Tonus Peregrinus

Tonus Peregrinus is a vocal outfit comprising a primary of twelve performers and a conductor. The vocalists sing a cappella, supplying a repertory that’s wide but generally concentrating on the first and the present day; that’s, on Medieval and Renaissance-era, aswell as on twentieth and twenty 1st century functions. The group’s recordings possess appeared around the Naxos and Hyperion brands. Tonus Peregrinus was founded at New University, Oxford University or college, in 1990 by composer and musician Antony Pitts, a college student at the faculty. He offers led the group since its founding and created many functions performed and documented from the ensemble, like the antiphon O Knowledge of God (1991), The Lord’s Prayer (1997), and several hymns and choral functions. In 2006, the eight performers had been sopranos Joanna Forbes and Rebecca Hickey, altos Kathryn Oswald and Alexander L’Estrange, tenors Benjamin Rayfield and Alexander Hickey, and basses Francis Brett and Nick Blossom. The group offers performed a restricted routine of concerts over time and each one of the users has managed effective performing and teaching professions aside from their function in the ensemble. The name Tonus Peregrinus was produced from a historical psalm tone found in the first Christian church, thought to possess a Jewish liturgical resource. It really is conjectured that melody might have been sung by Christ as well as the Apostles on the Last Supper. In the 1990s Tonus Peregrinus toured the U.K. and sometimes made an appearance on radio broadcasts, generally ending up in achievement from both critics and viewers. But they didn’t attract a substantial international following before release of the Compact disc in 2000 (obtainable from Hyperion Information) including Antony Pitts’ 1998 function Seven Letters, aswell as several smaller sized parts by Pitts. Following its achievement the group was agreed upon by Naxos, and its own initial effort for your label, the 2003 documenting of Pärt’s Passio, was presented with a Cannes Classical Prize in 2004. In addition, it became a best-seller, topping the BBC Music Mag graph. Thereafter, Tonus Peregrinus proved a string of well-known recordings on Naxos, like the Naxos Reserve of Carols (2004) as well as the 2006 problem of Adam de la Halle’s Le jeu de Robin et de Marion. The ensemble’s 2006 concert plan included an appearance on the initial English Music Celebration in Oxfordshire, Britain, in October, to execute works through the Eton Choirbook.