 | The Essential Tallis Scholars
Buy new: $21.98 / Used from: $15.88 Early music is still dominated by excellent English choirs such as the Tallis Scholars - it's high time we got an alternative view of things
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 | The Best of the Renaissance
Buy used from: $21.99 One main characteristic common to English choirs is their exclusive maintenance of head voice and a very bright sound
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 | The William Byrd Edition, Vol. 5: The Masses by William Byrd
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $12.23 The Cambridge choirs all have a uniform purity of sound together with strictly 'straight' phrasing
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 | Sound of a Cathedral: Gregorian Chant and Saxophone Improvisations
Buy new: $23.98 The Ensemble Officium won the 'Guido d'Arezzo' choral award in 1999 and is the finest early music choir active in Germany today with a slightly 'English' sound but more warmth and richer phrasing
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 | Heinrich Isaac: Missa Paschalis
Buy new: $23.98 Wilfried Rombach compares the Choralis Constantinus of Isaac with Bach's Cantatas, Masses and Passions - we are at last seeing the reawakening the Isaac tradition in German speaking countries
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 | Lamentatio: Music for Passiontide Ca 1500 by Ycart
Buy new: $23.98 Ensemble Officium continues the German Isaac tradition while allowing comparison with Josquin. A revelatory recording.
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 | Palestrina: Le Vergini
Buy new: $23.98 / Used from: $14.00 Ensemble Officium is one of the greatest exponents of Palestrina's music on record
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 | Palestrina: Missa Papae Marcelli
Buy new: $23.98 Ensemble Officium's Palestrina is as fine as any you care to name - another superb example of this talented choir's abilities
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 | Senfl: Composer of the Reformation
At last we have a world class German choir willing to explore sorely neglected German composers from the time of the Reformation
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 | Pierre de la Rue: Requiem; Missa de Beata Virgine
A wonderful recording of another badly neglected contemporary of Josquin - another wonderful success by this superb choir
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 | Utopia Triumphans by Huelgas Ensemble
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $5.99 Ensemble Officium's sound is somewhere in between the more frankly continental approach of the Huelgas Ensemble and the Tallis Scholars
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 | Dufay: O gemma lux by Guillaume Dufay
Buy used from: $124.95 European choirs have always been willing to color their sound with some chest voice to produce a richer, darker sound
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 | Josquin Desprez: Motets & Chansons by Josquin Desprez
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $12.51 Ensemble Officium take the Hilliard's willingness to phrase even further while having the smoother tone of a mixed choir
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