Best Classical Song: 'Poor Wayfaring Stranger' by Peter Hollens with Swingle Singers
Best Jazz Album: 'Midnight' by The Songmen
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Best Classical Song: 'Poor Wayfaring Stranger' by Peter Hollens with Swingle Singers
Best Jazz Album: 'Midnight' by The Songmen
For more information please click here.
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Following Stile Antico’s fourth performance at the Boston Early Music Festival, the Boston Globe hailed that ‘Stile Antico makes all else just noise…the Agnus Dei of the Mass was one of the most beautiful things I have ever heard’ (Boston Globe) and the Boston Musical Intelligencer wrote that ‘nothing can replace the pure pleasure of hearing this talented ensemble live’ (Boston Musical Intelligencer). The Vancouver Sun reported that ‘the volcanic reaction from the Chan Centre audience was jarring but well deserved. A single encore ended an evening of near perfection’, the New York Times praised Stile Antico’s ‘appealingly warm, fresh performance [presenting] a world of gracefully spun themes that sound as moving on their own as in context’ (New York Times) and the Seattle Sun Break wrote that ‘from unison plainchant which ebbed and flowed like speech, to seven intricate, complex parts for the Tallis, Stile Antico sang unaccompanied with exact pitch and no vibrato so that chords were marvels of perfection’ (Seattle Sun Break). Finally, radio station WQXR’s Operavore Best of 2011 in Opera article, published just the day after Stile Antico’s performance in New York, highlighted Stile Antico’s ‘seamless blending of voices [which] breathed new life into Tudor-era Advent classics. The effect was mesmerizing and meditative—exactly what one looks for in an early music' (WQXR's Operavore) and this concert was listed by Alex Ross in The New Yorker's Best Classical Performances of 2011.
For further reviews of the tour visit Stile Antico’s website here.
]]>David Owen Norris rounds out the year with a New Year's Eve special on Radio 4 at 10:30 am: Cheers! A History of Toasting, presented by John Sergeant and with music selected, arranged and explained by Norris and performed by the choir of Clare College, Cambridge, directed by Graham Ross. This will be followed by his Charles Dickens's iPod at 13:30 on 1st January on Radio 4.
Don't miss The Prince and the Composer, A Film about Hubert Parry by HRH the Prince of Wales on Christmas Day, at 3.10 pm on BBC 2:
'The joy of this programme was the deconstruction of the music by choristers and musicologists, in particular, a simply marvellous chap called David Owen Norris, who explained the ethereal nuts and bolts of Jerusalem with the panache and fizz of a rhythmic vacuum-cleaner salesman. Somebody needs to sign this man up for a series on why we love the music we love, right now.' Sunday Times
Finally, Norris's Burns's iPod is repeated 3 times on Radio4Xtra on Burns Night, January 25th
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As Agents, Ikon Arts Management will continue to play a key role in the development of VOCES8’s rapidly expanding touring schedule. Whilst General Manager, EPAM, will forge ahead with the many groundbreaking educational and repertoire publishing opportunities that this new partnership offers to the publishing arm of Edition Peters.
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The London A Cappella Festival has announced the winners of the Composition Competition 2012 in association with Oxford University Press.
Alan Smith's 'View Me Lord' was the winning entry for Category A. The winning piece will be published by Oxford University Press and will be performed at the London A Cappella Festival in January 2012.
David Jenkin's 'Full Fathom Five' was the winning entry for Category B. The winning piece will be performed by the Swingle Singers at the London A Cappella Festival in January 2012. In addition to this, the winning piece will be performed by the Swingle Singers in concert in 2012.
No winner has been awarded this year for Category C
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The disc is to be realeased next month on Nimbus records.
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We are delighted to announce the line-up for the London A Cappella Festival 2012 taking place in January at Kings Place!
The London A Cappella Festival 2012 will showcase some of the best of choral, jazz, contemporary and beatbox ensembles, with music ranging from choral opulence to British Barbershop and soulful jazz to ground-shaking beatbox. Headline acts include a cappella rock sensation FORK, cool Canadian rat pack Cadence, all-female beatbox vocal group The Boxettes as well as festival hosts The Swingle Singers, not to mention performances by the Vasari Singers, Cottontown Chorus and the London Vocal Project.
Following continuing overwhelming demand we will pack in even more events this year to include workshops, foyer events and a panel discussion. Please go to the festival website for more details.
***Tickets will go on sale soon***
Enjoy Klezmer and Sephardi music in a great day out for the family, featuring 5 leading UK Klezmer and Sephardi Bands at Regent's Park Bandstand from 1 - 5pm;
Aside from the music, there will be an exhibition and displays of Jewish culture; children’s activities; kosher food; CDs and Jewish artifacts for sale.
Pack your picnics, we'll see you there!
http://www.klezmerinthepark.org.uk/
"the Tippetts show sustained excellence in faultless sound." Malcolm Hayes
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