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2021-10-07 07:26:31
Joy & Devotion: festival of Polish Sacred Music from 13th century to contemporary
Joy & Devotion is a new festival taking place at St-Martin-in-the-Fields from 2 to 5 November 2021 under the artistic directorship of Paweł Łukaszewski. Presented by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, this is a new annual festival devoted to Polish sacred music from the medieval to the contemporary. The oldest works to be performed at the Festival, 15th century Jerzy Liban’s Ortus de Polonia and 13th century Wincenty of Kielcza’s Gaude Mater Polonia, will be included in Nigel Short and Tenebrae's programme, along with 16th century composer Marcin Leopolita’s Missa Paschalis, the earliest known example of Polish six-part choral polyphony, plus music by Łukaszewski, Henryk Mikołaj Górecki (1933-2010) and Wojciech Kilar (1932-2013). Owain Park and the Gesualdo Six will be performing Krzystof Borek’s 16th century Missa Mater Matris, based on Josquin's mass of the same name, alongside two premieres by Aleksander Jan Szopa and Łukasz Farcinkiewicz, plus music by Andrzej Panufnik (1914-1991), Roxanna Panufnik and post-WWII organist and improviser Marian Sawa(1937-2005). […]
2021-08-02 13:54:36
Short takes, August 2021
This Week in Classical Music: August 2, 2021. Short takes. We’ll follow the lead of the musicologist Alejandro Planchart who, after sorting out all kind of information, had determined that Guillaume Dufay was born on August 5th of 1397. Dufay (his name was also spelled as Du Fay and Du Fayt) was the most famous composer of his time, that being the early Renaissance of European music. (The picture to the left indirectly attests to his fame: depicted on the left is Guillaume Dufay, on the right – Gilles Binchois, three years younger but also a famous composer; the script above the figures calls Dufay, and only him, “maître,” or master– Binchois is identified just by his name). We’ve written about Dufay a number of times, the last time just a year ago when we analyzed his peregrinations around Europe, here, which are absolutely fascinating, considering the distances he traveled […]
2021-07-02 09:00:23
Satisfyingly concentrated: Harry Christophers & The Sixteen's The Call of Rome at Kings Place
[…] version. Both programmes explore music written for the Papal Choir or music in the Papal Choir's library. We heard three of the Tenebrae Responsories for Holy Saturday by Victoria who worked in Rome for 20 years but was not a member of the Papal Choir, though an early version of the music is held by the Papal Choir's Library. Josquin was a member of the choir for five years, and we heard his motets Gaude virgo mater Christ and Illibata Dei virgo. Felice Anerio trained as a choir boy at St Peter's Basilica under Palestrina, before going on to take Palestrina's place as composer to the Papal Choir after Palestrina died. We heard his motet Regina caeli laetare a8. Harry Christophers, The Sixteen - Kings Place (Photo Monika S Jakubowska/Kings Place) The final composer was Gregorio Allegri, who worked with the Papal Choir for 23 […]
2021-02-21 11:25:54
A Life On-Line: the 'wrong' Xerxes, RVW in Australia, Ash Wednesday at Wigmore Hall, and Mary, Mary Quite Contrary
[…] with the pair of settings of words from Psalm 136 (Vulgate) by Philippe da Monte and William Byrd, evidently written as complementary pieces. [Wigmore Hall] We stayed in the same world for the Marian Consort's programme, Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary. Rory McLeery directed the ensemble of 12 singers in music that was written during the early part of the reign of Queen Mary I, William Mundy's magnificent Vox patris coelestis paired with Thomas Tallis' early Gaude Gloriosa, which was probably modelled on the Mundy. It was lovely to hear this large-scale pieces of late Tudor polyphony, works which look both forward and back. Interleaving them were smaller pieces, Tye's Peccavimus cum patribus and the anonymous Ballad of Joy along with actor Nicola Harrison reciting popular rhymes and nursery rhymes which are link to Mary's reign. A fascinating idea, beautifully executed [Marian Consort] There was more words and music from the […]
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