Pierre de Manchicourt, a Franco-Flemish composer whose biography is largely obscure, was a transitional figure in Renaissance polyphony. He was one of the last great masters of intensely contrapuntal polyphony before a more homophonic style took hold in the mid-sixteenth century. The CD, featuring Stephen Rice conducting the Brabant Ensemble, a ...
The Sixteen, a mixed choir with powerful women's voices, doesn't offer passage into a Renaissance soundworld in the way that a choir with really well-trained boy singers can do. But they've been exceptionally successful with Renaissance and Baroque choral releases that mix sensuously beautiful singing with compelling presentation of the music. ...
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