May 2019

Stile Antico: Tenebrae Responsories

In the first of three programs with this celebrated group, we share the profound and moving Holy Week settings by Thomas Luis de Victoria.

Composer: Thomas Luis de Victoria.

CD Info: HMM 902272.

Stephen Cleobury and the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge

The longest-serving conductor of this world-famous ensemble looks back on his work, and the service King's College has done for early music. NOTE: All of the music on this program is features the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge and our guest Stephen Cleobury. For more information: http://www.kings.cam.ac.uk/choir/index.html

Composer: Thomas Weelkes, Orlando Gibbons, Thomas Tomkins, William Byrd, Claudio Monteverdi, Samuel Scheidt, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Antonio Lotti, Gabriel Fauré, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, César Franck, John Rutter, C. Hubert , H. Parry, John Goss, Henry Walford Davies, Lennox Berkeley, Ola Gjeilo, Frank Martin, Morten Lauridsen, Stephen Paulus,

CD Info: EMI CD 0946-3-94430-24, CD KGS0024, KGS0034

The Orlando Consort and Guillaume de Machaut

Don Greig shares the newest three recordings from the new series on Hyperion of the complete works of Machaut: “Sovereign Beauty,” “Fortune’s Child,” and “The Gentle Physician."

Composer: Guillaume de Machaut (c1300-1377) ,

CD Info: CD CDA 68134, CD CDA 68195, CD CDA 68206

Desires: A Song of Songs collection

Note: For this month and next, we share interviews from our recent journey to England celebrating some of the great conductors and ensemble. Suzi Digby joins us with the latest from her Ora Singers, featuring “the sensuous and highly-charged texts of the Song of Songs."

Composer: Antoine Brumel (c. 1460-1512/13), Jacob Clemens non Papa (c. 1510/15-c. 1555/56), Gabriel Jackson (b. 1962), Rodrigo de Ceballos (c. 1525/30-c. 1581), Robert White (c. 1538-1574), Rodrigo de Ceballos (c. 1525/30-c. 1581), Robert White (c. 1538-1574), Francis Grier (b. 1955), Nicolas Gombert (c. 1495-c. 1560), Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548-1611), Jonathan Dove (b. 1959), Sebastián de Vivanco (c. 1551-1622), Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525/26-1594), Juan Esquivel (c. 1560-c. 1624) , John Barber (b.  1980) )

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