The Pillars of Eternity is an extremely well-chosen title for this disc, the third volume by the Sixteen in a series of five devoted to the Eton Choirbook, a manuscript volume that remains the primary key to late-fifteenth century Latin church music in England. First issued on the Collins Classics label in 1992, this disc disappeared for a time ...
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 ...
British mixed vocal ensemble the Sixteen specializes in a cappella sacred music from the Tudor period, but on this CD the group included a new work, "O bone Jesu," which it commissioned from Scottish composer James MacMillan. MacMillan's piece fits well into the program of early sixteenth century English and Scottish choral music; its tone matches ...
In contrast to the great number of historical-instrument recordings that aim to bring neglected music to life by exploring it in depth, this collection of pieces by the German group Cappella Stravagante takes the opposite tack, offering, in the words of the booklet, "compositions covering an enormous stylistic range stretching from the Renaissance ...
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 ...
These discs come from LPs recorded in the 1970s -- unfortunately the reader of the booklet does not learn exactly where or when from the booklet, which is also something of a graphic design catastrophe. The Hilliard Ensemble, formed in 1974, took a great leap forward in the investigation and performance of English Renaissance music. It took its ...
The Pillars of Eternity is an extremely well-chosen title for this disc, the third volume by the Sixteen in a series of five devoted to the Eton Choirbook, a manuscript volume that remains the primary key to late-fifteenth century Latin church music in England. The composers represented here include several of the top-ranking figures of the ...
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