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2023-12-22 14:11:00
A welcome relief from regular Christmas fare: the Tallis Scholars introduce us to the subtle riches of Jacobus Clemens non Papa
The Tallis Scholars (Photo: Hugo Glendinning)Jacobus Clemens non Papa: Missa Pastores quidnam vidistis, Victoria, Pedro de Cristo, Giovanni Croce, Obrecht, Peter Philips; The Tallis Scholars, Peter Phillips; St John's Smith SquareReviewed 21 December 2023Coming to the end of their 50th anniversary year, the group's Christmas programme focuses on the shepherds with a low-key and beautiful subtle account of Clemens non Papa's massPeter Phillips and the Tallis Scholars have been celebrating the group's 50th anniversary this year and they brought the celebratory year to a close at St John's Smith Square, where the group gave its first London concert in 1976.As part of St John's Smith Square's Christmas Festival on Thursday 21 December 2023, Peter Phillips conducted the Tallis Scholars in a programme entitled While Shepherd's Watched which centred on Jacobus Clemens non Papa's Missa Pastores quidnam vidistis along with the motet on which it was based, along with other motets on similar texts by […]
2020-04-08 06:28:27
Not just Monteverdi's teacher: the choir of Girton College, Cambridge explores the sacred music of Marc'Antonio Ingegneri
[…] a sequence of three from the Song of Songs, two five-part pieces Quae est ista and Surge propera sung by the choir alone, and then the amazing 16-part Vidi speciosam. This latter is a slow build piece, it uses a solo quartet and two six-part choirs and the texture seems to develop into one of real richness by the end, yet remains intensely devotional. The disc concludes with a motet by Ingegneri's Venetian contemporary Giovanni Croce, In spiritu humilitatis.The performances here are admirable. The choir numbers 29 singers which, even when joined with the brass, is not a huge number of singers per line in the triple choir pieces. Wilson opts for quite an equal balance between brass and voices, so that choirs seem a mixture of voice and instrument as was the case at the period. Perhaps, occasionally, the youth of the singers becomes more obvious, overall the performances […]
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2019-09-03 14:17:00
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.4 in F minor – Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly (HD 1080p)
[…] in London, Zurich Opera, the Bavarian and Vienna Staatsoper companies, Chicago Lyric Opera, and San Francisco Opera. Riccardo Chailly has received many prizes for his more than 150 CDs, including Gramophone's Record of the Year Award for his account of the Brahms symphonies. In the fall of 2019, he will release an album of three Strauss tone poems with the Lucerne Festival Orchestra. Riccardo Chailly is a Grand'Ufficiale della Repubblica Italiana, a Cavaliere di Gran Croce, and a Knight in the Order of the Netherlands Lion. In 1996 he was made an Honorary Member of the Royal Academy of Music in London, and he has been an Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in France since 2011.Lucerne Festival (IMF) debut on 7 September 1988 with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam in a program of works by Wagner, Mozart, and Tchaikovsky.Source: lucernefestival.ch/en/ Lucerne Festival OrchestraThe idea for a unique festival […]
2019-04-17 22:00:34
Broadcast: La traviata
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