The Brabant Ensemble's exploration of Févin's masses and motets

'Director Stephen Rice brings perceptive musical insights to these accounts', writes Kate Bolton-Porciatti. 'His vocal ensemble may be slender but the singing is robust and buoyantly articulated. Boyish upper voices offset velvety tenors and basses, and the relatively close recording perspective produces a sound at once lucid and lustrous.'

 

Antoine de Févin

Missa Ave Maria, Missa Salve sancta parens

The Brabant Ensemble/Stephen Rice

Hyperion CDA68265   79:13 mins

Freya Parr

Published: November 26, 2018 at 4:10 pm

'Director Stephen Rice brings perceptive musical insights to these accounts', writes Kate Bolton-Porciatti. 'His vocal ensemble may be slender but the singing is robust and buoyantly articulated. Boyish upper voices offset velvety tenors and basses, and the relatively close recording perspective produces a sound at once lucid and lustrous.'

Antoine de Févin

Missa Ave Maria, Missa Salve sancta parens

The Brabant Ensemble/Stephen Rice

Hyperion CDA68265 79:13 mins

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Freya Parr

Digital Editor and Staff Writer, BBC Music Magazine

Freya Parr is BBC Music Magazine's digital editor and staff writer, editing and writing on all styles of music across both the website and print magazine. She has also written for titles including the Guardian, Circus Journal, Frankie and Suitcase Magazine, and runs The Noiseletter, a fortnightly arts and culture publication. Freya's main areas of interest and research lie in 20th-century and contemporary music. She's a regular sea shanty singer, folk obsessive and occasional flautist, pianist, organist and musical theatre director.
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