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Reviews (5)
MusicWeb international
2023 March
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Ralph Moore (musikanmelder)
2023 March
"This is the second volume of Stile Antico's 'Golden Renaissance' trilogy of recordings, commemorating the 400th anniversary of William Byrd ... The programme here concentrates on his later work written between 1605 and 1611, except for the final work, which is from 1575, and artfully intersperses his Mass for Four Voices and the Propers for the Feast of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary with "sacred songs" in both English and Latin ... Stile Antico are few enough in number for us to be able to hear individual voices but I do not mean to imply by that that there is any lack of homogeneous blend. The wide leaps, sustained dissonances and long lines in Byrd's music hold no fears for them ... Much of this music was unfamiliar to me, but it is consistently beguiling; complex, melodic, absorbing, never dull or routine".
Klassisk
2023, nr. 69
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Marie-Louise Zervides
2023, nr. 69
"I 1590'erne drog den midaldrede William Byrd til landsbyen Stondon Massey i Essex, hvor han kunne nyde en stille semi-pensionisttilværelse indtil sin død som 80-årig for præcis 400 år siden ... Det er disse sene år, som står i centrum på det britiske vokalensemble Stile Anticos anden plade i 'Golden Renaissance'-trilogien ... De fremfører musikken med enorm indlevelse og en ren, naturlig klang, som passer til Byrds klare tonesprog ... Alt i alt er denne udgivelse en fantastisk introduktion til William Byrd".
Diapason
2023 avril
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Guillaume Bunel
2023 avril
BBC music magazine
2023 March
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Anthony Pryer
2023 March
"Choral & song choice: There will be many recordings of Byrd's music in this 400th anniversary year of his death, but few will match the superb balance and poise of these performances from Stile Antico ... The singers capture perfectly the sheer beauty of Byrd's musical vision, and through their performance we do too".
The gramophone
2023 March
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Edward Breen
2023 March
"Editor's choice: These are notoriously difficult pieces but Stile Antico sing them with great poise, particularly the complex flourishes in Propter veritatem ... Some of the richest singing I have heard from this ensemble".