Debut recordings rarely come as impressive as this... It suggests that Stile Antico have a future as bright as their pure and crystalline soprano sound. (Daily Telegraph, March 2007)

This is a richly varied and moving program... The quality of the performances by Stile Antico is as good as any I have ever heard in this repertoire... a major debut by an exciting ensemble of talented young singers who have immediately staked a claim at the very top the heap. (Early Music America, Summer 2007)

The singing is staggeringly beautiful, the balance meticulous. (Sunday Times, February 2007)

Absolutely ravishing performances by Stile Antico, among the most promising vocal groups to come along in the last 20 years. These well-matched and perfectly tuned young voices are a joy to hear, and their singing style conveys a level of excitement in the rhythms and vibrancy in the harmonies that's unusual to hear and rare to experience on a recording... In its debut on Harmonia Mundi Stile Antico has given choral music lovers everywhere a reason to celebrate what looks like the beginning of another beautiful relationship! (Classics Today.)

This is a magnificent first recording. (Early Music Review, February 2007)

These polyphonic settings, true "songs of the night", glow with a mystical radiance, whose most poetic nuances are captured by the young vocal ensemble Stile Antico.... From the first notes of the Libera nos by Sheppard which opens the disc, one is struck by the maturity and acute sensitivity of this interpretation... Stile Antico demonstrate a joy in their singing which is literally euphoric. (Monde de la Musique, February 2007)

This is superb singing that's also blessed - I mean that literally - with profound delicacy and reverence. You sense the group is singing for its own spiritual good, with a combination of relaxed, introspective tempos and inner conviction... (Philadelphia Inquirer, March 2007)

This is one of those alchemic discs with a total greater than the sum of its parts... This is as near-perfect a recording as you will find of this repertoire, and one that sounds as fresh as the Tallis Scholars did 25 years ago. (Choir and Organ, April 2007)

The singing is simply extraordinary... surely one of the best early music recordings of the year. It will certainly have pride of place on many a shelf. (Opera Today, September 2007.)

They may have chosen to call themselves Stile Antico, but these thirteen singers strike a real blow for youth... With a magnificent tonal palette and bold choices of dynamics, the interpretation is remarkably cohesive and inventive... At the close of this rich office, the spell is such that we are convinced, in the words of Baudelaire, the twilight poet par excellence, that 'the world falls asleep in a warm light.' (Diapason, February 2007)

There's no shortage of groups, especially English ones, singing Renaissance polyphony, and such ensembles as the Tallis Scholars and the Sixteen have set the bar awfully high. But Stile Antico easily meets the standard... The members of Stile Antico demonstrate the immaculate ensemble work and balance of better-known groups - remarkably, since they sing without a conductor - but their sound is richer and more deeply hued. The final work on the CD - an antiphon by the much-neglected English composer Hugh Aston - is astonishing for its quiet spiritual intensity. (Boston Globe, March 2007)

Superb choral singing that stands out from the crowd of recordings of unaccompanied English music of the sixteenth century. (All Music Guide.)

This is a beautiful disc, rendered with dignity, purity, and understanding. (New York Sun, February 2007)

Stile Antico... sings with marvellous understanding and sympathy... Their blend and tonal luster is near perfection, and this album, with its glorious cathedral-like surround sound is a perfect foundation recording for music of the pre-reformation English church. (Audiophile Audition.)

The ensemble Stile Antico, a newcomer to the European choral scene, sings with such clarity and warmth of tone that fans of choral music would do well to take note... Their detailed and expressive take of Byrd’s Christe, qui lux es et dies is one of many sublime highlights... delivered with voices that are finely honed and bright, and glowing, golden tone. (Sacramento Bee, March 2007)

Shapely and stylish performances... an impressive sound, near perfect in precision and intonation... highly impressive. (American Record Guide, May 2007)

The singing is amazing... Stile Antico creates an intensity of forward musical motion that is breath-taking... a virtual manual on how to sing music from this era. (Choral Journal, May 2007)

On its first recording for Harmonia Mundi, the young British vocal ensemble Stile Antico reaches the very highest level. Their performance achieves a perfect balance between polyphonic clarity and sense of colour. Breathing as one, the members of Stile Antico give an ideal luminosity to their singing... Indispensable. (Opus Haute Définition.)