Morales Mass for the Feast of St Isidore of Seville

“A superb recording of one of Morales’s best-known Masses placed within a context that highlights and complements it in Paul McCreesh’s usual imaginative fashion. All the chant appropriate to the Mass is there… Morales’s setting is of a restrained beauty, but also of considerable power. The Gabrieli Consort understands both these characteristics very well, never diminishing the work by exaggerating the former, nor distorting it by overblowing the latter, and conveying a sure grasp of the way the music’s architecture is achieved through Morales’s tremendous melodic ability.”Goldberg

“Splendid… By incorporating instrumental pieces and plainsong settings of the other liturgical elements, McCreesh and the Gabrieli Consort and Players produce a truly magnificent account… that vividly portrays a ‘living’ celebration of the Mass.”BBC Music Magazine