Glowing review of our new Echoes CD – Recommended
“The performance is splendid with not a hint of Gothic Voices handling the music with kid gloves. They really let rip.” Music Web International Echoes of an Old HallMusic from the Old Hall ManuscriptGothic Voicesrec. 27-30 October 2018, Boxgrove Priory, Chichester, UKTexts and translations includedReviewed…
Echoes of an Old Hall: our new CD is released this week
RELEASE JUNE 2021 CKD644 GOTHIC VOICES ECHOES OF AN OLD HALL Gothic Voices’ eagerly awaited new album features music from The Old Hall Manuscript: a wonderful collection of classy compositions from late fourteenth- to early fifteenth-century England. It embodies the English ‘flavour’ of music of…
A great Gramophone review
GRAMOPHONE – January 2020 It seems extraordinary that this should be Gothic Voices’ first Christmas-themed album; nevertheless, it has been worth the wait to hear these well-known works performed by this ensemble. Choosing music for the Advent and Christmas season, including the Feast of the…
“It’s mesmerising” – The Sunday Times
The Sunday Times… As the name suggests, Gothic Voices are medieval specialists, and their programme of 12th- to 15th-century music is another festive selection. They begin with Veni, o sapientia, but even as long as five centuries ago, Christmas was a vernacular feast, as the…
Le Figaro – “a daring exercise in style”
On the eve of its fortieth anniversary, the British vocal quartet, founded by the medieval tenor Julian Podger, reminds us that the repertoire of medieval music is not limited to Hildegarde von Bingen. With Nowell synge we bothe al and som, reconstruction of an imaginary Christmas…
#12 UK Specialist Classical Chart
We were number 12 in the UK Specialist Classical Chart last week! It’s not too late to buy your copy.
Musicweb International – top seasonal recommendation
The initial review: This is the only one of these Christmas offerings that I could bring myself to hear in mid-October – too early for the holly and the mistletoe. If I say that it’s everything that I expected from the resuscitated Gothic Voices, that’s high praise indeed. Without…
Glowing review from Notulae
Gothic Voices – Nowell synge we bothe al and som – Notulae The generous anthology offered by Gothic Voices is composed with intelligence and subtlety; it perfectly translates the mixture of expectation, sweetness, serenity and jubilation that attaches to the period of the Nativity. Without…
Observer: The best classical Christmas albums of 2019
The best classical Christmas albums of 2019 …the four-strong Gothic Voices with Nowell synge we both al and som (Linn), offering a “feast of Christmas music in medieval England”, mostly “anon”… Fiona Maddocks, 7 December 2019
Disc of the Week from Europadisc
From Europadisc: “Our #discoftheweek is a Christmas album that really stands out from the crowd. Medieval specialists Gothic Voices reimagine the traditional carol concert as it might have taken place in the 15th century. The result is a festive feast of early English music, superbly sung… all…
