
There is an ancient depiction of Bohemia as a rose, […]
You wouldn’t expect a disc of Funeral Motets & Deplorations to be as uplifting, looking at this release from Cappella Amsterdam with Josquin Des Prez’s
The disc’s title refers to the fate of the outspoken and for a time widely popular 15th-century friar Girolamo Savonarola, executed in Florence in 1498
I never thought I really wanted to hear Thomas Morley’s
Four years ago, I last wrote about New York Polyphony, the male vocal quartet who here makes its debut on BIS. The recording was a
It’s not easy to find the name Pierre Moulu mentioned in the music history books–and indeed this new recording claims to be the first devoted
Since The Tallis Scholars are no strangers to Josquin, and since in the last couple of years the ensemble has repackaged some of its earlier
Although the Mass D’ung aultre amer (To love another…) gets top billing on this program and is programmed at the beginning (following the Ockeghem rondeau
For more than 25 years Peter Phillips and his Tallis Scholars have shown how scrupulous dedication to a specialty (Renaissance vocal music), uncompromising performance standards,
Back in 1981 an English vocal ensemble called The Tallis Scholars issued its first recording, Palestrina’s Missa Benedicta es, made in the ideal acoustic setting
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