skip to Main Content

Thursday 16 September – Stile Antico

£5.00£65.00

OPENING NIGHT

8pm Thursday 16th September 2021

Coggeshall Church

Sensational vocal ensemble Stile Antico open the festival with a musical journey from sunset to sunrise, featuring music by Byrd, Tallis & Monteverdi, a piece written specially for Stile Antico by Nico Muhly, and Allegri’s Miserere.

There are no finer singers of early music. The New York Times

The singing is staggeringly beautiful. The Sunday Times

Stile Antico is one of the world’s finest vocal ensembles, renowned for vibrant and expressive performances of music from the Renaissance.

 

Tickets available at the sides of the church.

 

Click on ‘More information’ below for full programme details and a biography of the group.

 

Description

8pm Thursday 16 September 2021

Coggeshall Church

Stile Antico present Toward the Dawn

Wilbye Draw on sweet night
White Christe qui lux es IV
John Ward Come sable night
Byrd Vigilate
Sheppard In Manus Tuas
Allegri Miserere mei

Morley/Rogier Laboravi in gemitu
Lassus Toutes les nuits
Muhly Gentle Sleep
Tallis O nata lux
Monteverdi Ecco mormorar l’onde
Taverner Ave Dei Patris Filia

Perhaps the most ravishing sound I have heard all year Alex Ross, the New Yorker

Stile Antico is firmly established as one of the world’s most accomplished and innovative vocal ensembles. Working without a conductor, its twelve members have thrilled audiences on four continents with their fresh, vibrant and moving performances of Renaissance polyphony. Its bestselling recordings have earned accolades including the Gramophone Award for Early Music, Diapason d’or de l’année, Edison Klassiek Award, and Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik. The group has received three Grammy® nominations, and performed live at the 60th Grammy® Awards at Madison Square Garden.

The term ‘stile antico’, pronounced STEE-lay an-TEE-co, literally means ‘old style’. It was coined during the seventeenth century to describe the style of Renaissance church composition epitomised by the music of Palestrina – polyphonic and imitative in texture, even in rhythm, strictly controlled in its use of dissonance – as opposed to the modern developments in the works of Monteverdi and his contemporaries. Over the centuries, the ‘stile antico’ came to be seen as an ideal of musical purity, and composers such as Beethoven, Schumann, Liszt and Bruckner studied it as part of their training. It is still taught in universities today.

 

Stile Antico’s repertoire focuses on the astonishingly rich legacy of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century polyphonic composition. It encompasses not only the music of Palestrina and his Italian, Flemish and Spanish contemporaries, but also the fascinating and diverse English school, from the dazzling complexity of the Eton Choirbook to the masterpieces of Taverner, Sheppard, Tallis and Byrd, and the Elizabethan madrigalists. Just as no single voice predominates in the polyphonic style, Stile Antico’s collaborative working method allows all its members to contribute artistically in crafting its performances. The results have been described as ‘wonderfully vivid’ – a direct, personal interpretative approach to the choral repertory, conveying both the beauty and the drama of the finest polyphonic music of the Renaissance.strict requirements are the characteristics of cheap casio baby g replica watches under $57.cheap replica u boat watches chronograph quartz 50mm black dial mens u 42 sale.

Based in London, Stile Antico has appeared at many of the world’s most prestigious venues and festivals. The group enjoys a particularly close association with Wigmore Hall, and has performed at the BBC Proms, Buckingham Palace, Amsterdam Concertgebouw, the Palais des Beaux-Arts, Cité de la Musique, Luxembourg Philharmonie, and Leipzig Gewandhaus. Stile Antico is frequently invited to appear at Europe’s leading festivals: highlights include the Antwerp, Bruges, Utrecht and York Early Music Festivals, the Lucerne Easter Festival and the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival.

Since its 2009 North American debut at the Boston Early Music Festival, Stile Antico has enjoyed frequent tours to the US and Canada. The group performs regularly in Boston and New York, and has appeared at the Ravinia Festival, Washington’s National Cathedral and Library of Congress, Vancouver’s Chan Centre, and in concert series spanning twenty-five US states. Stile Antico has also appeared in Mexico and Colombia, and in 2018 visited East Asia for the first time, performing in Korea, Macau and Hong Kong.

Stile Antico’s performances are often praised for their immediacy, expressive commitment, and their sensitive and imaginative response to text. These qualities arise from the group’s collaborative working style: members rehearse and perform as chamber musicians, each contributing artistically to the musical results. The group is also noted for its compelling programming, which seeks to draw out thematic connections between works to shine new light on Renaissance music. In addition to its core repertoire, Stile Antico has premiered works by Joanna Marsh, John McCabe, Nico Muhly, Giles Swayne, and Huw Watkins. The group’s diverse range of collaborators includes Fretwork, the Folger Consort, Marino Formenti, B’Rock, Rihab Azar, and Sting.

Alongside its concert and recording work, Stile Antico is passionate about sharing its repertoire and working style with the widest possible audience, and its masterclasses and workshops are much in demand. As well as leading regular courses at the Dartington International Summer School, the group has been resident at Zenobia Música, and is often invited to work alongside ensembles at universities, festivals, and early music forums. The support of the charitable Stile Antico Foundation has enabled Stile Antico to expand its work in schools, to lead Youth Consort courses for students, and to offer bursaries to talented young professional singers and ensembles.

The COVID-19 pandemic saw Stile Antico throw its energies into digital projects, producing a ‘virtual choir’ recording of Tallis’ Spem in Alium, a music film to mark the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower voyage, and two series of lecture-recitals. The group also gave live-streamed concerts from Wigmore Hall and York Early Music Festival, created filmed recitals for Boston Early Music Festival, Live from London, St Martin-in-the-Fields and Laus Polyphoniae (Antwerp), and recorded and released its first recording for Decca Classics, marking 500 years since the death of Josquin. Stile Antico celebrated the return of live audiences by touring the UK with its new programme Toward the Dawn, and looks forward to visiting Belgium, Finland, France, Holland, Ireland, Spain and the US during the 2021-22 season.find great deals our site for rolex datejust ladies m279138rbr 0019 28mm silver dial president bracelet jubilee bracelet.ob rolex submariner 16613 rolex calibre 2813 mens hands and markers green dial raises the pure essentials of watchmaking to the level of art.

 

Many thanks to Tom Corran for making this performance possible.

 

Event Details

Date: September 16, 2021

Start time: 20:00

End time: 21:15

Venue: St Peter ad Vincula Church, Coggeshall

Directions: 4 Church Green, Coggeshall, Essex CO6 1UD

Email: boxoffice@romanrivermusic.org.uk

Back To Top