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2021-03-09 23:03:03
Quomodo sedet sola civitas plena populo! Facta est quasi vidua domina gentium Princeps provinciarum facta est sub tributo Those are the opening lines of the Lamentations of Jeremiah, set to music by Spanish composer Francisco de Peñalosa in the early 1500s. New York Polyphony sing the world premiere recording with radiance and gravitas on their […]
2019-11-09 07:23:31
Looking into the not-too-distant past—the early 1990s—you may recall another vocal quartet, not four men but four women, who called themselves Anonymous 4, and whose illustrious career spanned a couple of decades-plus. Their specialty was medieval chant and polyphony (with occasional forays into modern repertoire), and with each new recording—21 all together—the challenge for a […]
2019-10-12 05:29:00
Classical Music News of the Week, October 12, 2019
[…] dawn of the Renaissance, with selections of the Worcester Fragments. Rescued from the Reformation as recycled book-bindings, these Medieval gems show the mastery of the English style that would influence the next three centuries of composition, such as works by England's first great composer, John Dunstable, as well as John Pyamour, John Plummer, Thomas Byttering, and Leonel Power. The program culminates with music from the Golden Age of the Spanish Renaissance: selections from Francisco de Peñalosa's Missa 'L'homme arme and Sancta Maria, Pedro de Escobar's Stabat mater dolorosa, Francisco Guerrero's Antes que comáis a Dios, and Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla's Stabat mater dolorosa. Church of St. Mary the Virgin 145 West 46th Street, New York, NY Tickets: Starting at $30 Link: https://www.millertheatre.com/events/new-york-polyphony-gothic --Katy Salomon, Morahan Arts and MediaSchwalbe Artists in October Oct. 12: Meg Bragle Crumb: Three Early Songs, for Voice and Piano University of Pennsylvania Department of Music Philadelphia, […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2016-04-03 18:10:19
Herons in Seville’s Golden Age
Did Torquemeda bring an end to Seville’s golden age? Packed with Blue Heron’s ardent admirers, First Congregational Church, Cambridge witnessed “Cantores y ministriles: Music in Seville in the Golden Age on Saturday. All of the things that make Blue Heron’s concerts wonderful—the gorgeous singing, engaging pre-concert lectures (Professor Michael Noone), excellent program notes (by music director Scott Metcalfe), and music few of us had heard or even known about—were there, along with the distinguished early music woodwind ensemble, Dark Horse Consort. Seville’s famed cathedral, the third largest church in the world and the biggest cathedral, constructed on the former site of the city’s principal mosque, took 100 years to complete (1506). The great Spanish composers, Francisco de Peñalosa, Cristobal de Morales, Francisco Guerrero, and Alonso Lobo were associated with Seville and its cathedral, built, according to local tradition, to be so grand and so beautiful “that those who see it […]
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