Canty, led by Rebecca Tavener, is the "sister" of Cappella Nova, the acclaimed Scottish singing group co-directed by Tavener and her husband, Alan Tavener. Consisting of Tavener and three other singers, Libby Crabtree, Ruth Dean, and Anne Lewis, Canty devoted its previous ASV Gaudeamus release to works of Hildegard von Bingen, a laudable pursuit ...
Canty, the Scottish women's quartet specializing in early music, was founded in 1998, the 900th anniversary of Hildegard's birth. The group in many ways resembles Anonymous 4 in the purity of the individual voices and warm vocal blend, (although they occasionally miss the spot-on perfect intonation), and in the type of repertoire it sings. The ...
This is one of those European releases with a booklet that sounds as though it could have come straight out of the pages of Artforum International. Be prepared for sentences like "In other words, ornamentation has a vectorial, dynamic function and outweighs organic balance." Given the name of this Belgian group, Graindelavoix (which refers to the ...
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