The Dufay spectacle

"BR Klassik empfiehlt: Dass die Gothik Voices diese Musik mit Leben erfüllen, kann man durchaus wörtlich nehmen. Bei aller Klarheit der Darstellung - und die ist, auch wenn Instrumente hinzutreten, geradezu vorbildlich - steht immer der Ausdruck an erster Stelle ... Die verschiedenen Stimmlagen und Instrumente werden mit grossem Einfühlungsvermögen den jeweiligen Stücken angepasst. Beeindruckend ist die klangliche Abwechslung und Bandbreite ... Ein wahrlich prachtvoller Blumenstrauss ist das, den uns die Gothic Voices hier präsentieren".

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"Under Christopher Page it was the policy to sing a capella with just an occasional harp being employed. For their previous discs with Linn the same concept has been adopted but with this beautifully produced CD more instruments have been added, producing a disc of greater colour and variety than in the past ... One way in which this disc matches all of the earlier ones is that there is a theme, an overall concept ... It's hard not to see Andrew Lawrence King's influence considering other recordings he has been involved with ... And I for one welcome their new direction and look foreword to see where it will next lead them".

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"Editor's choice: It looks very much as though Julian Podger is the presiding genius; and he has chosen the repertory very well ... [The five motets are] presented in what seem to me the most intelligent and musically transparent performances ... To mention all the glorious details here would break the banks of this review but I cannot avoid mentioning the marvellously experienced singing of Catherine King and her duetting with Steven Harrold: that is seriously classy".