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On Signum Classics this month the viols of Fretwork join with Sergio Bucheli (theorbo) and Silas Wollston (harpsichord) to bring us Matthew Locke's The Little Consort—in performances every bit as enthralling as theirs of the 'Flat Consort' issued earlier in the year. And Adrian Chandler leads La Serenissima in a further exploration of lesser-known Italian concertos. Forza azzurri! features works by Zavateri, Dall'Abaco, Sammartini and Vivaldi, as well as an extensive suite by Brescianelli. The recorder soloist is the excellent Tabea Debus.
Jeremy Filsell took up the post of Organist & Director of Music at Saint Thomas Church, 5th Avenue, in April 2019. For a new recording on Signum Classics he puts this famous church's organs (there are five of them) through their paces in the complete Clavier-Übung III by J S Bach, a collection extraordinary for the sheer diversity of musical material and methods to be found as it traverses a musical path through the central tenets of Lutheranism. Musical 'interludes' are provided by Bach's harmonizations of chorales in performances by the world-renowned Choir of Men & Boys.
The Christmas season is well and truly upon us with three spangly new albums from Signum. First up is In winter's house from Tenebrae and Nigel Short, a wide-ranging programme of favourites old and new in trademark performances of the greatest precision. The Choirs of Pembroke College Cambridge under the palpably inspirational direction of Anna Lapwood take a rather different—and impressively appealing—approach, with a programme entitled simply A Pembroke Christmas: carols and arrangments largely new to the catalogue, and including several put together by the choristers themselves. And from the all-male voices of Cantus we have Into the Light, a decidedly more American approach to the holiday season with a free-wheeling medley of arrangments, sacred and secular, captured in opulent close-harmony sound.
Anyone who has been following releases on the 1equalmusic label will know to expect the unexpected, and Nineteen to the dozen will not disappoint. Described by conductor Antony Pitts as 'an a cappella conversation without words', we find here twenty living Australian composers challenged each to create a miniature soundworld from scratch—no title, no words, and no programme notes allowed. As can be viscerally heard in these live performances from The Song Company, the musical and emotional responses range from the deeply serious, awe-inspiring and tear-jerking, to the cheeky and downright silly.
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