Wednesday, 26 February 2025 at 7:30 pm
The Prince of Music
Keble Early Music Festival
Keble College Chapel, Oxford, United Kingdom
SP, Sunday Times (6th January, 2019)
The dozen voices of Stile Antico give achingly expressive performances of Elizabethan masterpieces, all informed by their composers’ Catholicism. Outstanding are Byrd’s Tristitia et anxietas and Quomodo cantabimus, and Robert Whyte’s Lamentations – but later pieces by the emigrés John Dowland, Peter Philips and Robert Dering make their mark. Huw Watkins’s recent work The Phoenix and the Turtle offers fine contrast.
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