Leçons de ténèbres
François Couperin
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Anmeldelser (3)
The guardian
d. 15. mar. 2018
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Andrew Clements (musikanmelder)
d. 15. mar. 2018
"The performance certainly seems to be smooth enough, if a little unrelenting, though the rather closeup perspective of the recording may have something to do with that".
BBC music magazine
2018 June
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Jan Smaczny
2018 June
"The performers on this pioneering recording have gone to considerable lengths to match up the complex vocal line with the accompaniment, and the results are musically very convincing. Alongside the steady tread of the Leçons there are instrumental interludes, all expressively played ... Mauillon has great vocal dexterity and deals with the almost ceaseless ornamental demands of Lambert's setting fearlessly, but in the end sounds rather too monochrome".
The gramophone
2018 June
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Julie Anne Sadie
2018 June
"Editor's choice: Mauillon ... is especially well placed, vocally, to realise the quasi-improvisational, spiritual qualities of Lambert's sublimely conceived music ... He has chosen remarkable collaborators, each prepared to immerse themselves in the relationship between text and music ... The unwavering, honest quality of Mauillon's reedy voice - so suited to earlier music - works perfectly in this context, creating the sense of a cantus firmus on which the instrumentalists elaborate ... Might this release have laid down a new benchmark in the revival of 17th-century performing practices? I think so".