Widely admired for his operas and symphonic works, and internationally acclaimed for his numerous film scores, Richard Rodney Bennett has received far less appreciation for his choral music, even though this body of work is quite substantial, highly accessible, and rewarding. These 2004 performances by John Rutter and the splendid Cambridge ...
In this compilation of music from previously released Christmas albums, John Rutter writes that his intent is to create a collection that reflects the variety of the Christmas season -- the religious and the secular, the contemplative and the festive -- and is fully successful in gathering selections that are diverse, but fit well together. The ...
The group I Fagiolini ("The Green Beans") is British, not Italian, dating back to a student ensemble formed at Oxford University in the 1980s. The booklet notes ask straightforwardly why, with the profusion of spectacular Italian (and, they might have added, French) takes on Monteverdi's music over the last few years, an English contribution is ...
This set of choral pieces by Mendelssohn, all either unaccompanied or with organ (whose presence is too retiring here), shows the variety in his sacred output. Languages represented are German, Latin, and English; religions Catholic, Lutheran, and Anglican. Some of the music reflects his encounter with Bach, not in the imposing mode of the ...
It's well known that King Henry VIII was a composer, but he's generally represented by one or two pieces on collections of English Renaissance music rather than being treated as the central figure in a flourishing artistic culture. Exactly how much music he wrote is a matter of dispute, but this disc by the English vocal group Alamire and wind ...
Fresh from the success of a 2006 Classic FM Gramophone Award-winning recording of the Dublin version of Messiah, conductor John Butt and the Dunedin Consort and Players have turned to Bach's Matthew Passion. This is an even more radical departure from traditional performing practice than the Consort's 12-member chorus for Messiah, which drew the ...
English music for a consort of viols presents a unique moment in the slow differentiation of vocal and instrumental genres. Viols played pieces drawn from the repertoire of vocal polyphony. In the Chapel Royal for which the composers represented here worked, such vocal pieces would have been sung unaccompanied. But when the music was performed ...
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