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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 not […]
2019-09-25 06:47:08
Sheer delight: Iestyn Davies and James Hall in duets by Henry Purcell and John Blow
[…] have a slightly higher centre of gravity than that of Davies. And they are joined, supported and surrounded by colleagues who are equally at the top of their art, and the results have all the best qualities of chamber music and make you wish that they had recorded more.Blow's ode has of course been on disc before, though perhaps not as often as it ought to. The classic recording is still Alfred Deller and the Deller Consort, but for a very different view of the work you could try a recent recording from Jonathan Cohen and Arcangelo which uses two haut-contres (high tenors) rather than counter-tenors. The disc is released on 27 September 2019.Henry Purcell (1659-1695) - Hark how the songstersHenry Purcell - In vain the am'rous fluteHenry Purcell - O solitude, my sweetest choiceHenry Purcell - Chaconne 'Two in one upon a ground'John Blow (1649-1706) - Ah heav'n, what […]
2017-04-11 01:00:00
Again a collection of Easter Passion Music, from The 16th to The 20th Century, this year brought together by the members Aart, Cadfael, Cunctator, Nozomi and DutchPublisher. We wish you all an enjoyable time! Jachet de Mantoue (1483-1559)Lamentationes Jeremiae Ensemble Jachet de MantoueCalliope CAL 9340 (© 2003) [63'30"]EAC rip; flacs, log, cue, scans (300dpi); 334 MBCourtesy of member Thomas CadfaelDownload Thomas Tallis (c1505-1585) Lamentations of Jeremiah, Jesu salvator saeculi, Deus tuorum militum, O nata lux de lumine, Jam Christus astra ascenderat, Salvator mundi Domine Deller Consort Dir: Alfred Deller Vanguard Classics 08 5028 71 (© 1958/1994) [45'06"] EAC rip; flacs, log, cue, scans (300dpi); 173 MB Courtesy of member Thomas Cadfael Download Anonymous, from the Tenth Bookof Pierre Attaingant (1534)St. John Passion, Good Friday liturgy Les Chantres de la Sainte-ChapelleAntoine Sicot - directionLabel:Ligia Lidi 0202153-05Recorded November 2004[Flacs & scans]Download […]
2015-12-29 05:04:00
[…] mentioned along with many other edibles in that special sort of madrigals called "cries", in which five voices evoke in counterpoint and popular inflexions "The cries of London", such as the emblematic Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625) score called thus. The Nonsense Vocal Ensemble of Soloists led by Valeria Martinelli accompanied by the Periwinkles solved well the musical problems but didn´t have the required idiomatic feeling (compare The Deller Consort). And then, Luciano Berio´s "Cries of London", 1976. His model is Gibbons but his language is wholly contemporary and quite interesting; I only cavil at its sectionalized realisation; Gibbons is continuous, as life commands. The eight voices (unaccompanied) of the Nonsense Ensemble were much more comfortable in Berio. […]
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