music from the Eton Choirbook (TONUS PEREGRINUS CD on Naxos 8.572840)

CLASSIC FM 18 August 2012 Connoisseur’s Choice (David Mellor)
on music from the Eton Choirbook 

eMUSIC 16 August 2012 *****
on music from the Eton Choirbook: 
“…even collectors who have recordings of this repertoire will want to hear their unique application of scholarship to the questions of cross-relations and unwritten accidentals, which give these performances a piquancy missing from some of the competition.” (Steve Holtje) 

ARIAMA 13 August 2012
on music from the Eton Choirbook: 
“…sung brilliantly on this new recording by the vocal ensemble TONUS PEREGRINUS conducted by Antony Pitts… This recording by TONUS PEREGRINUS moves to the top of my list of favorites. There are some familiar works on the recording, like John Browne’s superb six-part Stabat Mater, but few performances match the intensity of this one by TONUS PEREGRINUS… The performances by TONUS PEREGRINUS are state-of-the-art… The sound quality is a story unto itself. Recording engineer Geoff Miles used experimental microphones that cloud distortion… and results in a recording of striking immediacy and clarity. This is as fine an album of Renaissance polyphony as I’ve heard in a while…” (Craig Zeichner) 

THE OBSERVER 12 August 2012
on music from the Eton Choirbook: 
“…This new collection from the 14 mixed voices of TONUS PEREGRINUS is exceptionally successful and sonorous, and includes a five-part Magnificat by Hugh Kellyk, previously unrecorded… for sheer contrapuntal virtuosity you cannot beat the oddest piece, the final 13-part canon by Robert Wylkynson.” (Nicholas Kenyon) 

YORKSHIRE POST August 2012
on music from the Eton Choirbook: 
“…Immaculately performed by TONUS PEREGRINUS, this gorgeously recorded release is an essential purchase.”

CONCERTONET 6 August 2012
on music from the Eton Choirbook: 
“…this astounding Naxos recording… The music is richly captivating, breathtaking and inspirational… Acoustics are phenomenal… It’s as though one is being lifted up to the heavens! Bravo, beautiful and brilliant!” (Christie Grimstad) 

MUSICWEB INTERNATIONAL August 2012 Bargain of the Month
on music from the Eton Choirbook: 
“…I wasn’t expecting to find any revelations here. I was wrong: in the booklet Antony Pitts writes ‘This recording is perhaps the jewel in the crown of our Naxos series of ‘milestones of Western Music’.’ Omit the ‘perhaps’ and I agree; this is superb, and the performances and recording do the music full justice…” (Brian Wilson) 

THE TIMES 4 August 2012
on music from the Eton Choirbook: 
“The 15th-century collection of sacred music known as the Eton Choirbook is regularly extolled but far less often performed. So three cheers to Antony Pitts’s subtly expressive choir TONUS PEREGRINUS for resuscitating half a dozen numbers. They include Richard Davy’s St Matthew Passion, a sonorous and symbolic 13-part canon by Robert Wylkynson, and pieces by Walter Lambe and Hugh Kellyk so harmonically fascinating that one feels ashamed to ask ‘who they?’. These ravishing melismas seem to lead the ear on and on towards eternity – as, probably, they were intended to do.” (Richard Morrison)

MUSICAL POINTERS August 2012
on music from the Eton Choirbook: 
“A very rewarding compilation of music from ‘one of the greatest surviving glories of pre-reformation England’. Music for 4 parts to an amazing 13 in Wylkynson’s Jesus autem transiens/Credo in Deum. Excellent annotation by Antony Pitts, and superbly recorded with Geoff Miles’ special “elephant ears” microphone. A disc to play again and again…” (Peter Grahame Woolf) 

DAVID’S REVIEW CORNER August 2012
on music from the Eton Choirbook: 
“TONUS PEREGRINUS’s thirteen singers include the pick of vocalists working in this field of music… the singing being of excellent technical quality in a beautifully balanced recording.” (David Denton)