| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 27-Mar-2013 Howard Assembly Room | Stile Antico sing music for Easter in Leeds |
Entitled “Passion and Resurrection”, this exquisite concert from Stile Antico unfolded as an exploration of music written in response to Holy Week.
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| 5-Mar-2013 St Sepulchre-without-Newgate | Stile Antico sing Masters of Europe in London |
Premièring a new touring programme at their home church of St Sepulchre-without-Newgate, early music vocal ensemble Stile Antico treated us to a concert centred around the music of the Hapsburg courts of the late 15th and 16th centuries. Taking a journey through the music of the Burgundian and Flemish courts under the reign of Maximillian I, his grandson Charles V and great-grandson Philip II, we began tonight’s concert with the first installment of the mass setting which interspersed the programme: the Kyrie from the Missa Quam pulchra es by Nicolas Gombert.Read full review... | |
| 1-Mar-2013 Oslo Cathedral | Oslo Church Music Festival: Passion and poetry with The Tallis Scholars |
It would seem that Easter has come early to Oslo. Friday marked the opening of the Oslo International Church Music Festival, a festival that this year is devoted to the ever-paschal theme of the passion. The opening concert was held in the Oslo Cathedral and was sung by the British vocal ensemble The Tallis Scholars.
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| 20-Feb-2013 College of St Hild and St Bede Chapel | The Rose, the Lily and the Whortleberry: The Orlando Consort |
The medieval garden was an enchanted place, a place where the beauties of nature took on formal and symbolic qualities, and the perfect setting for the coded artifice of courtly love. Through a carefully selected programme, the Orlando Consort allowed us a peek into the secrets of medieval gardens across Europe, to observe both the rigid formality of the knights and ladies, and much earthier goings-on behind the rose bushes and in the garden shed.
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