Australian Brandenburg Orchestra: English Music Masterpieces
The Australian Brandenburg Orchestra present music from the fairest isle with works by Thomas Tallis, Orlando Gibbons, Henry Purcell and more to kick start 2018
William Byrd
A Little Lunch Music – The Song Company, Rose Niland Review
Rose Niland reports the audience at the City Recital Hall, Sydney, was invested in sounds of beauty as The Song Company embraced and answered the call of Spring
Vale Christopher Hogwood – Master Enabler of Musical Beauty
Vale Christopher Hogwood (1941- 2014) conductor harpsichordist musicologist and genius of early music you kept everyone playing and appreciating beautiful music
Choir – Art of Singing As One Voice, Part 2 Church & State
During the seventh century Isidore of Seville, a notable musical theorist and scholar remarked about how hard it was to notate music. However as the recognition that the various sounds the human voice was able to make could be recorded so did the idea of arranging those notes to make…
The Schola Cantorum – Singing Songs of Praise as One Voice
In the early Christian church creating songs of praise, devotion and thanksgiving, reflected the beauty of the cosmos. When accompanied by dance movements and hand clapping, from the fourth century onward, rhythmical hymnody took the lead. Aurelius Ambrose (St Ambrose c337 – 397) descended from an ancient Roman family. He…
William Byrd’s Supreme Testaments in Western Music
By the time of Pope Gregory 1 (540 – 604), there was a distinct appreciation of fine singing and a genuine regard for the beautiful voice. Pope Gregory re-organized the liturgy and its music, influencing the establishment of an schola cantorum, a choir that executed psalmody, the singing of psalms…