The Clerks’ Group

The Clerks’ Group is a favorite a cappella singing ensemble dedicated generally to Medieval and Renaissance-era vocal works. It includes eight performers, but in early stages performed with only six. The number of most from the compositions the group performs spans in the eleventh hundred years to the finish of sixteenth hundred years, though there are always a few contemporary pieces which were commissioned for concert make use of. In the centre from the repertory are sacred functions by Ockeghem, Josquin Desprez, Obrecht, Machaut, Dufay, Dunstable, and various other composers of this era. Of the the ensemble provides selected the music from the Flemish contingent, specifically that of Ockeghem, as a spot of concentrate. The Clerks’ Group was produced at Oxford School in 1992 by choral conductor and baritone Edward Wickham, generally named among England’s most important choral music specialists. Wickham, who’s also a musicologist and critic, provides led not merely the Clerks’ Group over time, however the Orlando Chamber Choir aswell. From 1995 to 2005, he aimed the Renaissance Performers of London, an novice ensemble specialized in Renaissance-era vocal functions. The Clerks’ Group produced its debut in London in 1992 and soon established itself among the most important early music vocal ensembles prior to the public. Some recordings the Clerks’ designed for the United kingdom label ASV offering sacred music by Johannes Ockeghem received luxurious compliment from critics in Britain and overseas, and culminated within an essential discovery for the group with an early on Music Prize from Gramophone Newspaper in 1997. That same calendar year the Clerks’ embarked on an extremely effective tour of the uk and European countries (Germany, Holland, France, Belgium) executing the functions of Ockeghem to coincide using the composer’s quincentenary. In 1999 the group produced its NY debut at Corpus Christi Cathedral in an application of mainly Ockeghem and Josquin functions that drew high compliment from THE BRAND NEW York Situations. In 2003 the ensemble debuted at Royal Albert Hall for the Proms concert where it have scored a major achievement. That same calendar year it released its first Compact disc exclusively specialized in the sacred functions of Obrecht, and in 2005 continued tour in the U.K., Holland, and Belgium executing functions by that Flemish professional to tag the 500th wedding anniversary of his loss of life. By 2006, the Clerks’ Group acquired released over 20 recordings, mainly over the ASV label.