Word: antiqua
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From the Pro Musica Antiqua...
KING HENRY VIII not only had six wives but he was also an enthusiastic composer. One of his love songs appropriately titled Helas, Madame, will be performed in New York this week by a group known as Pro Musica Antiqua. The royal composer is only one of hundreds from Albeniz to Zandonai whose works are heard in New York every season in dozens of little halls and auditoriums far from Carnegie Hall and the Met. There out-of-the-way music groups, both amateur and professional, are giving Manhattan the kind of musical excitement that the booming off-Broadway theater...
Byrd: The Four& Five-Part Masses (Pro Musica Antiqua conducted by Safford Cape; EMS). These two Masses for solo voices were composed during the Reformation in England, when Roman Catholic services were forbidden. The music is a fine sample of Byrd's mastery of counterpoint and his heartfelt devotion. It is sympathetically sung by Belgian specialists in fine music of bygone days...
Spanish Music (Pro Musica Antiqua conducted by Safford Cape; EMS). Nineteen selections from the court music of the days of Ferdinand and Isabella, sung in fine style and played on old instruments (recorder, lute, viols...
Other noteworthy new records: four of Handel's works for Ancient Instruments and Soprano, with Valarie Lamoree and the Pro Musica Antiqua of New York (Esoteric); Haydn's Seasons, with the RIAS Symphony, choirs and soloists conducted by Ferenc Fricsay (Decca. 3 LPs); seven evocations Of Gods and Demons, sung by Bass-Baritone George London (Columbia); Scriabin's Poem of Ecstasy, played by the Paris Philharmonic Orchestra under Manuel Rosenthal (Capitol); Howard Swanson's Short Symphony, Franz Litschauer conducting the Vienna State Opera Orchestra (Vanguard); music by Rossini, Cambini and Bonporti, played by the Virtuosi...