[ Harmonia Mundi SACD / Hybrid SACD ]
Release Date: Thursday 1 March 2012
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"Stile Antico's sleek tuning and supple attention to words, and the studio recording, intimate but not claustrophobic, do bring a carefully plotted span (over 120 years) of sacred styles into our listening rooms with rare success." Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine May 2012
"We are, perhaps, in a wood-panelled Elizabethan hall, where in the early 17th century the family of a large house gather for their private prayer. Voices and viols mix in harmony, ranging from the familiar simplicity of Thomas Campion's "Never weather-beaten sail" to the elaborate verse anthem by Orlando Gibbons's "See, see the word is incarnate"...Another triumph" The Observer, 29th January 2012
"The beautifully blended voices of Stile Antico give this music with all the intensity that its emotional content merits. But then every work here fairly burns itself on the heart." Sunday Times, 12th February 2012
"the performances are wonderfully fresh, revelling in the harmonic false relations and affectingly attentive to the import of the words." The Telegraph, 18th February 2012 *****
"a varied treasure trove of seldom heard but extremely affecting music, nicely sung and spliced together with some darkly-glittering string In Nomines played by Fretwork...[They] easily persuade us that there is such a thing as beautiful simplicity." BBC Music Magazine, April 2012 ****
Amner:
O ye little flock
A stranger here
Browne, J:
Jesu, mercy, how may this be?
Byrd:
Why do I use my paper, inke and penne?
Campion:
Never weather-beaten sail
Croce:
From profound centre of my heart
Dowland:
I shame at mine unworthiness
Gibbons, O:
See, see, the Word is incarnate
Parsons, R:
In nomine a 4 No. 1
In nomine a 4 No. 2
Ramsey, R:
How are the mighty fallen
Tallis:
Purge me, O Lord
Taverner:
In nomine a 4
Tomkins:
O Praise the Lord, All Ye Heathen
When David Heard