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2019-12-04 11:30:36
[…] LCS, bringing together carols both traditional and modern. Warming. The 25 Greatest Christmas carols of all time Now May We Singen: Music for Advent and ChristmasBen Bloor (organ), Choir of Westminster School/Timothy GarrardSignum Classics SIGCD595 As school choirs go, Westminster School’s is rather fine, its dynamic range and blend top notch. An ambitious yet attractive programme. Nowell synge we bothe al and som: A Feast of Christmas Music in Medieval EnglandGothic VoicesLinn CKD591 Gothic Voices will shortly mark its 40th anniversary, and celebrates with Nowell synge we bothe al and som, a new programme of medieval songs and motets for the Christmas season. The material is a mix of plainchant and polyphony, arranged for various combinations of the ensemble’s four members. Five of the best contemporary choral works A Spanish NativityStile AnticoHarmonia Mundi HMM902312 Alonso Lobo’s Missa Beata Dei genitrix Maria is the anchor […]
2019-11-01 15:09:28
Fifty years ago the quest for authentic performances of early music turned the classical world on its head and changed the way we listen for good. Was it all positives? Gramophone magazine generally selects the megastars of the classical music world as recipients of its annual Lifetime Achievement award. Conductors Claudio Abbado and Bernard Haitink, players Isaac Stern and James Galway, singers Kiri te Kanawa and Montserrat Caballé have all been honoured. But this year the award went to a specialist in early music who has quietly been the voice of a revolution: the soprano Emma Kirkby. Her pure, direct, intensely eloquent singing on recordings over recent decades can truly be said to have changed the sound of music in our time. She has been the voice of the abbess Hildegard of Bingen on the bestselling Gothic Voices, she has cut through the refiner’s fire in Christopher Hogwood’s famous recording […]
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Faces of classical music
2018-12-23 18:00:00
Christmas with the Faces of Classical Music
[…] V wanted his musical establishment to be a prestigious one; during its good years it numbered as many as 90 singers and instrumentalists. Lassus' genius and capacity for work were soon noticed. In 1563, he succeeded Ludwig Daser as maestro di cappella and, for the rest of his life, apart from numerous trips to recruit singers and instrumentalists, remained in this post... View full post Mary Star of the Sea – Gothic Voices (Download 44.1kHz/16bit) For centuries the figure of Mary has deeply fascinated the devotees of European religious culture. The canonic bible seems to make up only a small proportion of what has been related on this subject amongst the proliferation of myths, legends, poetry and universal lore it has infused, and the culture and mentality it has permeated. Such a central subject of devotion will of course have provided much opportunity and […]