On the 10th anniversary of the death of Louis I. Botto, Chanticleer's founder, the male vocal ensemble commissioned five composers to write a composite mass in honor of his life. The movements of the ordinary of the mass are interspersed with works by Gesualdo and Andrea Gabrieli, and the whole is bookended by the plainsong Da Pacem, Domine. The ...
There's a certain new age aspect to Sound in Spirit, an unusual release from the highly successful a cappella male chorus Chanticleer. But there's plenty here for steely-eyed rationalists, too. The disc marks a departure for this durable group, founded in 1978. "This is the first Chanticleer recording totally conceived for recording and remixing ...
A fairly random collection of the sacred music of three English composers from the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, each disc of this Harmonia Mundi three-disc set nevertheless has its attractive qualities. In the disc given to two masses and three motets by the celebrated William Byrd, the all-male Chanticleer sings with an austere ...
Argentinean composer Pablo Ortiz belongs to the generation of composers who were trained in 1970s and early '80s, a time when the tenets of serialism were sacrosanct in American conservatories and music schools. Ortiz, who received his doctorate at Columbia under Mario Davidovsky, would have been inculcated with the doctrine of serialism as the ...
Various forward-looking early music ensembles have offered releases drawn on the fascinating repertory of the Mexican Baroque, but with this disc by the very popular all-male San Francisco group Chanticleer, the music has reached a new level. It sounds like an odd idea at first, but the group gave its first concert 30 years ago at Mission San ...
Not too many sequels to successful classical albums actually manage to exceed or outstrip their predecessors. In the case of Chanticleer's Jerusalem: Matins for the Virgin of Guadalupe, the preceding album was Mexican Baroque, a best seller and for many listeners the first inkling they ever had that there was Baroque music in seventeenth and ...
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