Stile Antico: Passion & Resurrection – review

Harmonia MundiBeautifully presented as always, the latest collection from the conductor-less choir Stile Antico is of music "inspired by Holy Week". That loose description doesn't fit Tallis's sublime O sacrum convivium, but the repertory ranges from classic Gibbons for Palm Sunday to one real discovery, an Easter motet by the little-known Jean l'Héritier, with a contemporary setting of Woefully Arrayed by John McCabe in the centre. Is the perfectly blended Stile Antico sound too uniform for al...

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