To install click the Add extension button. That's it.

The source code for the WIKI 2 extension is being checked by specialists of the Mozilla Foundation, Google, and Apple. You could also do it yourself at any point in time.

How to transfigure the Wikipedia

Would you like Wikipedia to always look as professional and up-to-date? We have created a browser extension. It will enhance any encyclopedic page you visit with the magic of the WIKI 2 technology.

Try it — you can delete it anytime.

Install in 5 seconds
4,5
Kelly Slayton
Congratulations on this excellent venture… what a great idea!
Alexander Grigorievskiy
I use WIKI 2 every day and almost forgot how the original Wikipedia looks like.
Live Statistics
English Articles
Improved in 24 Hours
Added in 24 Hours
What we do. Every page goes through several hundred of perfecting techniques; in live mode. Quite the same Wikipedia. Just better.
Great Wikipedia has got greater.
.
Leo
Newton
Brights
Milds

Hilliard Ensemble

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Hilliard Ensemble
OriginLondon, England
Genres
Years active1973-2014
Labels
Past members

Hilliard Ensemble was a British male vocal quartet originally devoted to the performance of early music. The group was named after the Elizabethan miniaturist painter Nicholas Hilliard. Founded in 1974,[1] the group disbanded in 2014.[2]

Although most of its work focused on music of the Medieval and Renaissance periods, the Hilliard Ensemble also performed contemporary music, working frequently with the Estonian composer Arvo Pärt and included in its concerts works by John Cage, Gavin Bryars, Giya Kancheli, and Heinz Holliger.

YouTube Encyclopedic

  • 1/5
    Views:
    148 103
    228 310
    190 077
    79 574
    13 546
  • Hilliard Ensemble - Renaissance Madrigals
  • Josquin Desprez - Motets & Chansons - The Hilliard Ensemble
  • Heinrich Schutz: Schwanengesang - Hilliard Ensemble
  • Johannes Ockeghem - Missa Prolationum & Marian motets - The Hilliard Ensemble
  • Orlande de Lassus - Miserere Mei Deus (Hilliard Ensemble)

Transcription

History

A self-portrait by Nicholas Hilliard (1577)

Membership

The group was founded by Paul Hillier, Errol Girdlestone, Paul Elliott, and David James, although the membership was flexible until Hillier left in 1990. After that, the core members were David James (counter-tenor), Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor/high tenor), John Potter (tenor), and Gordon Jones (bass), except that in 1998 John Potter was replaced by Steven Harrold.

Recordings

The Hilliard Ensemble, under Paul Hillier, had an extensive discography with EMI's Reflexe early music series during the 1980s. The ensemble then recorded mainly for the ECM label. In 1994, when popular interest in Gregorian chant was at its height, the ensemble released the CD Officium, an unprecedented collaboration with the Norwegian saxophonist Jan Garbarek. The disc became one of ECM's biggest-selling releases, reaching the pop charts in several European countries and receiving five gold discs in sales. Officium's sequel, the 2-CD set Mnemosyne, followed in 1999. The third album, Officium Novum, was released in 2010.[3][4] Their recordings have also been included in Craig Wright's Listening to Music textbook for music students and music appreciation.

Performances

In 2005 the ensemble took part in the Rheingau Musik Festival's composer's portrait of Arvo Pärt, together with the Rostock Motet Choir.[5] In 2008 the Hilliard Ensemble premiered Heiner Goebbels' avant-garde staged concert I went to the house but did not enter at the 2008 Edinburgh International Festival, repeated at the Berliner Festspiele.[6]

New music

In 2009 the ensemble premiered five new works: Guido Morini's Una Iliade, Fabio Vacchi's Memoria Italiana, Steffen Schleiermacher's Die Beschwörung der Trunkenen Oase, Simon Bainbridge's Tenebrae and Wolfgang Rihm's Et Lux. In September 2010 the Hilliard Ensemble joined the London Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra for the world premiere of Matteo D'Amico's Flight from Byzantium at the Royal Festival Hall, London.

