To these three shrines come most of the best choirs from Britain and further afield, and on the evidence of A Wondrous Mystery on the second evening of the Temple Winter Festival, there’s none more sheerly perfect than Stile Antico, now 10 years old.
David Nice, The Arts Desk (16 December, 2015)
Stile Antico has produced another pure-voiced, imaginatively programmed disc with this selection of mostly German Renaissance carols and motets.
Fiona Maddocks, The Observer (13 December, 2015)
This is sure to be a justly popular Christmas choice. it is a smooth and assured album and both the ensemble sound and the individual voices are extremely attractive.
Edward Breen, Gramophone (December 2015)
Tudor polyphony is music with enough strength, passion, beauty and drama to soar and inspire across the world. And on Friday night, with Stile Antico so cleanly expressive, so lithe, so well integrated and balanced, this wonderful repertoire had the world’s best possible ambassadors.
Geoff Brown, The Arts Desk (29 November, 2015)
The a cappella performances are consistently beautiful and soothing throughout, and the quietly joyous mood of the music fits the album’s title perfectly.
Blair Sanderson, All Music Guide
A fine SACD from Stile Antico… glorious performances of works from church services from the Renaissance period.
Mel Martin, Audiophile Audition (21 November, 2015)
Impeccable… The sinuous yearning of Clemens’s Agnus Dei is a triumph of fluid phrasing and dynamic shaping, and a reminder of the formidable credentials of this group.
Terry Blain, BBC Music Magazine (December 2015)
Stile Antico presented the concert with their usual effortless brilliance… the music seems to form organically in the space between the twelve singers.
Barry Creasy, MusicOMH.com (27 November, 2015)
Beautiful voices, clear and honest engineering, and pretty package… no mystery about its appeal.
David Patrick Stearns, Philadelphia Inquirer (22 November, 2016)
Emma reports on Stile’s return to one of our favourite destinations: “I got more than a few raised eyebrows when I told people I was taking my five week old baby to Switzerland so I could work, but I explained this was really an unmissable trip – after all, it’s not every day you are…
A consistently entertaining and often enlightening program… Hieronymus Praetorius’ Magnificat is one of the two special highlights, with its well-integrated tribute to the famous tune “In dulci jubilo” and some absolutely sublime singing… You won’t hear finer singing anywhere.
David Vernier, Classics Today (October 2015)
All selections are performed with that knowledgeable approach to Renaissance practices that has established and affirmed Stile Antico’s place in the early music community. However, their approach to expressiveness is anything but academically sterile.
Stephen Smoliar, Examiner.com (20 October, 2015)