Hi Res Download, Palestrina (composer)

Niquet appropriately creates a liturgical framework, weaving plainchant, motets and instrumental items around the main work; these also serve to contrast with and complement the sometimes gluttonously... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2018, 5 out of 5 stars/4 out of 5 stars More…

Having thoroughly internalised this music, Phillips creates a reading of great authority. The greatest contrast between the two Merton College recordings… is the choir's sound: this now commands... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2007, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Vestiva explores how the art of embellishment revolutionised instrumental music in the 16th and 17th centuries, allowing performers to openly flaunt both their virtuosic and improvisatory skills... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2024, 4 out of 5 stars 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…

the jutting vocal fanfares of [Weir's] Ave Regina caelorum set a brightly celebratory atmosphere at the disc's beginning...The seven-part writing of Hannah Kendall's numinous Regina caeli is... — BBC Music Magazine, Awards Issue 2015, 4 out of 5 stars 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…