Josquin - Praeter rerum seriem
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Throughout, The Gesualdo Six offer up introspective and expressive readings...There is, inevitably, a similarity of mood to these melancholy works and the cumulative effect is somewhat overwhelming,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2024, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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Sunday Times, 20 Best Classical Albums of 2024
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Odhecaton, The Gesualdo Six, La Pifarescha, La Reverdie, Paolo Da Col
Lacking the brightness of trebles or sopranos, the vocal sound is warm, dark, plangent – compared with the glassy textures of The Tallis Scholars (who’ve recently recorded Josquin’s complete... —
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Diapason d’Or, October 2021, Nouveauté
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Finalist - Early Music
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The choir is at its best in two movements selected from Antoine Brumel's Missa Et ecce terrae motus...The Gloria opens with some truly delicate singing, and the clear, restricted harmonies evoke... —
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The performances - and the music - are highly distinguished...However, a word of warning is appropriate: the music is addictive and once you have sampled it in these exquisite performances you... —
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Anne Boleyn’s Songbook
Music and Passions of a Tudor Queen
Clare Wilkinson (voice), Jacob Heringman (lute) & Kirsty Whatley (harp)
Alamire, David Skinner
Alamire's sound is robust and muscular, full-bodied rather than pristine. Mezzo-soprano Clare Wilkinson sings the solo songs with ingenuous simplicity, subtly inflecting the words with period... —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2016, Choral Finalist
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Gramophone Awards, 1994, Winner - Early Music
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Die Singphoniker perform the secular madrigals with a joyful energy that broadens in the related Magnificat while retaining essential glimmers of mischief…overall the album is delightful —
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A Golden Treasury of Renaissance Music
Musica Antiqua of London, Fretwork, The York Waits, Musica Secreta, Paula Chateauneuf, Suzie Le Blanc, New London Chamber Choir, Frances Kelly, Nigel North
James Wood
