Stile Antico is often touted as one of Britain’s finest early music a cappella choirs… It’s a hard accolade to uphold, but one that’s hard to deny.

Stile Antico are the perfect artists for this repertory, bringing equal measures of clarity and passion to the music.

The English singers of Stile Antico are able to point up all these features with the tip of a brush, often attaining truly exciting interpretations…

Distancing itself from the traditional English choral delivery of cold perfection (“angelic”, but emotionally dry) and without a conductor, Stile Antico astonished us with a unique transparency of sound,

This concert achieved an exalted level of communication, and I doubt there was anyone in the audience that wasn’t spellbound by the end.

Our spirits soared; they always do when Stile Antico break forth with European liturgical choral music.

Stile Antico presented the audience with a musical garment of contrasting colours and textures through artful use of dynamics, phrasing and punctuation.

Anyone thinking of renaissance music as arcane, stuffy, or even naive might have been astonished at the Sunday afternoon concert by the superb British choral ensemble Stile Antico.

The ensemble highlighted the dramatic alternation of imitative and declamatory passages, leading to a wonderful melismatic flourish at the close…

The rewards of this outstanding disc are double. On one hand, one is presented with the marvel of High Polyphony performed to perfection. On the other hand, there is a feeling that new doors have been opened.

This selection of motets, mostly for five or six voices, is unexpectedly rich in imagination, variety, and often sheer joyful energy, and the performances boast a high-quality technical brilliance.

Stile Antico brings brilliantly to life this highly varied selection of Wert’s beautiful motets.