James MacMillan - Stabat Mater Vocal & Song Coro Records

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Diapason d'Or de L'Année 2017

Diapason magazine (France) - 2017

ICMA Contemporary Music Category Nominee

2018 International Classical Music Awards

Winner of Diapason d'Or for Choral Music

Diapason

"... MacMillan's Stabat Mater is an excellent addition to his already large body of sacred works... The Sixteen continues to be one of the most reliable and versatile chamber choirs at work today, and I am glad that this new work was composed with them in mind" Raymond Tuttle

"... a significant and deeply stirring work by an extraordinary composer, and it needs to be heard by anyone who cares about sacred choral music." Ronald E Grames

Fanfare - September/October 2017

Contemporary Category - Nomination

Gramophone Music Awards 2017

“... It’s an intense, personal and captivating work, beautifully recorded in the Church of St Augustine’s in Kilburn, London. The interplay between voice and strings is particularly ethereal, with some stunning writing for soprano voice, and this important new work is a welcome addition to the centuries-old canon of religious choral writing.” ****½

Lisa MacKinnet – Limelight Magazine.com.au – 4 August 2017

***** - Exceptional Album

Claudio Bolzan - Musica magazine (Italy) - July/August 2017

Performance **** Recording *****

"...The Sixteen's singing is predictably high in quality..."

Terry Blain - BBC Music magazine - June 2017

"... Warmly recommended." *****

Philip Reed – Choir & Organ magazine – May/June 2017

Recording of the Month

"... It is also dangerously easy to underestimate the consummate skill with which Harry Christophers balances and moulds the choral sound. From deep within this wonderfully homogeneous sonority, the solo voices emerge almost imperceptibly. All the soloists are outstanding; but if I were to single out one, it must be soprano Julie Cooper ... Posterity might well judge this to be a 21st-century masterpiece; there is no question that this is a truly masterly recorded performance."

Marc Rochester - Gramophone magazine - May 2017

"... Considered purely as a recording, as a permanent record of this important work in MacMillan’s output, it is quite flawless. The singing is of the highest standard: the quality has to be heard to be believed, wondrous singing. The sound quality is equally outstanding, the balance between singers and string orchestra is superb and the acoustic could hardly be better chosen for such a deeply religious work..." ****

Robert Matthew-Walker - ClassicalSource.com - March 2017

"...It's stunningly composed and also magnificently performed... under Harry Christophers's inspired direction." *****

Richard Morrison - The Times - 3 March 2017

"...Wonderfully sung; profoundly moving."

Stephen Pritchard - The Observer 12 March 2017

"...a magnificent achievement"

BBC Radio 3 Record Review

theartsdesk.com

"... this is a major piece and superbly performed. Insistent string figures command intense listening, and the range of choral colours – ensemble and solos, a quartet of tenors, and declamatory as well as melodic – add up to an experience both moving and profound."

Keith Bruce The Herald (Scotland) - 3 March 2017

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