Stile Antico Spotlights: Extra Time: Recent Episodes
Stile Antico
This podcast accompanies our series of films, Spotlights, released in Spring 2021, shining a spotlight on four of our favourite pieces of music from the Renaissance. With the help of expert academic guests and musical illustrations, we explore the history and context of these works. In this podcast, we'll be digging a bit deeper with some extra material on the background to these wonderful pieces. View the series at www.vimeo.com/ondemand/spotlights.
Episode 1: Ramsey - How are the Mighty Fallen
Episode 2: Lobo - Versa est in luctum
Episode 3: Taverner - Ave dei Patris filia
Episode 4: Palestrina - Song of Songs
Find out more about Palestrina's life and work and the music which showcases his inimitable style, the stile antico, with our extra time podcast. Group members Cara Curran and Jonathan Hanley chat to Professor Simon Ditchfield, Professor of Early Modern History at the University of York. Watch the full film at www.vimeo.com/ondemand/spotlights.
Suggested further listening:
Song of Songs - Stile Antico
Palestrina Volumes 1-8 - The Sixteen
The Call of Rome - The Sixteen
Find out more about John Taverner's life and work and his masterpiece, 'Ave Dei Patris Filia' with our extra time podcast. Group members Emma Ashby and Will Dawes chat to Dr Stephen Darlington former director of Music at Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford and Emeritus Professor at the University of Oxford. Watch the full film at www.vimeo.com/ondemand/spotlights.
Suggested further listening:
The Phoenix Rising - Stile Antico
Media Vita - Stile Antico
Missa Gloria Tibi Trinitas - Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford
John Taverner - Imperatrix Inferni - Votive Antiphones - Alamire and David Skinner
Find out more about Lobo's beautiful 'Versa est in luctum', with our extra time podcast. Group members Helen Ashby and James Arthur chat to musicologist and conductor Owen Rees from the University of Oxford about Lobo and all things Spanish from the 'Siglo de Oro'. Watch the full film at www.vimeo.com/ondemand/spotlights.
Suggested further listening:
From the Imperial Court - Stile Antico
Music for Philip - Westminster Cathedral Choir
Alonso Lobo - King's College London
Music for Philip of Spain - Chapelle du Roi
Music from Renaissance Portugal - Taverner Cambridge Choir, Owen Rees
Delve deeper into Robert Ramsey's masterpiece 'How are the mighty fallen', with our extra time podcast. Group members Andrew Griffiths and Kate Ashby chat to historian and Jacobean specialist Dr Clare Jackson from the University of Cambridge. Watch the full film at www.vimeo.com/ondemand/spotlights.
Suggested listening:
Tune thy musicke to thy hart, Stile Antico
Dialogues of Sorrow, Gallicantus
Ramsey Choral Music, Magnificat
Poetry in Music, The Sixteen