Today we get to chat a bit about Renaissance Christmas music and the 2024 Canadian Renaissance Music Summer School, with the director Greg Skidmore. Greg sings in a number of professional chamber choir ensembles throughout the UK and elsewhere.

The CRMSS fundariser, "Buy a Bar" can be found here.

For CRMSS Registration information, please visit their website.

Featuring a performance of Thomas Tallis's 40-voice metet, Spem in Alium, performed by I Fagiolini, found on YouTube. 

We get an exclusive sneak peak at some tracks on the upcoming album Penitence & Lamentations by the Byrd Ensemble, conducted by Markdavin Obenza. We sit down with Markdavin and have a conversation about several of the tracks on the upcoming record, which comes out Friday, November 3, 2023, including a new commission by Nico Muhly.

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Today we get an exclusive look into the upcoming album of Josquin's music with Dr. Jesse Rodin, a professor at Stanford University and Artistic Director/Conductor of Cut Circle. This album is the group's first installment of what will be a series of albums on Josquin's music. Dr. Rodin's research on Josquin has lead to some significant discoveries/conclusions regarding attribution of work and the "Josquin canon".

You can follow Cut Circle on social media:
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Purchase their new album here on November 3, 2023:
Musique en Wallonie

Stream album on Apple Music and Spotify on November 3, 2023

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A great pleasure to have I Fagiolini Director Robert Hollingworth along with Baritone Greg Skidmore for an exclusive interview about I Fagiolini's upcoming album "Missa Tu Es Petrus", featuring the previously unrecorded work of the same title by 17th Century Italian Composer Orazio Benevoli. Go download on your favorite streaming service on October 6, 2023 (or the album is available for purchase. 

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For more information about the MA program at University of York, click here.

For more information about #SingtheScore, follow the link to watch on YouTube.

See what Greg is up to with his Canadian Renaissance Music Summer School (Which we will be having an episode about coming up) here.

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On today's episode, we walk through the concert program for Sound of Ages upcoming Evensong concert. As part of their Evensong concert series, the Autumnal Equinox Evensong theme is opposites and gratitude. There are only a few tickets left so don't miss out, get your tickets here.

Dr. Andrew Huberman podcast episode about gratitude.

Tenebrae performing Part I of Ne Irascaris, Domine by William Byrd.
Tenebrae's website. Check out all their recordings here.
Sansara's live recording of Hubert Parry's I Know My Soul Hath Power.
The Tallis Scholars performing Part II of Ne Irascaris, Domine.

Here is a link to the Byrd score found on cpdl.org.

Check out all of Sound of Ages' upcoming events by visiting our website. 

Today we get to have a fantastic 'Improversation' if you will, with Dr.  Peter Schubert. 

Peter Schubert came to Montreal from New York City, where he founded and directed Opera Uptown and The New Calliope Singers, a group renowned for its commitment to modern music during its fifteen-year career. The group presented over fifty premieres and released a critically acclaimed CD entitled "New Cantatas and Madrigals."

Since 1991, he has conducted the highly respected Montreal-based group, The Orpheus Singers. Under his direction, the group has placed as a finalist several times the CBC Competition for Amateur Choruses, winning first prize in the chamber chorus category in 1996. The Orpheus Singers has presented premieres of several new Canadian works and participated in a CD of the musical compositions of Freidrich Nietzsche.

In 1998, Peter Schubert founded VivaVoce, a professional vocal ensemble, to stimulate interest in choral chamber music ranging from the Renaissance to the day before yesterday. By presenting unique, interactive "commentated concerts" in schools and concert halls, VivaVoce delights and entertains it audiences of all ages, instilling in them a deeper understanding of their musical heritage.

Schubert holds a Ph.D. in musicology from Columbia University, which gives him a rich base on which to draw for his commentated concerts. Currently an Associate Professor at the McGill University Faculty of Music, Schubert is the author of a groundbreaking and highly regarded textbook, Modal Counterpoint, Renaissance Style (Oxford University Press, 1999). With colleague Christoph Neidhoefer he also co-authored Baroque Counterpoint (Prentice-Hall, 2005).

Peter Schubert studied conducting with Nadia Boulanger, Helmuth Rilling, Jacques-Louis Monod and David Gilbert and has been assistant to Gregg Smith and Agnes Grossman. He has published an edition of Renaissance Noels as well as his own innovative arrangements of five popular Christmas carols with C.F. Peters.

Listen to Viva Voce's performance of Gombert's Domine, si tu es. 

Check out Dr. Schubert's YouTube channel to see recordings of ensembles he conducts, improvisation techniques, and more.

Here is a link to the Sistine Chapel recording as referenced in the interview.

Dr. Schubert's page on McGill University's faculty website. 

Today we get to have a fantastic conversation with Professor Megan Long of Oberlin College & Conservatory.

Megan Kaes Long studies European song traditions of the 16th and 17th centuries and the theoretical discourses that describe them. Her book, Hearing Homophony: Tonal Expectation at the Turn of the Seventeenth Century, was published by Oxford University Press in 2020 and won the Society for Music Theory's Wallace Berry Award in 2021.

Long’s articles have appeared in Music Theory Spectrum, the Journal of Music Theory, Music Theory Online, and Open Access Musicology and her research has been supported by grants from the American Council of Learned Societies and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Her 2018 article, “Cadential Syntax and Tonal Expectation in Late Sixteenth-Century Homophony” won the Society for Music Theory’s Emerging Scholar Award.

Long is the editor of SMT-V, the Society for Music Theory’s peer-reviewed video-journal. Long is also a mezzo-soprano who specializes in music of the Renaissance and Baroque eras.

Long's work was honored with Oberlin College & Conservatory's Excellence in Teaching Award for the 2021-22 academic year.

Check out the articles mentioned in the show by following the links below:

Your Brain On Hexichordal Solmization

Hexachordal Solmization and Syllable-Invariant Counterpoint in the Vocal Music of William Byrd

Rebecca Cypess's article on "thin notation": https://www.earlymusicamerica.org/web-articles/translation-and-the-ideas-of-early-music/ 

Recording of William Byrd's Come Woeful Orpheus by The Sixteen found on YouTube. 

Today we get a follow up conversation with Nigel Short where he walks us through Joby Talbot's Path of Miracles. The conversation is interspersed with audio clips from each movement.

Watch Tenebrae perform Path of Miracles live from La Basilique de Saint-Denis in France.

Tenebrae's album of Path of Miracles can be found on their website, Apple Music, Spotify, and wherever music is streamed.