The Brabant Ensemble / Stephen Rice
Release Date: 03 November 2023
Label: Hyperion Records Ltd
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 034571284088
Description
With radiant accounts from The Brabant Ensemble of the Mass, a Magnificat and a selection of motets, this album of first recordings is a major addition to Guerrero's still select discography.
"Stephen Rice's vocal forces generate an appropriate emotional response. The six-voice Gaude Barbara (a motet celebrating St Barbara) is suitably energetic, while the more restrained Quomodo cantabimus canticum Domini (Psalm 136) brings expressive weight to the plight of the Jews fleeing Jerusalem. If not quite inhabiting a sense of grief, its long-limbed phrases bring yearning to this intimate account." – Opera Today
JEAN MOUTON: Missa Faulte d'argent & Motets (CDA68385)
"The Brabant Ensemble perform his works with verve and brilliance." - Gramophone
"The Brabant Ensemble is, as always, outstanding the precision of tone, vibrabcy and ensemble flawless......an exceptional disc." - Yorkshire Times
JOSQUIN DES PREZ: Motets & Mass Movements (CDA68321)
The ensemble's sound is clean and ingenuous throughout: boyish sopranos and altos are balanced by fresh-voiced tenors and basses, intonation is nigh flawless. Rice and his singers subtly capture the emotional and spiritual gamut of these works." - BBC Music Magazine
Tracklisting
Mishka Rushdie Momen
The Gesualdo Six / Owain Park
Takacs Quartet
Simon Callaghan, Sinfonieorchester St Gallen
Cinquecento
Andrey Gugnin
El Leon de Oro / Peter Phillips
Piers Lane
BachWerkVokal, Gordon Safari
Dionysos Now!
Soloists; Les Traversees Baroques; Meyer
The Gesualdo Six / Owain Park
La Compagnia del Madrigale
Cappella Pratensis, Stratton Bull, Sollazzo Ensemble
Frieder Bernius, Klassische Philharmonie Stuttgart, Barockorchester Stuttgart, Hofkapelle Stuttgart
Collegium Cantorum Choir, Janusz Siadlak
