One might have thought Robert King had no worlds left to conquer. After all, he had already recorded all the sacred choral works of Vivaldi along with much of the choral music of Bach, Handel, Telemann, and Schütz in the '80s and '90s. But when King turned his attention to the sacred music of Monteverdi in the early years of the third millennium, ...
Vocalist Emily van Evera has participated in the making of many early music recordings over the years, mainly as a performer within a group, among them Taverner Consort, Hilliard Ensemble, Tragicomedia, Sequentia, and Gothic Voices. The most famous, and notorious, of van Evera's associations is her vocal portrayal of Hildegard von Bingen as set to ...
Claudio Monteverdi's sacred music has been ripe for a top-notch complete traversal such as it is now receiving from the King's Consort and conductor Robert King. As choirmaster of St. Mark's Cathedral in Venice for the last 30 years of his life, Monteverdi wrote a lot of sacred music and explored many of the myriad sonic configurations possible in ...
Signum's Thomas Tallis: The Complete Works, Vol. 9, brings to a close a long-running series of discs devoted to recording every note of music written by Thomas Tallis, spearheaded by conductor and musicologist Alistair Dixon and the group Chapelle du Roi. Some of these pieces are so obscure that critical editions were produced only in the process ...
The Siena Lute Book is the best manuscript source of fifteenth century Italian lute music in existence, and it is kept in the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague. Its creamy white and carefully copied pages yield more than seven score lute compositions, compiled in the last decade of the fifteenth century but belonging to a time about 40 years before. On ...
Even if you think the big "Rule, Britannia!" mood is the way to go with Handel, give a chance to Robert King's version of the Ode for St. Cecilia's Day, recorded with the King's Consort and its choir on the Hyperion label. Handel in this much-loved work set a poem in praise of music by John Dryden; between opening and closing stanzas that ...
Handel's "nine German arias" (he wrote other arias in German, but this is a discrete group) were written in the mid-1720s, long after the composer left his native Germany for Italy and then booming Great Britain. It is not known why he should have written music in German at that late date, and the pieces have a quietly contented tone that sets ...
Although later designated the patron saint of music, St. Cecilia originally had nothing to do with music. A Roman-born Christian and a married virgin (she told her husband she was already married to an angel, a claim he seemingly found plausible), Cecilia was condemned to death after the unspecified martyrdom of her husband and brothers. She first ...
Any sufficiently dedicated fan of Thomas Tallis is likely to already have the 10-disc set of his complete works issued on Signum in 2005. Though the price was relatively stiff, the performances of the English Renaissance composer's music by the Chapelle du Roi led by Alistair Dixon were so accomplished, so musical, so inspired, and so complete ...
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