Early Music Vocal Ensemble
Stile Antico is one of the world’s finest vocal ensembles, renowned for vibrant and expressive performances of music from the Renaissance.
A magnificent display of the very best kind of polyphonic music.
Anthony Pryer, BBC Music Magazine
An ensemble of breathtaking freshness, vitality and balance.
Steve Smith, New York Times
Perhaps the most ravishing sound I heard this year.
Alex Ross, The New Yorker
This has to be Stile Antico’s best album to date: it’s certainly their most gripping and, as ever with this ensemble, the vocal sound is sumptuous throughout… It’s rather thrilling therefore to hear Stile Antico… tap in to the dramatic excitement and atmospheric intensity now associated with these works.
Ed Breen, Gramophone (May 2018)
Also from Harmonia Mundi this month is a new recording of a much more familiar set of Tenebrae Responsories, by Tomás Luis de Victoria, composed in Rome more than 70 years before Lambert’s collection. These are transcendently beautiful choral settings, a sequence of 18 unaccompanied, four-part motets that are both profoundly restrained and dramatically compelling at... continued
A performance with breathtaking control, precise execution, and astonishing text and structural clarity. I haven’t heard choral singing of this quality in years…
James C.S. Liu, Boston Musical Intelligencer (11 April, 2018)
Stile Antico’s arresting readings never felt imposed upon Victoria’s writing. Often, I couldn’t help feeling that these singers had unleashed rhetorical power that was always there, albeit under the surface.
David Patrick Stearns, The Arts Journal (13 April, 2018)
Sunday, 29 April, 2018 at 7:30 pm
Winchester College
New Hall, Winchester College, Winchester, United Kingdom
Stile Antico records exclusively for Harmonia Mundi. Its bestselling discs have received all of the major European industry awards, and have drawn outstanding reviews from critics the world over.
Gramophone Award for Early Music, 2009
Diapason d’or de l’année, 2007
Diapason d’or, 2008, 2010, 2013
Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik
2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2013
Edison Klassiek Award, 2011
Grammy® Nominee, Best Small Ensemble Performance, 2008, 2010, 2018
