Music of the Habsburg dynsasty: EMS 23 July

[doversoul1]

Lucie Skeaping presents highlights of a concert from the York Early Music Festival, featuring Austrian vocal ensemble Cinquecento in repertoire by Jacobus Vaet and Jacob Regnart.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08yrk54

[doversoul1]

I thought this was a wonderful concert. The six-voice male ensemble sounded like textbook performance in the best sense. Here’s the group’s website

http://www.ensemblecinquecento.com/

Definitely worth listening if you like or interested in Renaissance vocal works.

Ah, Lucie has just said ‘the countertenor Terry Wey’. I thought it (the countertenor voice) sounded very good.

[richardfinegold]

I know it's nitpicking, but couldn't the title be meant to encompass all music composed in Ost-Ria and it's environs up until 1918?

[doversoul1]

I know it's nitpicking, but couldn't the title be meant to encompass all music composed in Ost-Ria and it's environs up until 1918?

I am sorry if the thread title misled you but as this is a thread about Early Music Show, the music included tends to be pre-Mozart/Haydn. The programme does cover the composers from the latter half of the 18th century like the Bach brothers or other in-between composers like Clementi but that’s as far as it goes ([ed.] as far as I am aware).

That besides, I hope you enjoyed the programme.