Choral, Masses, Brumel, A (composer)

The Scholars take [the Missa Mater Patris] at an aptly reverential tread, capturing its introspective – at times hypnotic – qualities…The Scholars realise [the Bauldeweyn] with all the precision,... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2019, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The result is an immersive experience of near-Stockhausenesque scope, largely successful on its own terms, with superlative playing and deft transitions between the Mass and the new materials. — Gramophone Magazine, May 2024 More…

This performance imagines them being sung in a 16th-century nunnery, so Brumel’s original low-voice scoring is transposed for female singers, with an organ and a viol providing lower parts.... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2020, 3 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

With an atmospheric cover of a destroyed chapel interior, this disc of mainly 16th-century vocal music is all about death and decay...Plainsong interleaves the polyphony: the effect is ethereally... — The Observer, 22nd July 2012 More…

The programme showcases [Brumel's] heterogenous style...and the group's radiant sound - superbly captured in the open, silvery recording - illuminates the multiple texts of this glittering musical... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2014, 5 out of 5 stars More…

If you’ve ever caught yourself regretting the uniformity of performance approaches to Renaissance vocal music, this disc may be for you. — Gramophone Magazine, December 2021 More…