The Sixteen, a mixed vocal ensemble founded and conducted by Harry Christophers, has a repertoire ranging from plainsong to contemporary works. This album, Christus Natus Est: An Early English Christmas, includes works from the fourteenth through the seventeenth centuries. What's most notable about it is the impressive range of appropriate ...
The title of this album by the Orlando Consort -- Medieval Christmas -- should be taken at face value -- this is not the kind of familiar merry Renaissance music that is sung and played by costumed revelers at madrigal dinners, this is unaccompanied vocal music primarily of the eleventh through the fifteenth centuries, presented without ...
The Sixteen's compilation of three of its Christmas albums offers a generous and wide selection of seasonal music. The diversity of performance practices mastered by the English mixed ensemble, founded and conducted by Harry Christophers, shows that it has the stylistic range to persuasively put across repertoire from the medieval to the ...
Founded in 1976, the Folger Consort has primarily focused on music of the Renaissance, but also branches out forward and backward through history. In this collection of music for Christmas, the Washington, D.C.,-based ensemble includes Medieval and Renaissance vocal and instrumental works. The program is divided into sections based on geography ...
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