March 1994

New Releases for Holy Week

Composer: Giovanni Razzi, Angelo Gardano, Dammonis, Lasso, Bedyngham, Hedus, Lurano, Franciscus Vasquez, Estêvão de Brito, C. Morales, Victoria, Lienas, M. Cardoso, Richard Davy (c.1465-1507), John Browne (fl.c.1490), William Cornysh the elder (d.1502), Sheryngham (fl.c.1500), William Cornysh (d.1523), Walter Lambe (c.1450/51–d.After Michaelmas 1499), Robert Wylkynson (c.1450-1515 or later)

CD Info: Sony CD 53899, Pavane CD ADW 7239, Naxos CD 8.550712, Naxos CD 8.550711, Jade CD 1221.43, Jade CD 12.18.80, Erato CD 88102, GDC CD 15015, Spanish EMI 7 62735 2, Jade CD 092, Accent CD 9289, Accent CD 9394, Coro CD 16012, Coro CD16022

The Gothic Voices

NOTE: All of the music on this program is from the ensemble The Gothic Voices directed by our guest on the program, Christopher Page.

Composer: Guillaume de Machaut (c1300-1377), Solage (fl1370-1390), J de Porta (?-?), Paolo da Firenze (d1419), Jacob de Senleches (fl1378-1395), Guillaume Dufay (c1400-1474), Gilet Velut (fl early 15th century-?), Johannes de Lymburgia (fl1400-1440), Juan del Encina (1468-1529/30), Luys de Narváez (fl1526-1549), Francisco de Peñalosa (c1470-1528), Gabriel de Texerana (?1480-1528), Luys Milán (c1500-after 1560), Julio Segni (1498-1561), Francisco Fernández Palero  (d1597), Enrique (d1488)

CD Info: Helios CDH55295, Helios CDH55298

The Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford

NOTE: Our guest for this program is the long-time conductor of the Choir of Magdalen College Oxford, Bill Ives.

Composer: William Byrd (1543-1623) , Thomas Morley (ca. 1557-1602), John Farmer (ca. 1570- after 1601), Richard Farrant (1525-1580), Philip van Wilder (1500-1553), Christopher Tye (1505-1572), Thomas Tallis (ca. 1505- 1585), John Sheppard (1515-1558), Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625), Thomas Weelkes (1575-1623) , Les Tomkins, Thomas Tomkins (1572-1656), John Blow (1649-1708), Henry Purcell (1659-1695), William Croft (1678-1727), Maurice Greene (1696-1755), William Boyce (1711-1779), Jonathan Battishill (1738-1801), Thomas Attwood (1765-1838), Samuel Sebastian Wesley (1810-1876), Frederick Arthur Gore Ouseley (1825-1889), John Stainer (1840-1901), Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924), Hubert Parry (1848-1918), Charles Wood (1886-1926), Edward Bairstow (1874-1946), John Ireland (1879-1962), Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958), Gerald Finzi (1901-1956), Gustav Holst (1874-1934), Herbert Howells (1892-1983), William Walton (1902-1983), Roy James Stewart, Bernard Rose (1916-1996), John Joubert (1927-2019), Benjamin Britten (1913-1976), William H. Harris (1883-1973), Jonathan Harvey (1939-2012), Lennox Berkeley (1903-1989), John Tavener (1944-2013), Richard Rodney Bennett (1936-2012), Kenneth Leighton (1929-1988), Adriano Banchieri (1568-1634), William Cornyshe (1470-1523), Thomas Ford (1580-1648), Anthony Holborne (1545-1602), Thomas Morley (1557-1602), John Bull (1562-1628), Clément Janequin (1485-1558), Hans Leo Hassler (1564-1612), Robert Lucas Pearsall (1795-1856), Sir Henry Rowley Bishop (1786-1855), John Liptrot Hatton (1808-1886), Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562-1621), Mátyás Seiber (1905-1960), Daryl Runswick (1946-), Gordon Langford (1930-2017) , Benjamin Rogers,

CD Info: Alto 4 CD ALC 4001,

Chant

NOTE: In March, 1994, we had the great honor of premiering the second-best selling classical recording in history (after The Three Tenors) to the entire Western hemisphere. Here is that program.

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