More Music from Edinburgh
A NUMBER of people have at various times felt and expressed dissatisfaction with the condition of music in English churches, Anglican or otherwise." Among the few who have done anything about it is a group of enthusiastic young singers, who, in 1944, under the direction of Michael Howard,
@ founded the Renaissance Society and set out to prove that the vocal and instrumental ~music of the golden ages of polyphony was not dry museum stuff. The part taken by the Renaissance Singers in the Edinburgh Festival this year will be heard from YCs on Tuesday, Octobér 23. One of the chief pieces in their programme of works by English and — Scottish composers is Taverner’s Mass, Small Devotion. Taverner’s church music for the Latin rite was one of the glories of the 16th century, and the Renaissance Singers first performed this Mass in 1948, which was _ probably the first time it had been heard for hundreds of years. Also included in the programme are some of the few extant works of
the Scottish composer Robert Carver, who was born in 1487, and a Motet by another Scottish composer, David Peebles, who died in 1579, and was thought to be one of the principal musicians in the land at that time. The Vienna Hofmusikkappelle, conducted by Josef Krips, will be heard
from YCs on Thursday in a Beethoven programme which includes the Fantasy for Piano, Chorus and Orchestra in C Minor, and the Mass in C Major. The Mass belongs to Beethoven’s great period of the Fifth and Sixth Symphonies and the Emperor Piano Concerto, and the Mass, although it has inevitably been overshadowed by its sublime companion, the D Major Mass, has many beauties and original touches of its own. On Sunday the Boston Symphony Orchestra will be heard-the first time an overseas orchestra has been broadcast in Festival programmes. It is notable for the first performance in Europe of a new work by Aaron Copland, Symphonic Ode, and also includes Beethoven’s Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D Major, and Schumann’s Symphony No. 2 in C Major.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 898, 19 October 1956, Page 9
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350More Music from Edinburgh New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 898, 19 October 1956, Page 9
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