Browse: Palestrina - Ave Maria

The sharp, jabbing gestures at the opening of Gabriel Jackson’s new setting of the Stabat Mater…announce that wilting introspection is by no means the composer’s default position in his response... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The whole effect is quasi-theatrical without being melodramatic. The Mass also has its virtues from the vigour of the Kyrie...to the delicate duetting of the Osanna. The recording retains the... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2011, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The Vienna Vocal Consort are a mixed a cappella quintet whose solid basic timbre bespeaks a certain experience of singing together. — Gramophone Magazine, October 2017 More…

This is the new Italian sound of renaissance church music: a gentle vibrato, but a wonderfully loose and relaxed sound with a kind of breathy production. In the normal four-voice Palestrina texture... — Gramophone Magazine More…

In [the Ave Maria] they also use falsettist countertenors, whose tone noticeably lightens the overall texture and helps to find a more intimate quality. This result is fascinating: the sheer... — Gramophone Magazine, October 2016 More…

This anthology constructs a narrative through Italian music ranging acoross more than a century, from about 1580 to 1700, and most of the pieces are transcriptions taken from short sacred polyphony... — Gramophone Magazine, September 2015 More…