SACD, Josquin (composer)

there’s a sense of eavesdropping on a spontaneous yet eloquently-argued soliloquy. Colouring is subtle, conversational banter deftly managed, and Lindberg’s tempos always feel spot on, allowing... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2017, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Not surprisingly, this is unrelentingly austere stuff. If, however, choral gloom is your bag, it is also an imaginatively programmed recital, immaculately sung and recorded in superb sound. — BBC Music Magazine, June 2021, 5 out of 5 stars More…

With an atmospheric cover of a destroyed chapel interior, this disc of mainly 16th-century vocal music is all about death and decay...Plainsong interleaves the polyphony: the effect is ethereally... — The Observer, 22nd July 2012 More…

These 12 arrangements (by the ensemble) are of stylistic and historical diversity...Muhly’s Look for Me invests a US folk song with dark jazz; Janacek’s Zdenka Variations is an appealing discovery. — Sunday Times, 24th June 2018 More…

The sonic journey takes in the exotic sounds of Al-Andalus with Sephardic laments and improvisations inspired by Arab and Jewish oral traditions; elegant songs and dances from the Spanish court,... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2007, 4 out of 5 stars More…

ambitious and sumptuous...this presentation has been fashioned by Savall as a piece of music theatre, and as a vivid attempt to commemmorate Joan's life it is unlikely to be bettered. — BBC Music Magazine, February 2013, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The period instrument specialists from Savall's Hespèrion XXI and voices from La Capella Reial de Catalunya lay down beautifully simple settings for guest vocalists from various cultures, notably... — The Independent, 29th December 2012, 5 out of 5 stars More…