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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Mary Star of the Sea - see Andrew Benson-Wilson's Blog here Linn CKD541. 74’00 Joanne Metcalf: Il nome del bel fior; Andrew Smith: Stond wel, Moder, under rode; and pieces by Godric of Finchale, Leonel Power, Dunstaple, Richard Smert, and Anonymous. This beautiful recording contrasts music by contemporary composers...
Gothic Voices are very happy to have been invited back to the York Early Music Christmas Festival. Our concert with take place at 7.30pm on Friday 9th December in the National Centre for Early Music, St. Margaret's Church, Walmgate, York Y01 9TL. We will be...