The Bad Tempered Consort: Portugese Polyphony from the 17th Century.
The Bad Tempered Consort: Portugese Polyphony from the 17th Century. A Imagem da Melancolia Recorder Consort. Challenge Classics CC72321, 2009.
(…) Other highlights are the pieces based on chant, in which soprano Magna Ferreira sings the chant melody in a style reminiscent of Monteverdi’s Sonata sopra Sancta Maria. In Coehlo’s Sobre Pange Lingua, the chant is introduced first, and the fantasia-like polyphony grows out of it, while Ferreira’s pure tone soars through the texture of Sobre o Seculorum, also by Coehlo. Speculative this performance might be, but it is technically assured, musically polished and eminently listenable. (…)
Naomi Joy Barker in “Early Music”, 16.II.2010
(…) Other highlights are the pieces based on chant, in which soprano Magna Ferreira sings the chant melody in a style reminiscent of Monteverdi’s Sonata sopra Sancta Maria. In Coehlo’s Sobre Pange Lingua, the chant is introduced first, and the fantasia-like polyphony grows out of it, while Ferreira’s pure tone soars through the texture of Sobre o Seculorum, also by Coehlo. Speculative this performance might be, but it is technically assured, musically polished and eminently listenable. (…)
Naomi Joy Barker in “Early Music”, 16.II.2010