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The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-04-08 16:30:16
Okeghem Takes Flight
[…] Alma redemptoris mater, and the Missa De plus en plus. We’ll sing all three over the course of the Okeghem Weekend! What are your plans after the conclusion of your multi-year work with Okeghem? Do you have another large-scale project planned? Or other plans you’d like to share here? Okeghem will remain central in Blue Heron’s concert repertoire, and we plan to record his four motets (along with the complete motets of his contemporary Johannes Regis) and, I hope, some of the Masses as well. And, as we look forward to our 25th birthday this coming October, we are thinking hard about the next big project, and laying out our programming for several seasons to come. We’ll continue to sing a lot of 15th-century music our audiences have never heard before, and pursue interests in the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries too (Machaut, madrigals, and more). Stay tuned! The post […]
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 […]
2022-06-17 04:00:00
Smetana: Ma Vlast (Libor Pesek)
Bedrich Smetana:01 - 06 Ma Vlast, JB,1:112 [74'29]Czech Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Libor PesekRegis RRC1099 [recorded in May 1995; this CD release 1996][CD-rip; flacs, cover, inlay and booklet scans]Recording venue: Prague Spring Festival 50th Anniversary concert at Rudolfinum Hall, PragueRecording engineer: Jan Kotzmann; Producer: Zdenek ZahrodníkOriginally issued on the Czech Lotos label. Subsequently reissued on Regis' Alto label.As a comparison, here is Pesek's earlier studio recording made when he was chief conductor in Liverpool.01 - 06 Ma Vlast, JB,1:112 [76'29]Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Libor PesekVirgin Classics VC7911002 [recorded in May 1989; original CD release 1990; this download from the late 2000s][digital download; flacs, cover and inlay scans, some booklet pages sourced from Discogs]Recording venue: Philharmonic Hall, LiverpoolRecording engineer: Mike Hatch; Producer: John H West Download from Mega.
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