SoHIP: Jewels of the English Renaissance
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Thomas Tallis — Selected works
John Taverner — Selected works
Eton Choirbook — Selected works
Janet Stone, soprano
Rachel Garrepy, soprano
Christopher Lowrey, alto
Mark Garrepy, tenor
Michael Garrepy, bass
Nicholas Laroche, bass
Ensemble Altera performs a splendid program of early English Renaissance choral repertoire. Six vocalists present stunning one-to-a-part works by William Byrd, Thomas Tallis, John Taverner, and others ranging from the intricacies of the Eton Choirbook to the elegant simplicity of the early Reformation. The program includes a mixture of forms such as the pitch spiral of a double perfect canon and cantus firmus settings as well as simpler homophonic language. Textual themes vary from Advent to Nativity, Lent to Easter, and liturgical contexts range from a mass setting to a penitential psalm to a Vespers responsory. Filmed at the majestic Aldrich Mansion in Warwick, RI.
Performances are Wednesdays at 8pm Eastern / 5pm Pacific.
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