Palestrina, volume 8
G. P. da Palestrina
Emneord
Minder om
Choral works
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Responsoria pro hebdomada sancta
Johann Dismas Zelenka
Requiem
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Requiem : grande messe des morts
Hector Berlioz
Officium pro omnibus fidelibus defunctis
Orlando di Lasso
Resurrection of Christ
Heinrich Schütz
Mozart x 3
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Kopirin
Vokalselskabet Glas
Matthäus-Passion
Johann Sebastian Bach
Anmeldelser (3)
MusicWeb international
2019 June
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Brian Wilson (musikanmelder)
2019 June
"Recommended: This recording is of the polychoral music of Hieronymus Prætorius ... [and] this new 2-CD set - a fairly short two CDs, it has to be admitted - will serve very well to demonstrate the reason for his contemporary fame ... The 'recommended' accolade is partly for the quality of the music, the performances, recording and presentation, and partly to celebrate the launch of the new label ... All those other recordings offer good or very good supplements to the new album from Alamire, but this is now my prime recommendation for this neglected composer. I reiterate that the quality of the music, performances, recording and presentation all add up my putting this forward for serious consideration as a Recording of the Month".
BBC music magazine
2019 September
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Paul Riley (musikanmelder)
2019 September
"Choral & song choice: It's the latest scrupulously researched project from Alamire, and director David Skinner has plundered Michael Praetorius's Syntagma Musicum for ideas as to how to present the music of a near-contemporary, who ... was not, in fact, related ... Skinner rings the changes, sometimes doubling a vocal line with brass, sometimes deleting voices altogether; and he holds a Danish ace up his sleeve in the guise of the Roskilde Cathedral organ ... Across the discs, Skinner contrives a glorious earful ... Nowhere does the Danish organ sound as if parachuted in ... Turn the volume to 'max' and wallow!".
The gramophone
2019 August
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Edward Breen
2019 August
"The largest motet, Decantabat populus a 20 is a text about singing praises. Despite grand forces and wide vocal ranges, the textures avoid heaviness through use of word-rhythms and sprightly polychoral exchanges ... I love the warm, unhurried grandeur His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts bring to this performance, and they are well balanced with the superb singers of Alamire ... I found the purely vocal performances less engaging ... Stephen Farr's performances on the magnificent organ of Roskilde Cathedral are joyful ... bring an exiting injection of colour and texture to the whole disc".