Live in Concert: The Monteverdi Choir - Renaissance Polyphony

[doversoul1]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01jxsb4

Monday 18th

What a treat!!
I wonder why JEG didn’t call his choir William Byrd or Thomas Tomkins Choir.

[DracoM]

Didn't Gavin Turner run the William Byrd Choir?

doversoul: how big did you think that choir was this evening? Just on the basis of the sound they made?

[doversoul1]

Oh…have I said a wrong thing?

This is purely an impression, but larger than The (regular) Sixteen but smaller than their usual Bach performing size?

[pole_2_pole]

The presenter said 27 singers...

[DracoM]

Thanks. Didn't catch that at the beginning.

[jean]

Larger than the usual forces for this sort of music these days.

It worked well, I thought. Ecce vicit leo came over especially well. It's a difficult piece to bring off, it seems - I've loved singing it, but nearly always been diappointed when I've heard it.

(When I sang with the Thomas Tallis Society, it never, ever sang Tallis. But it was based at St Alphege, Greenwich, where Tallis was organist - or rather, he was organist of the church that preceded the present one, which is by Hawksmoor.)