"With singing full of inflection and emotion, moments of compelling resonance for singers and listeners as the voices briefly flowed together onto the tonic and then smoothly wound away again" - New York Classical Review, April 2023
"This is certainly the new reference-recording of one of the high-points of Renaissance masses" - Goldberg Stiftung, april 2023
“If I hear anything that pleases me more all year I shall be surprised” - Gramophone Magazine, June 2022
For almost forty years, Cappella Pratensis has been renowned for its innovative approach to the performance of Renaissance polyphonic music, being one of only a handful of professional ensembles in the world who perform directly from historical notation, as opposed to transcriptions in the form of a modern choral score. Under the leadership of Stratton Bull, the ensemble has recently dived further into the musical traditions surrounding this repertoire by exploring historical methods of improvisation and pedagogies, as well as working within the contexts of liturgical reconstruction. The result is an inherently immersive approach, in which the performers draw on a truly embodied relationship with past musical cultures in order to provide convincing and engaging performances.
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