Tijdens haar optreden in het Festival Oude Muziek afgelopen augustus mocht Stile Antico een Edison Klassiek in ontvangst nemen voor het album Puer natus est. Ook op dit album – met werken van Thomas Tallis, Thomas Morley, John Taverner en de mis voor vier stemmen van William Byrd – brengt Stile Antico de sfeer van de late Renaissance prachtig tot leven. Het programma van dit album is gebaseerd op de Tudor Church Music edition, die eeuwen later Howells, Britten en Vaughan Wiliams inspireerde. Stile Antico – het vocaal ensemble zonder dirigent – draagt met deze opname bij aan het in stand houden van de eeuwenlange Engelse koortraditie. Stuk voor stuk pareltjes die een grote ruimte uitstekend tot hun recht komen. Aanrader.
The Phoenix Rising
The Carnegie Trust & the revival of Tudor Church Music
Byrd:
Ave verum Corpus
Mass for five voices
Gibbons, O:
O clap your hands
Almighty and everlasting God
Morley:
Nolo mortem peccatoris
Tallis:
Salvator mundi, salva nos 1 - antiphonn for five voices
In ieiunio et fletu
Taverner:
O splendor gloriae
White, Robert:
Portio mea
Christe qui lux es et dies IV
Stile Antico
Amongst the many endeavours funded by the Carnegie Trust (marking its centenary in 2013) was the publication and editing of 'Tudor Church Music' in ten large folio volumes of music, with 50 performing pieces published individually. This had a considerable impact on the revival of this important music: for the first time a significant body of the greatest Tudor compositions became accessible to scholars, performers and listeners having languished in cathedrals, museums and colleges. It also inspired a further generation of English composers after its resurrection including Howells, Britten and Vaughan Williams.
Stile Antico presents a varied selection of the finest pieces from TCM in a programme centred around William Byrd’s masterful five-part mass.
Stile Antico is an elite ensemble of young British singers, working without a conductor, each contributing artistically to the musical result. They are now established as the crack ensemble to beat, having enjoyed huge success, via their SACD recordings for harmonia mundi USA. Awards include the 2009 Gramophone Award for Early Music [Song of Songs] which also reached the top of the US Classical Chart. Their performances have repeatedly been praised for their vitality, commitment and imaginative response to text.
Highlights of Stile Antico's 2012-13 season include a series of concerts as co-curators of the Wigmore Hall's William Byrd: Sacred Music festival, and this new recording celebrating the centenary of the Carnegie UK Trust, publisher of the pioneering Tudor Church Music edition.
