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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 […]
2020-12-07 07:39:41
The first published Black composer: the Marian Consort performs Vicente Lusitano's Inviolata as part of its Advent programme at Kings Place
The Marian Consort We know very little about Vicente Lusitano. He was born in Olivença in Portugal and in 1561 published an important musical treatise. And that is about it. He is seems to be of African descent (he is described in contemporary sources as a "pardo", the Portuguese for mulatto), and whilst in Rome he published not only his treatises but a book of motets, making him almost certainly the first published Black composer. Much of what we know about him comes from an 18th century biography which is full of now unverifiable information, and of course there seems to be no surviving image of him. His music (motets and a madrigal) is woefully ignored as compared to his contemporaries. There will be a chance to remedy that when the Marian Consort performs their programme All Creation Waits at Kings Place on 15 December 2020. Their Advent sequence […]
2020-04-08 23:00:00
Passion Music 2020 [16 CDS]
[…] Consort Recorded: [n.d.] (© 2013) Label: Klanglogo KL 1403 (Flacs & scans) Download 1fichier uptobox zippy La Cappella Sistina: Lamentationi per la Settimana Santa Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548-1611) Lamentationes Jeremiae Gregorio Allegri (1582-1652) Miserere ensemble officium/Wilfried Rombach recorded: July & Sept 2010 Label: Christophorus CHR 77345 (Flacs & scans) Download 1fichier uptobox zippy Passion & Resurrection Motets by Cornysh, Gibbons, Tallis, Lassus, Morales, Victoria, McCabe, Taverner, Guerrero, Byrd, Lhéritier & Crecquillon stile antico Recorded: Feb 2012 Label: Harmonia mundi HMU807555 (Flacs & scans) Download 1fichier uptobox zippy Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643-1704) Leçons de Ténèbres (H 120-122), Motet H 361, instrumental works Stephan MacLeod, bass Arte dei Suonatori, Alexis Kossenko - direction Recorded: August 2011 Label: Alpha 185 (Flacs & scans) Download 1fichier uptobox zippy Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767) St Luke Passion 1748 Veronika Winter (soprano), Anne Bierwirth […]
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2018-03-29 16:03:15
The Antiquarian Book Dealer Who Became 'France's Bernie Madoff'
Gérard Lhéritier, the son and grandson of plumbers, built himself into the biggest, and flashiest, seller of old manuscripts and books in France, a businessman whose (heavily publicized) prize piece of inventory was the Marquis de Sade's original manuscript of 120 Days of Sodom. (Naturally, Esquire uses that fact as the hook for this article.) […]
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