"This new release couples it Bruckner's Requiem with ten mostly short, rarely heard, liturgical pieces: motets and three aequales - short funeral pieces for three trombones to commemorate the dead. Three of those ten are world premiere recordings ... The scurrying strings in the Dies Irae are expertly articulated, although I could do with a little more vehemence and attack from the RIAS chamber choir which is otherwise very pleasing: pure, homogeneous and beautifully in tune - and they excel in the supplementary motets ... As it is, the ten "bonus" tracks fittingly complement and reinforce the grave beauty of the preceding work. I especially love the melancholy, hieratic timbre of the three trombones in their numbers, recreating a sound-world redolent of Monteverdi ... This is a disc to intrigue and engage the Bruckner aficionado"