could not have chosen better for their first volume of what promises to be an exciting series. —
