23 Dec Don’t Miss Record Review BBC Radio 3 on Christmas Eve
Listen out for our new CD Mary Star of the Sea on BBC Radio 3's Record Review on Saturday morning, 24th December, Christmas Eve. It should be on at around 10.25 am. Buy your copy here. ...
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23 Dec No 1 Choice – BBC Music Magazine – Christmas Events
BBC Music Magazine, December 2016 LIVE CHOICE: 20 UNMISSABLE EVENTS FOR CHRISTMAS 2016 Our pick of the best Christmas concerts and operas, plus a guide to Rimsky-Korsakov’s Christmas Eve GOTHIC VOICES Holkham Hall, Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk, 3 Dec Ahead of performances at the Tower of London and York Early...
23 Dec The Sunday Times – Tower of London concert
The Sunday Times, Paul Driver, December 2016 Across town, Spitalfields Music, celebrating 40 years of Festivals, launched its latest winter edition… The vocal quartet of Gothic Voices unfolded an imaginative Marian sequence of 12th – 15th century settings, with modern interpolations by Joanne Metcalf and Andrew...
23 Dec MusicWeb International Review of Mary Star of the Sea
14 October 2016 MusicWeb International Brian Wilson Medieval and contemporary works are combined in a programme of music in honour of the Virgin Mary: Mary Star of the Sea. Gothic Voices, too infrequent visitors to the recording studios since making their wonderful albums for Hyperion. The singers are Catherine King...
23 Dec York Press Review of our York Concert
York Early Music Christmas Festival. National Centre for Early Music, 9 December 2016 The York Press, Robert Gammon, 12 December 2016 During its 30 years, the distinguished vocal group Gothic Voices have built up quite a following. The National Centre for Early Music was full for their...
23 Dec The Guardian – Review – York Concert
York Early Music Christmas Festival, December 2016 “York early music Christmas festival created an opportunity to hear how the words of the Magnificat flowered in the minds of composers over some 250 years. The earliest, by the 15th-century English composer John Dunstaple was a sublimely minimal...
01 Dec 5* Review in Choir and Organ magazine
This welcome revitalisation of an iconic group is characterised by warmth of tone and beautiful blend. Their selection of Marian medieval monody and polyphony, arranged with the greatest care and taste into two parts expressing her heavenly and human attributes, includes Latin and old English...
19 Nov 19 November 2017 – Forum Alte Musik Köln – “Motets and songs by Guillaume Dufay”
Sunday 19th November 2017, 5 pm, Trinitatiskirche, Köln (Cologne), Germany Part of Forum Alte Musik Köln Tickets €20/€12 Motets and songs by Guillaume Dufay (c.1397-1474) - as featured on our new Linn CD, to be released in March 2018...
19 Sep 4* Review in the Financial Times
GOTHIC VOICES - MARY STAR OF THE SEA - FINANCIAL TIMES 09 September 2016 Financial Times Richard Fairman 4 Stars Ancient and modern often sit alongside in sacred music. In putting together a musical portrait of Mary, mother of Jesus, Gothic Voices have turned to composers medieval and contemporary. The mood...
17 Sep Gothic Voices in the Tower of London
We are delighted to be part of the Spitalfields Winter Festival on Sunday 4th December this year. We will be performing Mary Star of the Sea (the programme of our new CD with Linn Records) in the chapel in the Tower of London. It should be...