In A Strange Land, Elizabethan Composers in Exile – Stile Antico

Choir & Organ (May, 2019)
A group of Elizabethan musical exiles are recruited to a common cause for In a strange Land, a cunningly contrived programme from Stile Antico. Their vivid, compelling singing of music by Dowland, Byrd, Philips, Dering, de Monte, and White includes some revelations such as the heart- rending In this trembling shadow by Dowland and an intriguing modern madrigal, The Phoenix and the Turtle, by Huw Watkins. Their characteristic delicacy of ensemble is captured luminously in immediate recorded sound. Another renaissance composer collective is formed by Amarae morti, which finds Peter Phillips not with the Tallis Scholars but directing a choir of young Iberian voices, El León de Oro, in rarities by …