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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 Liturgy […]
2023-11-25 12:00:48
Winter’s the watchword, from Lassus and Byrd to radiant new works and that rare thing – an opera star who resists the sleigh bellsWhy buy a Christmas CD given you can now get any traditional carol online at a click? The challenge for any choir making a seasonal album – the trend now is for a more generic “winter” title – is to delve into the past or explore the new. In
2023-09-11 13:54:48
From Renaissance to Baroque. 2023
This Week in Classical Music: September 11, 2023. Transitions. For the last four weeks, we were preoccupied with two Florentine composers, Emilio de' Cavalieri and Jacopo Peri. In a way, this is unusual, as neither of them was what we would call “great,” as were, for example, Tomás Luis de Victoria, just two years older than Cavalieri, or Giovanni Gabrieli, born sometime between Cavalieri and Peri. But somehow the Florentines became instrumental in furthering one of the great shifts in classical music, from polyphony to monody of the early Baroque. This is a fascinating topic in itself: How could the relatively simplistic works of Cavalieri and Peri replace the grand and sophisticated music of the High Renaissance? How could such stunning works as Victoria’s Funeral Mass or Gabrieli’s In Ecclesiis fall out of favor while the first rather clumsy attempts at opera became all the rage? As far as we […]
2023-09-04 14:58:48
Jacopo Peri, part II, 2023
This Week in Classical Music: September 4, 2023. Jacopo Peri and Florence. Last week we started the story of Jacopo Peri, an important but mostly forgotten composer. Before we get back to it, we’d like to mention a Florentine institution that was instrumental in the development of ideas that Peri followed in his work. This institution is called Camerata de’ Bardi, or Florentine Camerata. Count Giovanni de’ Bardi was a nobleman, writer, composer, and, in his younger years, a soldier. He was also an important patron of the arts and organized a society dedicated to the study of ancient Greek music in relation to the music of the day. That was in the 1570s and ‘80s, so we have to remember that the important music of the time was composed in the form of polyphony by the likes of Palestrina. We love his music, and that of Orlando Lasso or […]
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