| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 9-Jun-2012 Durham Cathedral | Renaissance for Durham |
 In my notes for this evening’s concert by Renaissance, a chamber choir founded by the young singer, conductor and composer Ben Rowarth, one word kept recurring – “thoughtful”. This was a programme that had been carefully put together, and which was performed without any unnecessary flashiness or attempts to impress. The result was an evening of outstanding musicality and maturity; it was hard to believe that Ben Rowarth is just 20, and that almost all the singers were under 30.Read full review... | |
| 3-May-2012 St David's Hall | The Sacred in the Secular: The Tallis Scholars at St. David's Hall |
 I wasn’t sure, at first, how it would feel to listen to sacred Renaissance works in St. David’s Hall, a modern, secular concert hall. I wasn’t convinced that the beauty of these pieces and the compositional effects, so suited to the vaulted lofts of a cathedral, would carry over when so far removed from their original context. So I was pleasantly surprised by just how well these pieces did work, by how the space was almost transformed by the purity of the sound.Read full review... | |
| 15-Oct-2010 Durham Cathedral | The Sixteen: Choral Pilgrimage 2010 - Durham |
 In his introductory talk before The Sixteen’s Choral Pilgrimage concert in Durham Cathedral, conductor Harry Christophers explained that the original idea of their Choral Pilgrimage series was to bring the glories of English church music back into the buildings for which the pieces had been written. It seemed fitting, therefore, that in this tenth anniversary year, the choir should have chosen a programme of works by Byrd, Sheppard and Tallis, three composers from the Tudor age, that age which set the style of worship in England down to today.
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