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Giordano Bruno | Wherever I am, I am. | 04/12/2007

(5 out of 5 stars)

"If you are familiar with any of Obrecht's music, or with any of the great polyphonic masses of the Franco-Flemish masters, then you must hear this performance. The mass is a bold assault on the predictabilities of the genre, assigning the "tenor" to the highest voices. The motets that fill out the disk are equally daring. None of this would matter if the performance were not thrillingly insightful, with nearly perfect tuning and phrasing, but it is! The Clerks' Group ranks with the Orlando Consort and the various ensembles led by Dominique Visse as the finest interpreters of Renaissance vocal music active today."