Sacred Music

The technique of tone painting goes as far back as the history of music. Even in the time of Gregorian chants, singers used little musical patterns to depict specific emotions and ...

This latest disc from The Marian Consort and director Rory McCleery (on Delphian), “In Sorrow's Footsteps,” compares and contrasts old and modern ...

The Polish composer Pawel Lukaszewski is 50 this year, and, in celebration, the Tenebrae choir and its director Nigel Short released ...

It sometimes seems as if London might have a finite pool of professional singers, with familiar faces cropping ...

Reverend Jonathan Arnold, dean of divinity at Magdalen College, Oxford, has written about the “seeming paradox that, in today’s so-called ...

For a contemporary listener, the medieval styles sound very unusual, even modern, since most of our classical concepts ...

NEW YORK—As part of its White Light Festival, Lincoln Center has brought one of the world's most renowned ...