On their latest stellar recording, the Suspicious Cheese Lords focus on Palestrina’s ‘Missa Illumina oculos meos,’ and the lengthy motet by Andreas de Silva on which it’s based. World premiere recordings, beautifully sung.
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Chamber ensemble AGAVE’s latest album, with the versatile voice of soprano Michele Kennedy, crisscrosses the Atlantic and spans several centuries. The focus is on women composers from the 17th through 20th centuries. Carefully planned, beautifully paced, this album forges connections deeper than the composers’ shared womanhood.
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Using church records, Robert Nosow’s fascinating, richly detailed book portrays Jacob Obrecht at St. Donatian in Bruges, and the church singers he composed for. The choristers were deeply embedded in the city’s civic life, and records show some were disciplined for mockery or being ‘extremely lazy, disobedient, and wholly incapable.’
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New York City’s TENET Vocal Artists is devoting its 15th season to music by, for, and about women. It’s not to suggest that men are not important, says TENET founder Jolle Greenleaf. Instead, ‘it’s to ask what changes in the sound, in the dynamics, and how do we interact with each other.’
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‘Myths Contested,’ the Washington Bach Consort’s new recording, pairs Bach at his most theatrical and humorous with new music. Trevor Weston’s evocative cantata ‘A New Song’ deserves its own place in a concert setting — and not just alongside Bach performed with period instruments.
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