
I’ve never understood why the powers that control the commercial aspects of holidays have failed to exploit the fact that the Christmas season actually lasts
[Re-post from 2016] In the first couple of decades after the advent of the CD, new and reissued Christmas releases were as plentiful as the
Here’s one that somehow slipped out of last year’s review lineup, but deserves not to be missed by anyone who loves what’s known as “Tudor
The program concept—settings of texts inspired by the events of Holy Week and Easter—makes sense, but even if we weren’t aware of the liturgical and
The young British ensemble Stile Antico seems to be following a prodigiously promising career course reminiscent of several other highly successful specialist groups such as
The endless hot summer drags on, and the promise of Advent and Christmas, recalled by the mid-August arrival of this new recording from Stile Antico,
After hearing Jean Lhéritier’s magnificent and deeply affecting setting of Nigra sum you might understandably feel cleansed, blessed, and exonerated from all misdeeds you’ve ever
It’s not easy to conceive and successfully impose a concert-performance dynamic on the formal, square structures of Tallis’ Psalm-tune settings, bringing an air of excitement
This outstanding release comes on the heels of another fine recording whose program just happens to concern the same subject: music for Compline, the last