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liturgical plainchant repertory of the Ambrosian rite of the Roman Catholic Church
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2024-04-17 16:00:59
The conductor leads the Gabrieli Consort and Players in this wide-ranging score
2024-04-17 13:00:17
Grigorian chant
In advance of her Metropolitan Opera debut, Chris’s Cache showcases Asmik Grigorian’s versatility with broadcasts of Halévy, Giordano, and Korngold The post appeared first on parterre box.
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
Victoria: Tenebrae Responsories; I Fagiolini, Robert Hollingworth; COROReviewed 9 April 2024Just one voice to a part, just intonation and a wonderfully expressive approach to line, all combined with lovely poise to make this disc a little bit of magic.Victoria's Tenebrae Responsories are completely wonderful and few choristers can be entirely ignorant of them, most ensembles attempt some of them at some time. Usually performed in modern editions for standard SATB at a pitch that makes them work, they were intended for a rather different line up using either low-soprano, high-tenor, baritone and bass or two sopranos, high-tenor and baritone. And almost certainly with only one voice to a part, sung a four lower than written according to the conventions used at the time.This original arrangement has rarely made it onto disc. Famously the music was recorded at high pitch, without the expected transposition, by the choir of Westminster Cathedral in the […]
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 […]