The above gave a splendid lunchtime concert today on R3.
The theme was music composed in the reign of James I which had some connection (occasionally tenuous) with the politics around the Gunpowder Plot.
The tuning of the ensemble was amazing. My only wish was that it might have been given in a London church rather than the Wigmore, where I felt the singers, maybe especially the two excellent sopranos, had to 'work harder' to sustain their sound.
The theme was music composed in the reign of James I which had some connection (occasionally tenuous) with the politics around the Gunpowder Plot.
The tuning of the ensemble was amazing. My only wish was that it might have been given in a London church rather than the Wigmore, where I felt the singers, maybe especially the two excellent sopranos, had to 'work harder' to sustain their sound.
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