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2021-12-10 08:33:58
Christmas disc round-up: from Christmas Matins in Bavaria & Nine Lessons & Carols at King's College, Cambridge to festive brass from Canada & the Wexford Carols
Daniel Hyde and the Choir of King's College, Cambridge, recording In the Bleak Midwinter in the chapel in December 2020 This year's Christmas round-up has something of an edge to it, many of the discs were recorded under the challenge of social distancing and the effect of the pandemic on child choristers who will have been deprived of the experience of singing in public. Some choirs have clearly made good use of the time offered, whilst others such as King's College, Cambridge took advantage of the unusual circumstances to record the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols in a chapel empty of audience.There is also a sense of looking back, the King's Singers return to their roots, whilst on Alto we can hear the Deller Consort in Medieval carols recorded in the 1950s and 1960s and the St Florian's Boy's Choir celebrates its 950th birthday with archive recordings. It is […]
2021-04-28 23:41:00
Te Deum Arts Management Solutions: Interview with John Rutter 4/30, at 11 am. EDT
John Rutter Conducting (4/28/21) The internationally acclaimed composer and conductor John Rutter joins "Across the Arts" host Patrick D. McCoy for a live virtual conversation via Facebook Live and YouTube Live. The music of John Rutter for decades has found a welcomed home in the repertoire of choirs across the globe. The celebrated composer will be featured as a part of THE MAESTRO SERIES on "Across the Arts" with Patrick D. McCoy on Friday, April 30, 2021 at 11:00 A.M. EDT (4:00 p.m. UK) streamed live on both Facebook and YouTube. Whether it is his popular anthems such as "For the Beauty of the Earth," "The Lord Bless You and Keep You" or his masterworks such as the "Requiem, "Magnificat," "Gloria" or "Te Deum," Rutter's music has found an iconic place in the sacred […]
2021-02-03 07:00:04
Palestrina’s “Sicut Cervus,” The Cambridge Singers
As a hart longs for the flowing streams, so longs my soul for thee, O God. -Psalm 42:1 Palestrina’s motet, Sicut cervus, is a setting of this poetic text. Serene and sensuous, its four-voice Renaissance polyphony evokes the flowing water that promises to satisfy the thirsty deer. Its expansive, continuously aspiring lines suggest a deep sense of longing and lament. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (c. 1525-1594) composed six books of motets, along ...
2020-08-10 07:56:26
The close of an amazing season, and a farewell: the last Opera Holland Park of 2020
Opera Holland Park - the final concert in the 2020 season (Photo Ali Wright) And so Opera Holland Park's enterprising 2020 season came to its end. Saturday 8 August 2020 would have been the final performance of the planned 2020 season, and instead it marked the end of the short lockdown season of three concerts of opera arias and a family performance based around G&S' The Pirates of Penzance, which was, frankly, little short of amazing in the current circumstances. For many people, the music at Holland Park would be the first live music they had heard in months. Opera Holland Park - Emma Stannard, Matthew Kofi Waldren, City of London Sinfonia(Photo Ali Wright) Saturday saw a talent cast of opera singers performing everything from Handel and Mozart, through Tchaikovsky and Dvorak, to Verdi and Puccini, along with something from Rogers & Hamerstein's […]
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