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Harmonia Mundi: HMC80195440 Voices | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
While the latter half of the sixteenth century saw the first stirrings of the Baroque, this period also witnessed the creation of the finest cathedrals in sound, with their foundations in the distant Gothic era of music ... Composers vied with each other in daring and ingenuity, presenting works with twelve, sixteen, twenty-four and even, in the case of Tallis’s famous Spem in alium, forty different voices! The Huelgas Ensemble celebrates its thirty-fifth anniversary with a spectacular selection of these works, recorded live without a ‘safety net’. Also out this week is the Huelgas-Ensemble's new release of Three Renaissance Masses - sure to get great reviews and to sell very well. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Press comments: “Willem Ceuleers’s 35-part motet Nomen mortis infame is an artful exercise in polyphonic pastiche, with Iberian glamour in its trills and sombre Low Countries heft in its structure; Josquin’s Qui habitat sounds more modern. If Spem in alium and Striggio’s Ecce beatam lucem inevitably dominate this disc, the 12-, 13-, and 16-part motets by Wylkinson, Comes and Rebelo are equally attractive.” Anna Picard, The Independent on Sunday, 14 January 2007 “What a spectacular way to mark the 35th anniversary of one of Europe’s leading early vocal ensembles!” Matthew Simpkins, Choir and Organ, March/April 2007 “this live recording testifies to their astonishing dynamism, energy and coherence.”Fabrice Fitch, Gramophone recommends, Gramophone, March 2007 Radio 3 Disc of the Week | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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