Miscellaneous

They also performed three pieces by Guillaume Dufay: Moribus et genere, Vergene bella and Lamentatio sanctae matris ecclesiae Constantinopolitanae.[7]

On 15 November 2010, the group appeared at Church of St. Paul the Apostle in New York to perform Kjartan Sveinsson's Cage a Swallow Can’t You but You Can’t Swallow a Cage.[8]

Disbanding

The Hilliard Ensemble decided to disband after 41 years and gave their final concert on 20 December 2014 at the Wigmore Hall, London.[2][9]

Selected discography

Harmonia Mundi

  • 1982: Cipriano de Rore: Le Vergine (LP, HM 1107)
  • 1982: Medieval English Music (HMC 901106)
  • 1983: Sumer is icumen in (HMC 901154)
  • 1983: The Singing Club (HMC 901153)

EMI Reflexe

  • 1980: Lionel Power: Messen und Motetten (LP, EMI Reflexe 1C 069-46 402)
  • 1982: John Dunstable: Motets (EMI Reflexe CDC 7 49002 2)
  • 1983: Josquin Desprez: Motets and chansons (EMI Reflexe CDC 7 49209 2)
  • 1983: Schütz: Matthäus-Passion (EMI Reflexe CDC 7 49200 2)
  • 1984: J. S. Bach Motets (EMI Reflexe CDC 7 49204 2) with Knabenchor Hannover
  • 1984: Ockeghem: Requiem; Missa Mi-Mi (EMI Reflexe CDC 7 49213 2)
  • 1984: Palestrina: Canticum canticorum, Spiritual madrigals (EMI Reflexe CDS 7 49010 8)
  • 1985: Schütz: Schwanengesang (Opus ultimum) (EMI Reflexe CDS 7 49214 8) with London Baroque and Knabenchor Hannover
  • 1985: Lassus: Penitential Psalms (EMI Reflexe CDS 7 49211 8) with the Kees Boeke Consort
  • 1986: Dufay: Missa L'Homme armé, Motets (EMI Reflexe CDC 7 47628 2)
  • 1987: Draw on Sweet Night - English Madrigals (EMI Reflexe CDC 7 49197 2)
  • 1988: Ockeghem: Missa prolationum and Marian Motets (EMI Reflexe CDC 7 49798 2)
  • 1989: Josquin Desprez: Missa Hercules Dux Ferrariae (EMI Reflexe CDC 7 49960 2)

Coro

  • 1996: Perotin and the Ars Antiqua (HL 1001)
  • 1996: For Ockeghem (HL 1002) music by Ockeghem, Busnois and Lupi and translated excerpts from Lament on the Death of the Late Ockeghem by Guillaume Crétin
  • 1997: Antoine Brumel (HL 1003)
  • 1998: Guillaume Dufay - Missa Se la Face ay Pale (HL 1004)

ECM

Other labels

  • 1983: Madrigals by Luca Marenzio (University of East Anglia Recordings UEA 82126)
  • 1988: Music from the time of Christian IV. Church Music at Court and in Town (BIS CD-389)
  • 1990: The Romantic Englishman (Meridian Records DUOCD 89009)
  • 1996: Sweet Love, Sweet Hope (Isis Records CD030)
  • 1997: Cristóbal de Morales: Missa Mille Regretz (Almaviva DS-0101)
  • 2013: Prayers and Praise. Vocal music by Alexander Raskatov (Challenge Classics CC72578)
  • 2016: Roger Marsh: Poor Yorick (CMRC001)
  • 2017: Trans Limen ad Lumen (Divox CDX-21702)
  • 2019: John Casken: The Dream of the Rood (NMC Recordings NMC D245) with Asko/Schönberg

References

  1. ^ The Hilliard Ensemble biography by Timothy Dickey, discography and album reviews, credits & releases at AllMusic
  2. ^ a b Church, Michael (2014). "Hilliard Ensemble, Wigmore Hall". The Independent. Retrieved 13 May 2015.[dead link]
  3. ^ Jan Garbarek / The Hilliard Ensemble / Officium Novum Archived 21 September 2010 at the Wayback Machine ECM
  4. ^ John Eyles: Will please both jazz aficionados and followers of choral music BBC 28 September 2010
  5. ^ Rostocker Motettenchor (in German)
  6. ^ Heiner Goebbels mit dem Hilliard Ensemble Die Welt 19 November 2008 (in German)
  7. ^ London Philharmonic Orchestra / Jurowski / Haydn, D'Amico and Bartok wmnr.com
  8. ^ Steve Smith: To Boldly Go Beyond the Limits of Sacred Music New York Times 16 November 2010
  9. ^ Smith, Charlotte (19 September 2013). "The Hilliard Ensemble celebrate 40th anniversary year with reunion concert". Gramophone.

External links

This page was last edited on 22 March 2024, at 08:59
Basis of this page is in Wikipedia. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported License. Non-text media are available under their specified licenses. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. WIKI 2 is an independent company and has no affiliation with Wikimedia Foundation.
Contact WIKI 2
Introduction
Terms of Service
Privacy Policy