CD, Guerrero, Francisco (composer)
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The 50-strong oratory choir is made up entirely of boys, and conductor Charles Cole draws singing of vernal freshness from them, with excellent ensemble and an interpretive awareness that puts... — More…
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The Schola may be the Brompton Oratory’s parish choir but they are also a school ensemble whose back lines are made up of boys aged 18 and under, with the support of just six adult lay clerks.... — More…
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[Cardinall's Musick] encounters little difficulty in these well-written pieces...the singers are at their balanced best in Guerrero's Ave Maria for double choir, and their confident, perky attack... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Shortlisted - Early Music
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2010, Editor's Choice
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this makes a terrific introduction to the wide-ranging output of the 16th-century Spanish composer-cum-priest. Only the occasional loose edge in the livelier works mars the otherwise highly... — More…
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These performances seem to glow with an inner light. I don’t see how they could be improved upon. — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Finalist - Early Music
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New. O Sacrum Convivium! - Music For the Solemnity of Corpus Christi
The Choir of Buckfast Abbey, Charles Maxtone-Smith, Matthew Searles
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Miserere
A sequence of music for Lent, St Joseph, and the Annunciation
Peter Stevens (organ), William Gaunt (bass) & Peter Stevens (organ)
Westminster Cathedral Choir, Martin Baker
This is a disc for those who love the acoustic, the atmosphere and the musical traditions of the Roman Catholic Cathedral in London...This is a large choir, very good at big effects. The pacing... — More…
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It is a stunning album, intelligently paced, and the performances teem in subtle musicality and softly spoken charisma. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2023, Recording of the Month
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Sanctissima
RecommendedVespers and Benediction For the Feast of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary
ORA Singers, Suzi Digby
Olivier Tarney’s awestruck depiction of the Assumption in In Homeward Flight – the only English-language setting on the programme – was the work which made the strongest initial impact on me,... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 18th August 2023
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Roma æterna
Two Roman masses
Tim Keeler (countertenor), Andrew Fuchs (tenor) & Jonathan Woody (bass-baritone)
New York Polyphony
The all-male, one-to-a-part treatment adopted here is rare, not to say unique…New York Polyphony’s approach is almost intimate, its details articulated from within…the blend and unanimity of... — More…
