Today we get to chat a bit about Renaissance Christmas music and the 2024 Canadian Renaissance Music Summer School, with the director Greg Skidmore. Greg sings in a number of professional chamber choir ensembles throughout the UK and elsewhere. The CRMSS fundariser, "Buy a Bar" can be found here. For CRMSS Registration information, please visit their website. Featuring a performance of Thomas Tallis's 40-voice metet, Spem in Alium, performed by I Fagiolini, found on YouTube.
Dec 18, 2023
1 hr 32 min
We get an exclusive sneak peak at some tracks on the upcoming album Penitence & Lamentations by the Byrd Ensemble, conducted by Markdavin Obenza. We sit down with Markdavin and have a conversation about several of the tracks on the upcoming record, which comes out Friday, November 3, 2023, including a new commission by Nico Muhly. Follow the Byrd Ensemble on: FacebookInstagram
Oct 30, 2023
47 min
Today we get an exclusive look into the upcoming album of Josquin's music with Dr. Jesse Rodin, a professor at Stanford University and Artistic Director/Conductor of Cut Circle. This album is the group's first installment of what will be a series of albums on Josquin's music. Dr. Rodin's research on Josquin has lead to some significant discoveries/conclusions regarding attribution of work and the "Josquin canon". You can follow Cut Circle on social media: FacebookInstagramYoutubePurchase...
Oct 24, 2023
1 hr 4 min
A great pleasure to have I Fagiolini Director Robert Hollingworth along with Baritone Greg Skidmore for an exclusive interview about I Fagiolini's upcoming album "Missa Tu Es Petrus", featuring the previously unrecorded work of the same title by 17th Century Italian Composer Orazio Benevoli. Go download on your favorite streaming service on October 6, 2023 (or the album is available for purchase. You can stay up to date on all things I Fagiolini on their website and social media pages. ...
Sep 25, 2023
1 hr 23 min
On today's episode, we walk through the concert program for Sound of Ages upcoming Evensong concert. As part of their Evensong concert series, the Autumnal Equinox Evensong theme is opposites and gratitude. There are only a few tickets left so don't miss out, get your tickets here. Dr. Andrew Huberman podcast episode about gratitude.Tenebrae performing Part I of Ne Irascaris, Domine by William Byrd. Tenebrae's website. Check out all their recordings here. Sansara's live recording of Hubert Pa...
Sep 18, 2023
41 min
Today we get to have a fantastic 'Improversation' if you will, with Dr. Peter Schubert. Peter Schubert came to Montreal from New York City, where he founded and directed Opera Uptown and The New Calliope Singers, a group renowned for its commitment to modern music during its fifteen-year career. The group presented over fifty premieres and released a critically acclaimed CD entitled "New Cantatas and Madrigals."Since 1991, he has conducted the highly respected Montreal-based group,...
Sep 11, 2023
1 hr 12 min
Today we get to have a fantastic conversation with Professor Megan Long of Oberlin College & Conservatory. Megan Kaes Long studies European song traditions of the 16th and 17th centuries and the theoretical discourses that describe them. Her book, Hearing Homophony: Tonal Expectation at the Turn of the Seventeenth Century, was published by Oxford University Press in 2020 and won the Society for Music Theory's Wallace Berry Award in 2021.Long’s articles have appeared in Music Theory Spectr...
Aug 29, 2023
1 hr 10 min
Today we get a follow up conversation with Nigel Short where he walks us through Joby Talbot's Path of Miracles. The conversation is interspersed with audio clips from each movement. Watch Tenebrae perform Path of Miracles live from La Basilique de Saint-Denis in France. Tenebrae's album of Path of Miracles can be found on their website, Apple Music, Spotify, and wherever music is streamed.
Aug 21, 2023
1 hr 38 min
Today we get to chat with Nigel Short, Conductor and Artistic Director of Tenebrae Choir. We get to hear his journey as a singer, the genesis of Tenebrae choir, Nigel's approach to choral singing, his thoughts about renaissance music and more! Nigel's Bio: Award-winning conductor Nigel Short has earned widespread acclaim for his recording and live performance work with leading orchestras and ensembles across the world.Tenebrae are special. Directed by Nigel Short, these were exemplary p...
Aug 14, 2023
1 hr 9 min
Today we talk through Andrew's newest piece commissioned by Sound of Ages for their Sing Actually narrative concert: Poor Richard's Madrigal. This piece pays homage to Thomas Morley's Now Is the Month of Maying. We discuss comedy, madrigals, and much more. Check out the live performance ofPoor Richard's Madrigal on YouTube. You can find the King's Singers performance of Now Is the Month of Maying video on YouTube as well.
Aug 7, 2023
51 min
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