10-02-2022 Music Web International
"This may well be the first recording of the Missa Tua est potentia by Mouton, but even if it has been recorded before, its performance as part of a liturgical framework makes this recording something no lover of renaissance polyphony should miss.
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01-01-2022 Fanfare
"For anyone interested in Renaissance music this is a welcome acquisition. Listening to the liturgy unfold as it might have done in 16th century ‘s-Hertogensbosch is illuminating from a historical perspective, and the performances are first-rate."
01-10-2021 Diapason
"He restores here with perfect transparency a counterpoint of exceptional density, which does not eschew
dissonances (Kyrie), and the sometimes tortuous melodic designs.
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15-07-2021 Gramophone
"Cappella Pratensis’s homogeneity of timbre is impressive, especially in view of the many different registers in play. The cast is well matched from top to bottom in both the Mass and the motets. Taken as a whole, the latter make the more convincing impression (in the Gloria some of the choices of pitch may surprise), but the final sections of the Mass are the core of the experience, as they are in the liturgy. And the chant never plays second fiddle to the polyphony; the fact that it is rhythmicised is a further twist, which only adds to the project’s distinctiveness. "
15-07-2021 Luister
"The balance is good, the can sound is pleasant and absolutely convincing.
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13-07-2021 Gramophone
"Cappella Pratensis prove themselves to be an ensemble of exquisite skill, voices steeped in both artistry and personality, Jean Mouton’s music shaped and sung superbly."
12-07-2021 Klassik.com
"The five-part series about the Den Bosch choirbooks starts with a de la Rue-Mass of disarmingly high quality, embedded in a coherent liturgy format: sympathetically brought to life by Stratton Bull and Cappella Pratensis in the literal sense of the word."
10-04-2019 Music Web
"Missa Unitatis is a splendid work, superbly written for voices. It will appeal to any choral music lover looking for something a little out of the ordinary."
20-04-2018 Gramophone
"The combined forces of the Cappella Pratensis and Nederlands Kamerkoor impart plenty of zip and energy to these performances, to which should also be added impressive contributions by the Netherlands Female
Youth Choir in music by Poulenc, Verdi and Eriks Esenvalds."
31-01-2018 Scherzo
"To the full success in the election and sequencing of the program is added the superb performances of all the choirs. The Missa Unitatis stands out because of its size: it is a marvelous work full of enchantment, soul, depth and color. The Cappella Pratensis and the Netherlands Kamerkoor astonish equally with their virtuosity and musicality in abundance, in a throbbing performance that elevates the listener from beginning to end. An anthological album, without a doubt."
23-11-2017 VPRO Vrije Geluiden
"Impressive new choral music by Antony Pitts.
An album that shows in an impressively beautiful way that choral music is current and of all times."
05-11-2017 VPRO Vrije Geluiden
"Tom Klaassen explores the limits of classical music every Saturday and Sunday between 11 pm and midnight. With new releases, concert tips, reports, current developments in the music world, a permanent place for young talent, and of course: breathtaking music! Tonight include the new CD by Cappella Pratensis and Nederlands Kamerkoor with the Missa Unitatis by the British composer Antony Pitts.
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01-07-2017 Toccata
"From the point of view of the repertoire and the interpretation is this CD is of great importance. This is in addition to the musical completely successful interpretation. The result is a very captivating production"
13-02-2017 Johan van Veen
"(...) Lovers of renaissance music should not hesitate to add these two discs to their collection. (...)
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01-09-2016
""All these works are without a doubt examples of beauty, but Capella's approximation is particularly polished.""
18-08-2016 NRC Handelsblad
"Although still some nasal, seems to be the total sound moved to that of the specialized clubs as those in United Kingdom-taut, pure, with some more body."
24-07-2016 Klassiek Centraal
"Capella Pratensis and Capilla Flamenca have got amazing voices that follow the historical reconstruction of their conductors in a great way."
20-07-2016 De Volkskrant
"" [...] The vocal ensemble Cappella Pratensis have taken the music of this hero out of a acrchive from Brabant [...] ""
10-11-2014 Toccata
"The sound pattern is very clear and the style of singing fluent, with a perfect legato and a brilliant mixture of voices. Since the acoustic is also approriate, this CD be called successfull by any account."
01-08-2014 Gramophone
"(...) the textures are in general exceptionally clear and (...) the lines are beautifully relaxed."
31-07-2014 Choir & Organ
"The liveliness of acoustic and tonal beauty of both recordings and performance from the eight male voices pf Cappella Pratensis, celebrating the Annunciation in renaissance Rome with the Missa Ave maris stella by Josquin in liturgical format with plainsong Propers, is a pukka piece of aural time-travel. Their Franco-Italian pronunciation, evoking the papal choir of Josquin's time, is particularly piquant."
19-05-2014 Opus Klassiek
"Avocal textured, warm blanket that fully suits the Annunciation. The eight voices are impressive depicted in the church hall."
01-07-2012 Choir & Organ
"Their exemplary performance, recorded superby in knock-out Hybrid SACD High Definition Surround Sound, are deeply embedded in both music and text - exquisite stuff."
01-06-2012 Early Music Today
"Serious scholarship and a commitment to performing from a central music stand with a score in the original mensural notation combined creatively with mellifluous singing."
Toccata
"These are excellent interpretations, the sound of cappella catches with transparency, in spite of the tight compositions for eight voices."
