Philips, P - Pater noster
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Adoramus Te
Motets, songs and consort music by William Byrd and Peter Philips
Clare Wilkinson (mezzo-soprano)
The Rose Consort of Viols
The playing by the Rose Consort is refined and blanaced without any of the bass-heavy fuzziness that one sometimes hears from viol groups...The motets are performed with just one of the parts... —
Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2014, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2015, Finalist - Early Music
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This music is difficult to balance well, but the Sarum Consort, with one voice to a part, achieves plangent harmony, especially in the glorious eight-voice, two-choir motet Ave Regina caelorum.... —