Scott Walker RIP – Angels of Ashes
Only two days ago I cued this up for publication. It turns out Scott Walker had already died. A while back I posted Scott’s “Little Things (That Keep Us Together)”…
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#ChoralMarch , March 26th. “Echo La Primavera”, Francesco Landini, performed by Anonymous 4.
Here is one minute seventeen seconds of the 14th Century Italian composer Francesci Landini performed by the vocal group Anonymous 4. With a title inspired by the circle of Inferno…
#ChoralMarch: March 22nd, “Rorate caeli desuper”, Schola Gregoriana Hispana
Again from Schola Gregoriana Hispana, here is “Rorate Caeli”, also known as “Drop Down Ye Heavens From Above”
#ChoralMarch, March 21st, “Ave Maria …virgo serena”, Josquin, performed by Schola Antiqua of Chicago
The influence of Schola Antiqua is evident in the name of the Chicago-based (well, obviously) ensemble Schola Antiqua of Chicago. This piece by Josquin apparently: is regarded as Josquin’s most famous…
#ChoralMarch, March 19th: “Luminosity: 1. Lux Tenebris”, James Whitbourn
Born in 1963, James Whitbourn is a contemporary choral composer who began his career with the BBC. His “Luminosity” is one of the few choral works composed for dance and…
#ClockworkMusic with Zoltán Kodály and Fulvio Caldini
In case Choral March has been a little bit too, well, choral, here are a couple of purely instrumental pieces with a theme of clocks and clockwork. First, the Musical…
#ChoralMarch: March 17th, #StPatricksDay, “The Deer’s Cry” by Arvo Pärt performed by the Sixteen
Happy St Patrick’s Day to all readers. A while back I blogged about the hymn known as St Patrick’s Breastplate or The Deer’s Cry . For the day, here is Arvo…
Malcolm Guite with pilgrimage poems for the first week of Lent
At his blog the poet Malcolm Guite features a suite of poems on pilgrimage, one for each day of the first week of Lent: In this first week in…
Séamus Sweeney 