Is madrigal singing dying?

[jean]

Try this (hope the link works!)

I'm afraid it got very complicated, and I gave up!

[ardcarp]

We are so used to small specialist groups singing with great expertise that we forget the pleasure had by larger amateur choirs singing the tudor repertory both sacred and secular. There is something special about a large-ish choir, beautifully trained and drilled, with a wide range of dynamics, and singing part-songs and madrigals. It matters not how they might have been performed 400 years ago. As some previous posters have said, the so-called English Madrigal School produced some fantastic stuff...and I too loved it in my (all male) school madrigal choir.

[rauschwerk]

Couldn't agree more ardcarp. However I reluctantly concur with Joseph Kerman (in Grove) who writes, "Now is the Month of Maying, April is in My Mistress’ Face, Adieu, Sweet Amaryllis, The Silver Swan and one or two others are sung happily by many choral groups in Britain and America, whatever their level of accomplishment, but the ‘early music’ movement and its recording arm have generally not been kind to the English madrigal.