The English certainly do love their choral music, especially on Christmas when the whole country comes together in its cathedrals to sing praise to the birth of the Jesus. It's a long, strong tradition going back centuries and it's been recorded since the invention of recording. Since the war, every generation has had its great English choral ...
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 ...
L'arbre de mai (The Tree of May) is a terrifically presented album of early Renaissance music, one that tries to place the listener inside the musical culture of the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries and does a highly imaginative -- sometimes overactively imaginative -- job of it. The album divides its 19 works into four thematic groups ...
The three-disc set A Boston Camerata Christmas combines complete reissues of the ensemble's An American Christmas and Noël, Noël! French Christmas Music, 1200-1600, with a compilation from another of its recordings to form A Spanish Christmas. While the enclosed booklet does contain shortened versions of director (emeritus by late 2008) Joel Cohen ...
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