Pro Cantione Antiqua

The 1960s were an interval when pioneering singers followed the lead of instrumentalists to make ensembles specialized in researching and performing the long-forgotten treasure of Western music composed prior to the time of Bach and Handel, and it had been in the center of that 10 years that three Uk music artists and scholars founded Pro Cantione Antiqua. These were tenor Adam Griffett, countertenor Paul Esswood, and conductor Tag Brown, joined up with by conductor and musicologist Bruno Turner. The objective right from the start was to help make the group an ensemble of soloists, in the feeling that each of them had professions as professional single performers. This mixture of power and beauty of every singer’s tone as well as the personality each member brings to his component is in charge of the particular quality from the PCA. Its principal period of emphasis may be the Renaissance period, the richest outpouring of polyphonic structure ever sold. Since polyphony can be an interplay of really self-employed lines, the personality of the performers on each component enhances the overall performance and helps guidebook the listener through the complicated part-writing. Gramophone journal published of its documenting of motets of Francisco de Peñalosa (ca. 1470-1528), “Cautious listening will educate you on very much about the substance of early sixteenth hundred years polyphony.” Furthermore to its Renaissance repertory, the PCA also sings huge amounts of Medieval music and, as several early music organizations have done, created a pastime in recent styles in modern music. PCA possess commissioned functions from composers including Sir Lennox Berkeley, Ian Parrott, Colin Mawby, and Ivan Moody, and frequently include other modern music on the applications. The PCA offers toured thoroughly through Europe, china and taiwan, and Latin America. They have produced over 80 Compact disc albums and received several major disk awards. Filmgoers possess heard it performing an Arthur Sullivan partsong, “The Very long Day time Closes,” as the name music of Terence Davies’ 1992 film. The group is becoming particularly from the Monteverdi 1601 Vespers through shows with the first music organizations the Orchestra and Choir from the Golden Age group and His Majesty’s Sagbutts and Cornettes. Aswell to be pioneers for the gratitude of Portuguese, Polish, Croatian, and Jewish polyphony, Pro Cantione Antiqua offers taken a specific desire for Iberian Renaissance music. In 1999 it participated in concerts in Madrid and Seville honoring the 400th wedding anniversary of the loss of life of Francisco Guerrero, and in 2000 artistically planned applications linking and contrasting the sixteenth hundred years music of Spain, Portugal, and Britain. The group is definitely comprised of the next soloists, all, of these prominent in recital and opera: Paul Esswood, Robin Tyson, Adam Bowman, Timothy Penrose, and Robert Harre Jones (countertenors), Adam Griffett, Ian Partridge, Joseph Cornwell, and Andrew Ruler (tenors), and Stephen Roberts, Michael George, Adrian Peacock, and David Beavan (basses/baritones).