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With an atmospheric cover of a destroyed chapel interior, this disc of mainly 16th-century vocal music is all about death and decay...Plainsong interleaves the polyphony: the effect is ethereally... — The Observer, 22nd July 2012 More…

These performances seem to glow with an inner light. I don’t see how they could be improved upon. — Fanfare, March/April 2020 More…

The all-male, one-to-a-part treatment adopted here is rare, not to say unique…New York Polyphony’s approach is almost intimate, its details articulated from within…the blend and unanimity of... — Gramophone Magazine, October 2016 More…

The ensemble is at its best in the new music, which they sing with a stylish flair, and the more homophonic passages of Tallis, which they unfailingly imbue with direction and purpose. — Early Music Today More…

The all-male New York Polyphony sing one-to-a-part, which gives a particular sense of purity and chasteness to their Christmas selection...The vocal blend is consistently velvety, the pitching... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2014, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Not surprisingly, this is unrelentingly austere stuff. If, however, choral gloom is your bag, it is also an imaginatively programmed recital, immaculately sung and recorded in superb sound. — BBC Music Magazine, June 2021, 5 out of 5 stars More…