‘In a Strange Land’ praised in the Telegraph
Superb… as a survey of the beautifully wrought and moving church music of England’s hidden Catholics, this CD could hardly be bettered.
Ivan Hewitt, The Daily Telegraph (13 January, 2019)
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Superb… as a survey of the beautifully wrought and moving church music of England’s hidden Catholics, this CD could hardly be bettered.
Ivan Hewitt, The Daily Telegraph (13 January, 2019)
Stile Antico… sing with glowing perfection and textural precision
Ken Walton, The Scotsman (January 14th, 2019)
Stile Antico, as ever, excel in plangency… their sound is meltingly gorgeous.
Edward Breen, Gramophone (January 2019)
The dozen voices of Stile Antico give achingly expressive performances of Elizabethan masterpieces…
SP, Sunday Times (6th January, 2019)
The ensemble blends beautifully, so the harmonies seem to glow… an ecstatic performance.
Classical Iconoclast (11 December, 2018)
These were singers who knew just when to bring out an inner voice, just when to emphasize a climactic note or a pivotal dissonance. They always knew where the music was going and why. It was a superb concert.
Scott Cantrell, Dallas Morning News (16 December, 2018)
Stile Antico sensibly brings a variety of pace to its performances… the singers inject plenty of Latin passion into their clear, English choral sound.
Tony Way, Limelight (14 June, 2018)
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)
Stile Antico’s performance – the settings for each day separated by plainsong – seems to capture that mix of austerity and contained intensity perfectly.
Andrew Clements, The Observer (15 March, 2018)
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)
Beginning with Jesus’s betrayal in the garden and ending with the entombment, there’s a profound sense of peace and meditation to Victoria’s masterly settings. With a spirited rendition of Guerrero’s joyful motet Maria Magdalene giving a lift at the end, it was hard not to emerge from such a concert without feeling refreshed and cleansed of spirit.
Clive Paget, Limelight Magazine (11 April, 2018)