This is one of my favorite pieces by any composer…
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A week ago, we played works by Gibbons and Weelkes, contemporaries of Batten…
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In celebration of the day the Emancipation Proclamation was finally put into effect – June 19, 1865 – we again feature the exceptional Moses Hogan…
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These movements are quintessential examples of Palestrina’s serene, flowing, spiritually elevated style…
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Among our family of wonderful soloists, the gorgeous soprano Vanessa Vasquez is one of our favorite and most frequent guests…
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One of the most famous of all Renaissance motets, O Magnum Mysterium displays Victoria’s unique style…
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This famous and remarkable ceremonial piece was composed in 1727 for the coronation of King George II…
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What a beautiful piece this is! But it is hardly ever done…
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Today’s piece is from exactly the same school of virtuosic English anthems as the Gibbons piece yesterday…
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At the end of the 16th and beginning of the 17th centuries many composers of choral music…
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Pablo Casals was one of the most revered cellists in history…
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From the rich repertory of Russian Orthodox music composed during the late 19th and early 20th centuries…
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We have a whole Delos recording of the music of this great Medieval mystic…
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Byrd’s Justorum animae is perhaps the most profound setting of that text I know…
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Oh, what a beautiful piece this is! How can something be so simple and discrete and yet evoke so many nuanced feelings?
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Today and tomorrow I thought we would have two selections by the great French composer Gabriel Fauré…
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Today we feature our dear friend, the incredible bass-baritone, Kevin Deas…
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Yesterday we played an arrangement by the most revered arranger of Spirituals in our lifetime, Moses Hogan. Today we feature perhaps the best-known master of them all, Harry T. Burleigh…
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We had planned another piece for today but simply couldn’t carry on in our usual manner in the midst of this heartbreaking time of national distress…
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For our very first recording for Delos we were incredibly lucky to collaborate with the great American tenor Vinson Cole…
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