Where the Classical, African, and Caribbean traditions collide is where Jazz was born. Why is it important in jazz, or any modern music for that matter, to have an awareness of the early Western ...

One of the most influential choral recordings of our time was of Victoria's Tenebrae Responsories, sung with raw passion half a century ago by the Westminster Cathedral Choir under George Malcolm.

Lamentations of Jeremiah Thomas Tallis, Composer (The) Cardinall's Musick Andrew Carwood, Conductor In pace in idipsum Andrew Carwood, Conductor (The) Cardinall's Musick Thomas Tallis, Composer Short ...

HOW doth the city cram itself with people, that was full of pleasant places! how is she become as an urban redevelopment center! she that was great among the nations and princess among the provinces, ...

As Peter Phillips points out in his sleeve notes to his choir's beautifully understated recording of one of the greatest achievements of Spanish Golden Age polyphony, the expressive intensity driving ...

It’s a bold programme – unshowy to the point of wilfulness, taking music so directly, so functionally liturgical and presenting it for aesthetic ends. At one stage during the prayers the voices break ...

Alexandra Coghlan for Building a Library surveys recordings of Tallis's Lamentations of Jeremiah. Thomas Tallis set the first and second lessons of Tenebrae for Maundy Thursday in the 1560s at a time ...