The peripatetic English-born conductor Paul Hillier, who has led many a superb performance of a cappella Renaissance music in both Europe and the U.S., now lives in Denmark and here joins forces with the 16-member choir Ars Nova Copenhagen. Hillier often performs Renaissance masses in a historically authentic way, with smaller pieces interspersed ...
The Rose and the Ostrich Feather, originally issued in 1992, was the first of a series of discs The Sixteen devoted to the Eton Choirbook, a collection of English church music likely copied out in the 1490s. The Sixteen, an expert small English choir, has now reissued these performances on the Coro label along with a variety of other music as part ...
Familiar Renaissance compositions of the sixteenth century tend to unfold in clear sections corresponding to units of text: the poetry of an English madrigal, the lines of a Marian motet by Josquin are reflected by distinctively shaped musical clauses, marked off by a series of imitative voice entrances or some other device. This marriage of music ...
The Crown of Thorns is the second volume in a series of five discs by choral group the Sixteen under Harry Christophers devoted to the contents of The Eton Choirbook, an early sixteenth century manuscript that remains one of the few primary sources for late fourteenth-century English Latin service music, having escaped the purgation that was ...
The Crown of Thorns is the second volume in a series of five discs by choral group the Sixteen under Harry Christophers devoted to the contents of The Eton Choirbook, an early sixteenth century manuscript that remains one of the few primary sources for late fourteenth century English Latin service music, having escaped the purgation that was ...
This budget reissue, part of a pair of two-disc sets, may for many listeners be preferable to the original releases, if only because the music involved, consisting of English sacred choral works from the generations before the ensemble's namesake, is not everyone's cup of tea. On the other hand, it's so good that it may make converts to the ...
Tears & Lamentations is an all too apt title for this truly, deeply, profoundly gloomy collection of English Renaissance choral music. Combining eight works drawn from either the Fayrfax Manuscript or from Henry VIII's manuscript plus two works by Robert White, including his large-scale setting of the Prophet Jeremiah, this disc by the Pro ...
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