Chanticleer, America’s premier all-male choral ensemble, has created an absolutely exquisite album with this recording of a parody Mass by the Franco-Flemish composer Antoine Brumel. For his melodic source material, Brumel chose a secular song by Josquin Desprez: “Berzerette savoyenne.” From that tune he builds a complex edifice of devotional music that is performed with luminous tone and hushed wonder by Chanticleer, resulting in one of their most gorgeous releases.
The Choir of King's College London, David Trendell
Ordo Virtutem
Ars Choralis Coeln, Maria Jonas
Del Cinque: Sonatas for Three Cellos
Teodoro Baù, Cristina Vidoni, Ludovico Minasi
Cristo: Magnificat, Marian Antiphons & Missa Salve regina
Luís Toscano, Cupertinos
Baltic Voices 1
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Paul Hillier
Praise to the Lord: Hymn Favourites from St Paul’s Cathedral
St. Paul's Cathedral Choir, John Goss, Christopher Dearnley, John Scott, William Croft, John Roberts, Friedrich Silcher, Arthur Somervell, Herbert Stanley Oakeley, John Darwall, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Edwin George Monk, Clement Cotterill Scholefield, Hubert Parry, John Stainer, Felix Mendelssohn, The English Brass Ensemble, English Brass Ensemble
The Old Colony Collection
Harry Christophers, Handel & Haydn Society
A Spanish Nativity
Stile Antico
Thomas Tallis: Queen Katherine Parr & Songs of Reformation
Alamire, Fretwork
Citadel of Song: Ballate from Boccaccio’s Decameron
Anakronos, Caitríona O'Leary
Vicente Lusitano: Motets
The Marian Consort
The Gate of Glory: Music from the Eton Choirbook, Vol. 5
Christ Church Cathedral Choir, Oxford, Stephen Darlington
