SACD, Josquin (composer)

These 12 arrangements (by the ensemble) are of stylistic and historical diversity...Muhly’s Look for Me invests a US folk song with dark jazz; Janacek’s Zdenka Variations is an appealing discovery. — Sunday Times, 24th June 2018More…

The period instrument specialists from Savall's Hespèrion XXI and voices from La Capella Reial de Catalunya lay down beautifully simple settings for guest vocalists from various cultures, notably... — The Independent, 29th December 2012, 5 out of 5 starsMore…

With an atmospheric cover of a destroyed chapel interior, this disc of mainly 16th-century vocal music is all about death and decay...Plainsong interleaves the polyphony: the effect is ethereally... — The Observer, 22nd July 2012More…

there’s a sense of eavesdropping on a spontaneous yet eloquently-argued soliloquy. Colouring is subtle, conversational banter deftly managed, and Lindberg’s tempos always feel spot on, allowing... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2017, 5 out of 5 starsMore…

The sonic journey takes in the exotic sounds of Al-Andalus with Sephardic laments and improvisations inspired by Arab and Jewish oral traditions; elegant songs and dances from the Spanish court,... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2007, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

Not surprisingly, this is unrelentingly austere stuff. If, however, choral gloom is your bag, it is also an imaginatively programmed recital, immaculately sung and recorded in superb sound. — BBC Music Magazine, June 2021, 5 out of 5 starsMore…