27 Oct, 2013 - Recordings
[one_third][/one_third][two_third_last] Our second live performance CD on the Sunstone label featuring 20th century masterpieces of Benjamin Britten, Francis Poulenc, Zoltan Kodaly and William Schuman. [button link=”https://app.etapestry.com/hosted/CantateChamberSingers/OnlineDonation.html” size=”small” target=”_blank” icon=”” color=”blue” lightbox=”false”]Purchase[/button] [/two_third_last]
27 Oct, 2013 - Recordings
[one_third][/one_third][two_third_last] Release date: September 2011 Maurice Saylor’s playfully brilliant setting of Lewis Carroll’s poem: “The Hunting of the Snark: An Agony in Eight Fits” Gisele Becker conducts Cantate, the Snark Ensemble, and the Lower School Chorus of the Holton-Arms School. The Washington Post calls it “irresistible from start to finish!” [button link=”http://www.amazon.com/Saylor-Hunting-Snark-Gisele-Becker/dp/B005IKYZKS/ref=sr_1_2?s=dmusic&ie=UTF8&sr=1-2&keywords=Hunting+of+the+snark” size=”small” target=”_blank” icon=”shopping-cart” […]
27 Oct, 2013 - Recordings
[one_third][/one_third][two_third_last] Release date: July 2012 Andrew Earle Simpson’s visionary wedding oratorio celebrates love across history and world traditions. Gisèle Becker leads Cantate and chamber ensemble, soprano Lisa Edwards-Burrs, tenor Joseph Dietrich, and the Maryland State Boychoir (Stephen Holmes, music director). Paired with Alfred Schnittke’s haunting and rarely recorded Requiem. [button link=”https://app.etapestry.com/hosted/CantateChamberSingers/OnlineDonation.html” size=”small” target=”_blank” icon=”” color=”blue” […]
27 Oct, 2013 - Recordings
[one_third][/one_third][two_third_last]A BRITTEN HOLIDAY spotlights seasonal gems from the composer’s lesser-known repertoire. Highlights include the stunning Chorale after an Old French Carol and Christ’s Nativity, written when Britten was a student, a year before the appearance of his choral theme and variations A Boy was Born. Eric Plutz, acclaimed University Organist at Princeton and former Cantate keyboard […]
13 Oct, 2013 - 2013-2014,2013-2014 Concerts,Concerts
Cantate concludes its year-long focus on Benjamin Britten with a festive look at the composer’s era through the lens of his correspondence with musical contemporaries. On the program will be works by Francis Poulenc, Dmitri Shostakovich, Imogen Holst, Aaron Copland, Percy Grainger, and Lennox Berkeley. Excerpts from letters they exchanged with Britten will also be […]
12 Oct, 2013 - 2013-2014,2013-2014 Concerts,Concerts
Our second concert, A Britten Holiday, features the seasonal favorite A Ceremony of Carols and gems from the lesser-known Britten repertoire explored on Cantate’s new CD A Britten Holiday, recently recorded at Church of the Epiphany in Washington, D.C.; highlights from both the concert and CD include Chorale After an Old French Carol and the fascinating Christ’s Nativity, written when […]
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