Tomás Luis de Victoria is a Spanish a cappella choral composer of the late Renaissance, a generation younger than Palestrina. His best-known works are a few motets, above all O magnum mysterium, which have populated the programs of college glee clubs for years. O magnum mysterium is of a somber cast that reinforces the notion of Victoria's Spanish ...
The works on this Hyperion Peter Maxwell Davies disc are all new; outside of the short organ work Reliqui domum meum composed in 1996, all of this music was composed in the opening years of the twenty-first century. The Missa parvula is a radiant and numinous piece scored for mostly unison children's voices and organ, whereas Maxwell Davies' ...
The aim of this program is simple, but it's one that is not often attempted, at Westminster Abbey or anywhere else. To quote the superb notes by conductor James O'Donnell, "This disc contains music you might hear if you visited Westminster Abbey on the Feast of St. Michael and All Angels, commonly called Michaelmas, which falls on 29 September." ...
The choral pieces on this CD -- anthems, hymns, odes, and service music -- support the proposition that Elgar was essentially a miniaturist who breaks the longer texts into shorter individual sections, each with its own character, rather than creating extended organic structures. Even his larger works, such as Enigma Variations and The Dream of ...
The cover of this disc, evocative of a shopping-mall display, fails to so much as hint at the riches within: a collection of contemporary Christmas pieces that, in its range, will be of interest even to those of other faiths or none at all. As ever, it is the eclectic spirit that forms the great British strength. On this disc, populists and pop ...
This is something of a specialist recording, using musicological writings (including some by the celebrated Joseph Kerman, rounding out his career with Byrd where he began) to flesh out the picture of Byrd's music as a reflection of the sorts of underground Catholic activities that, in the extreme, manifested themselves in the Gunpowder Plot. What ...
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