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[…] Toby Young. A Ceremony of Carols - Signum Classics - Amazon Opus Anglicanum is a group of five professional singers (John Bowen, David De Winter, James Birchall, Stephen Burrows, Roland Robertson) who perform with a reader (Zeb Soanes), performing music from the medieval to the contemporary. After somewhat overdosing on more modern carols it was a pleasure to turn to their disc, Medieval Carols, of early plainchant and music by Perotin, Josquin, Walter Lambe, William Cornysh and Obrecht interspersed with seasonal readings given by Zeb Soanes (you may know him as a BBC Radio newsreader or as the author of a series of children's books about Gaspard the Fox!) from John Wycliffe, and Lancelot Andrewes' Christmas 1622 sermon (source of TS Eliot's Journey of the Magi). A lot of the music is chant-based and the five singers perform in a style which sounds as if they have been […]
2018-10-29 13:16:37
Dunstaple and more
[…] if Europe. He led the Staatskapelle Dresden for almost 10 years. Like Johum, Sinopoli made several interesting recordings of Bruckner; he was also an insightful Mahlerian. Here Sinopoli is conducting the Vienna Philharmonic in Robert Schumann’s Manfred Overture, Op. 115. We find John Dunstaple’s music irresistible. Duntsaple was born around 1390, about the same time as the famous Burgundian, Guillaume Dufay. In England, Dunstaple was followed by Robert Morton (born around 1430), Walter Lambe (1453), John Taverner (1490), Thomas Tallis (1505), William Byrd (1540), John Dowland, John Bull (both born in 1563), and Orlando Gibbons (1583). These are just the more famous names; the tradition of the Early English Renaissance is quite remarkable. Dunstaple served in the court of John of Lancaster, a son of king Henry IV and a brother of Henry V. John led the British forces in many battles of the Hundred Year War with […]
2016-07-11 07:00:27
Classical music: New York Polyphony opens the 17th annual Madison Early Music Festival with a perfectly rendered composite portrait of Elizabethan sacred music. Plus, the winners of the fourth annual Handel Aria Competition are announced
[…] can hear a sample in the YouTube video at the bottom.) Adding to the variety was that each Roman Catholic mass was a composite, with various sections made up like movements written by different composers. Thrown in for good measure were two separate short pieces, the “Ave Maria Mater Dei” by William Cornysh and the “Ave verum corpus ” of William Byrd. The Mass on the first half featured music by Byrd, John Dunstable, Walter Lambe and Thomas Tallis. The second half featured works music by Tallis, John Pyamour, John Plummer and excerpts from the Worcester Fragments. The section were typical: the Kyrie, Gloria in Excelsis, Credo, Sanctus, Benedictus and Agnus Dei. There was nothing fancy about this concert, which marked the Wisconsin debut of New York Polyphony and which spotlighted superbly quiet virtuosity. The four dark-suited men, who occasionally split up, just stood on stage and opened their mouths […]
2016-07-05 07:00:28
Classical music: Spend a week in the Age of Shakespeare and Queen Elizabeth I when the 17th annual Madison Early Music Festival is held, starting this Saturday. Part 1 of 2.
[…] faculty members and performers? CBR: Our format has stayed the same because, after 17 seasons, it seems to be working. We are excited about everything that will be happening during the week. https://artsinstitute.wisc.edu/memf/concerts.htm New to MEMF this year is the ensemble New York Polyphony (below). They will be performing their program “Tudor City,” featuring the music of the Church, including the sacred music of Thomas Tallis and William Byrd, Christopher Tye and Walter Lambe. Their recording of this program, Tudor City, spent three weeks in the Top 10 of the Billboard classical album chart. You can read more about them on their website: http://www.newyorkpolyphony.com/ To get a preview of what you will hear please visit: http://www.newyorkpolyphony.com/media2/ MEMF goes to the Movies! The Newberry Violin Band (below top) will be performing as a live accompaniment to the silent film, Elizabeth I, made in 1912. Sarah […]
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