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The Scholars manage to keep the texture light, without sacrificing anything in the way of richness. It is a very skilful, immediately attractive setting. Even more impressive are the seven... — Gramophone Magazine, April 2006 More…

[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... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2010, 4 out of 5 stars More…

These performances seem to glow with an inner light. I don’t see how they could be improved upon. — Fanfare, March/April 2020 More…

The centrepiece of the CD, though, is his Mass based on a famous chanson by Janequin depicting the Battle of Marignano in 1515. Guerrero selects the deceptively simple opening music as his... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2009, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Alonso Lobo is best known for one work, his setting of the funerary Versa est in luctum. This is undoubtedly a masterpiece of its kind but to have it placed alongside other pieces from his 1602... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

The 38-strong Spanish choir produces a sound that is rich yet at the same time remarkably intimate and crystalline. The group’s honorary director is Peter Phillips and something of the silvery... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2021, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

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... — Gramophone Magazine, October 2016 More…

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... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2020, 4 out of 5 stars More…