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2019-06-29 08:41:10
From Supersize Polyphony to choir creation: I chat to Christopher Monks of Armonico Consort
Christopher Monks conducting Armonico Consort's Supersize Polyphony at Coventry Cathedral (Photo Peter Marsh Ashmore Visuals) Supersize Polyphony was the Armonico Consort's celebration of large-scale 16th century polyphony including Alessandro Striggio's 40 voiced motet and mass, Ecce Beatam Lucem and Missa sopra Ecco Si Beato Giorno, and Thomas Tallis' 40-part Spem in Alium, and now the ensemble, with the choir of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge have recorded the programme for Signum Classics. Christopher Monks founded the Armonico Consort nearly 20 years ago and we chatted recently about the recording, the consort's wide range of educational activities such as the successful choir creation scheme, as well as the remarkably amount of musical talent in the UK's young people, often without a proper pathway for release.The idea behind the recording was to re-create the Supersize Polyphony concertis, with the Striggio mass and Tallis motet. But Monks was wary of presenting the […]
2018-12-16 08:37:14
Annual Christmas Round-up
Welcome to our annual Christmas round-up, where we take a look at recent discs of carols, Christmas music and more.There are fewer carol disc this year, but what there are are some corkers, and we also have more general Christmas music selections including trips to the Renaissance and to France. Choirs vary from mixed voice adult choirs, Oxbridge chapel choirs using mixed voices, boys voices, and girls voices to a school choir with a difference. There are two female vocal ensembles, both bringing a distinctive twist to Christmas and Seasonal repertoire. Howard Blake's The Snowman makes an appearance in the company of the late Sir Ken Dodd, and we finish with a DVD, very traditional yet highly modern take on Cinderella.If it is carols you are wanting then SOMM's Carols from Chelsea is just the thing, a delightful selection of carols and more from William Vann and the choir of […]
2018-08-26 06:00:09
The Binchois Consort excel in their follow-up to Music for the 100 Years War, while Julian Anderson is beautifully served by the choir of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge • If you haven’t come across the late medieval alabaster sculptures made mostly around Nottinghamshire, the Binchois Consort’s latest album for Hyperion, The Lily & the Rose – subtitled “Adoration of the Virgin in sound and stone” – should prompt you to seek them out. Conductor Andrew Kirkman and the consort’s six male voices explore the connections between sound and image in the “long 15th century” (c1380-1520). Sung with crystalline perfection, and recorded in the atmospheric surroundings of Ascot Priory, Berkshire, this sequence of Marian English polyphony introduces us to names, John Dunstaple aside, still not widely known: John Cooke, Walter Frye, John Bedyngham, John Plummer and more. The CD liner notes provide essays, several pictures of alabasters and all the texts. Listen and be transported. […]
2012-07-01 01:05:34
Choir of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge/Webber (Delphian)As concept albums go this is interesting, juxtaposing William Byrd's great five-part mass with a range of 20th-century British works that draw on Tudor sources. There are fairly straight arrangements, like the version of Tallis's "third tune" that Vaughan Williams also used, and the William Harris anthem Eternal Ruler using a magnificent Orlando Gibbons melody. A lovely Robert Pearsall anthem from the 1840s is the bridge to the world of Howells, Bax, Holst and Finzi, where the prize is taken by Britten's little teenage masterpiece, A Hymn to the Virgin. The later works feel more idiomatically sung than the Byrd, which is too ample, but the sonorously rich sound of the recording will appeal to all choral music enthusiasts.Classical musicNicholas Kenyonguardian.co.uk © 2012 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to […]
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