Gallicantus
Concerts
Thursday 15 December – Spitalfields Festival
We are taking to stage in St Leonard’s, Shoreditch church to perform our Dialogues of Sorrow programme, which commemorates the death of Prince Henry in 2012, and which is available on CD from Signum Records. Tickets and further information are available from the Spitalfields Festival website.
News
Saturday 4 June
Gallicantus performed The Word Unspoken in Sherborne School chapel.
Wednesday 16 February
Dialogues of Sorrow CD continues to impress
We are thrilled that plaudits for our Dialogues of Sorrow disc are still coming in from enthusiastic reviewers. MusicalCriticism.com have just posted a review, saying “… as an ensemble they achieve an almost telepathic blend… After their stunning first album of music by Robert White, this new disc clearly shows that Gallicantus are an ensemble of note.” Read the full review on their website.
Saturday 4 December
Early Music Today has made Dialogues of Sorrow their Editor’s Choice for 4th December 2010, and is also giving away 5 copies.
A perfect selection of the vast outpouring of grief in both sacred and secular music provoked by Prince Henry's death, lovingly and movingly performed.
Dialogues of Sorrow Recording
Our second recording is now available! Dialogues of Sorrow is a collection of seventeenth century music lamenting the untimely death of Prince Henry, son of James I. It is available from Signum Classics.
Sacred Music by Robert White Recording
Hymns, Psalms & Lamentations is a collection of Sacred Music by Robert White and is available from Signum Classics.
Literally meaning ‘rooster song’ or ‘cock crow’, Gallicantus takes its name from monastic antiquity for the office held just before dawn: a ceremony which evokes the renewal of life offered by the coming day. Dedicated to renaissance music and directed by Gabriel Crouch, the membership of this early music group boasts a wealth of experience in consort singing, drawn from groups such as Tenebrae, The Tallis Scholars, and The King’s Singers.
The group is bound by a shared love of communicating text, and creates performances which draw out unifying themes within apparently diverse repertoire: To this end they are as meticulous about providing context and insight for audiences as they are about crafting interpretations of the music they love.
Gallicantus released their first disc on Signum Classics in 2009, dedicated to the music of Robert White. Critics acclaimed an “impressive debut” (Observer) of “impassioned, exciting music” (The Times), whilst Gramophone Magazine declared: “What an outstanding disc… The opening of the Lamentations could stand as a kind of illuminated initial at the beginning of a gorgeous manuscript, so transparent and luminous is it”. 2010 sees the release of Dialogues of Sorrow – Passions on the Death of Prince Henry (1612), and a BBC radio programme featuring Gallicantus will also be broadcast in 2010 with historians Tristram Hunt and Roy Strong, and musicologist Sally Dunkley on the story of the music inspired by this most significant event.