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jason on 08/24/2010 at 12:50PM
The Tudor Consort: Revitalizing Early Choral Music
The Tudor Consort is a Wellington, New Zealand-based choral group that brings the music of the late Medieval and Renaissance eras to life. Active since 1986, the group has expanded their repertoire far beyond their initial focus of 16th-century Britain, to now encompass choral music from every century that followed.
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Along with commercial releases on "The World's Leading Classical Music Label" the likes of Naxos Records, The Tudor Consort make their recordings available on their website under a Creative Commons Attribution license. The Tudor Consort approached us after their free hosting expressed bandwidth concerns over hosting free music, and we were delighted to hear from them! One of the Tudor Consort's FMA offerings -- Renaissance influences - Pizzetti: Messa di Requiem / Palestrina: Missa Sicut lilium inter spinas -- is a sort of 'old-meets-new' in Italian choral music, contrasting Ildebrando Pizzetti's Messa di Requiem (1922) with Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina's Missa Sicut lilium inter spinas (1590). They also share a 20th-anniversary live collection with performances from the Parroquial Church in Ordizia, Spain and the Madonna dei Monti in Rome, which is available at left. Be sure to check out The Tudor Consort's FMA profile for more, including works by JS Bach, Tomas Luis de Victoria, Thomas Tallis and more key figures in the history of western choral music. |
