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Italian Renaissance composer (c. 1525–1594)
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2024-04-11 06:53:00
A little bit of magic: Victoria's Tenebrae Responsories sung one to a part at the original pitch by I Fagiolini and Robert Hollingworth
[…] this on the I Fagiolini website. When well implemented, as here, it brings something that bit special to the performance and the singers poise in creating this perfect acoustic blend is magical.This is music for vocal ensemble, four voices balanced and responsive, but remaining individual and not blended to death. The advantage of this approach is that spaciousness and austerity of Victoria's writing really makes the music shine. He rarely use complex constructional tricks like Palestrina, instead his expressive lines can often seem wide apart and austere, yet here there is a rich expressivity to the whole.I enjoyed (if that is the right word) Reid's poetry though I have to confess that I am not quite sure how I would feel about hearing it repeatedly and frankly, the sequence of just Victoria suits me fine.Tomás Luis de Victoria (c.1548-1611) - Tenebrae ResponsoriesChristopher Reid (born 1949) - poems from A ScatteringI […]
2024-03-08 15:52:00
Lumen Christi: I chat to Master of Music, Simon Johnson about his first disc with the choir of Westminster Cathedral
Simon Johnson & the choir of Westminster Cathedral recording at Buckfast AbbeyAd Fontes, the record label founded by Buckfast Abbey, is releasing Lumen Christi on 22 March 2024. A sequence of sequence of music for the Easter Vigil from the choir of Westminster Cathedral, this will be a follow-up to the choir's Vexilla Regis disc on the label. The new disc features plainchant alongside music by Lassus, Andrew Reid, Victoria, Palestrina, Matthew Martin, Jean L'Heritier, Jean Langlais and Martin Baker. But perhaps more significantly, the disc is the first one for the choir under its current Master of Music, Simon Johnson. Simon became Master of Music at Westminster Cathedral in September 2021, following thirteen years as the Organist and Assistant Director of Music at St Paul’s Cathedral.The choir's disc Vexilla Regis, released in 2019, featured music for Holy Week so the new disc, with its focus on the Easter Vigil Liturgy […]
2024-01-08 18:30:30
PREVIEW | Soundstreams Presents The Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir For A Single Canadian Performance
The Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir’s (EPCC) will return to Toronto to perform a concert of Arvo Pärt, Palestrina, along with a world premiere.
2023-12-31 09:22:00
2023 in record reviews: 17th century Venice as a gay haven, Dichterliebe Reimagined, Elgar on viola, Ethel Smyth's first operatic success
[…] remarkable cultural synthesis: Vache Baroque & La Vaghezza's A Baroque Hanukkah, celebrations of Salmone Rossi's Hebrew-texted The Songs of Solomon - concert reviewArctic saxophone: three imaginative & engaging new concertos from Ola Asdahl Rokkones, Arktisk Filharmoni & Per Kristian Skalstad - concert reviewSurrender to the gentle magic: Benjamin Tassie combines live-performance & field recording focusing on water-powered instruments to remarkably poetic effect - record reviewYouthful engagement & Romantic devotion: Claire Ward & JongSun Woo's CMF Lunchtime Recital - concert reviewThe glories of Roman polychoral music after Palestrina explored by I Fagiolini with Benevoli's Missa Tu es Petrus for four choirs - record reviewHome
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