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What makes a great vocal ensemble?

Alamire passes the test. [Listen after the jump.]

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Ensemble Links: Les Voix Baroques and Alamire

Vocal ensembles from Canada and England. [Read more after the jump.]

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Links: Alamire, Nicholas Mulroy, Helmut Rilling, and Le Poeme Harmonique

A ten-year project to record three centuries worth of early English choral music, a British tenor to sing Bach with the Jerusalem Baroque Orchestra, a distinguished German conductor receives the Karajan Music Prize, and a French ensemble performs in Istanbul. [Read more after the jump.]

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Links: Christoph Wolff at Juilliard, David Skinner on BBC Radio 3, and Music for Steelpan

A noted scholar to Juilliard faculty, director of ensemble Alamire interviewed, and the steelpan/J.S. Bach connection. [Read more after the jump.]

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David Skinner Answers Your Questions

Guest blogging for composer Eric Whitacre, the director of the British vocal ensemble Alamire fields questions about “early music, the English choral tradition, Cambridge,” or anything related. [Read more after the jump.]

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Video: Alamire Performs John Taverner

An excerpt from the motet “Dum transisset sabbatum.” [Watch after the jump.]

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