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St AlbansThe Sixteen: Monteverdi's Vespers of 1610
Monteverdi: Vespro della Beata Vergine "Vespers of the Blessed Virgin" (1610)
The Orchestra of The Sixteen; Harry Christophers; The Sixteen
LondonDouce Douleur: Love songs from the Courts of France & Flanders
Verdelot, Gombert, Dufay, Rore, Agricola, Binchois, des Prez, Janequin
Jessica Eucker; Charlotte Osborn; Tristram Cooke; Matthew O'Keeffe
LondonTemple Church Choristers and Youth Choir
Victoria, Duruflé, Sumsion, Ives, Mendelssohn, Elgar
Roger Sayer; Choristers of Temple Church Choir
MulhouseLa divisione del mondo
Legrenzi: La divisione del mondo
Christophe Rousset; Jetske Mijnssen; Opéra National du Rhin; Herbert Murauer; Julia Katharina Berndt; Soraya Mafi; Ada Elodie Tuca
BarcelonaCor de Cambra del Palau & Simon Carrington: À la française
Sermisy, de Manchicourt, Bouzignac, Charpentier, Fauré, Poulenc
Simon Halsey; Chamber Chorus of the Palau de la Música Catalana; Xavier Puig; Jordi Armengol; Simon Carrington
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Sounds of darkness in Cantata Profana's “Visions of Silence”
An eerie program of resonant sounds and sacred songs overtakes New York’s St Peter's Chelsea with Alvin Lucier, Salvatore Sciarrino and Galina Ustvokskaya alongside 17th-century works for an evening not short on drama.
Venus Unwrapped kicks off on an uneven playing field
It was unfair to pair the exquisite madrigals and songs of Barbara Strozzi with a weighty piece by Monteverdi.
A smorgasbord of seasonal English music in Washington DC
The early music ensemble peppered its diverse program with the rollicking play A Christmas Messe. While not all arrangements worked well, expertise and emotion made for a pleasurably unique performance.
A fuller Monty: Monteverdi's Christmas Vespers
David Fallis and colleagues offered a ravishing -- and original -- gift of Christmas music with an "alternate" Venetian Vespers drawn from Monteverdi's last published collection of sacred music.
Soulful Advent music from the Scottish Ensemble with Sean Shibe
The Scottish Ensemble with guitarist Sean Shibe perform a thoughtful programme of ancient and modern Christmas-themed music in a candlelit St John’s Kirk.
The Sixteen's Round-Britten Choral Pilgrimage reaches Durham
The Sixteen's Choral Pilrimage dissolves the boundaries between old and new, sacred and profane with striking performances of music by Cornysh and Britten.
Dido and Aeneas rescue a disappointing Baroque triple bill from ETO
English Touring Opera's triple bill of early Baroque miniatures promised an intruiging evening but failed up to expectations.
Re-imagining: A showcase for innovation at Kings Place
The unlikely pairing of jazz and Baroque makes complete sense under the baton of Sam Poppleton.
