'Harmonies of Devotion' named Gramophone Editor's Choice

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Harmonies of Devotion

Congratulations to Professor Owen Rees whose latest CD with early-music vocal ensemble Contrapunctus is Editor's Choice in the latest issue of Gramophone. The album, entitled Harmonies of Devotion, is both an exploration of the Italian motet repertory of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries and a celebration of the devotion to this sacred repertory displayed by English antiquarian collectors of the eighteenth century.

Fabrice Fitch writes of the album:

The Steffani is particularly impressive, from its earworm of an opening to the final peroration, with both languor and extroversion in between. The ensemble here is frequently superb. Rees's singers ornament their lines subtly. One would gladly hear more in the same vein; that said, that they do so at all is very welcome.

You can read the full review at gramophone.co.uk/review/harmonies-of-devotion

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