Originally posted by DracoM
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But, I still have to "make adjustments" when listening to women singing this repertoire (like hearing a Consort of Viols with a violin) - I know why (professionals, times of concerts, school holidays etc etc) but one of the sopranos in this performance has a pronounced vibrato on all the long notes which stuck out for me particularly in Oh Lord, Give thy Holy Spirit - and the Countertenor had a particularly vinegary timbre to his voice that pierced through the texture, and ruined the balance between the three male voices in O Sacrum Convivium I felt. (He had some screechy moments in the Frances-Hoad as well.) Not, IMO, "on top of their game" here at all.
So mixed delight for me, but delight not doubted.
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