Content by tag "Chanticleer"

If You Can Only Have One Christmas Recording…

By C. MICHAEL BAILEY

This Holiday article is early and necessary. I am writing this rare stand-alone review of a Seasonal offering because I have a couple of bah-humbug friends who disrespect Christmas Music. I am giving them, and all other such music Philistines, their warranted comeuppance by introducing the only proof I have ever found for the existence of ...

Notable & Nearly Missed in 2013

By C. MICHAEL BAILEY

More music is released each year than can be realistically followed by a given writer. I typically listen to much more music than I write about, not because this music is not worthy somehow but there is so little time. So, this year, I am going to write a “Notable & Nearly Missed" column to catch ...

Christmas II: Two (Almost New) Chanticleer Christmas Offerings

By C. MICHAEL BAILEY

San Francisco's “Orchestra of Voices," Chanticleer have established themselves as America's premier all-male chorus. The group's repertoire spans 1500 years from anonymous plainchant to the group's tribute to the music of the big and small screen, Someone New (Chanticleer Records, 2013).

Tailor made for singing holiday classics, Chanticleer has established a robust track ...

Chorus Corner: Chanticleer, Cantus and Seraphic Fire

By C. MICHAEL BAILEY

Singers singing songs. Times are good for choral music when stalwart Chanticleer and relative newcomers Cantus and Seraphic Fire produce new music in such close proximity. Chanticleer releases a collection of concert highlights while Cantus expands the choral acreage on all four sides and Seraphic Fire looks backward with an instrumentally strip-down of an old favorite. ...

Chanticleer: An Orchestra of Voices Honoring Christmas

By C. MICHAEL BAILEY

cunctae res difficiles non potest eas homo explicare sermone non saturatur oculus visu nec auris impletur auditu quid est quod fuit ipsum quod futurum est quid est quod factum est ipsum quod fiendum est nihil sub sole novum nec valet quisquam dicere ecce hoc recens est iam enim praecessit in saeculis quae fuerunt ante nos.

Chanticleer with Bishop Yvette Flunder: How Sweet the Sound

By C. MICHAEL BAILEY

After establishing itself as the premiere a cappella vocal ensemble in the United States with specialization in early music, international folk music, the Great American Songbook, holiday music, and spirituals and traditional gospel music, Chanticleer returns to old ground. It is to this latter genre that Joseph Jennings and Chanticleer return with How Sweet The Sound--Spirituals ...

Chanticleer: A Portrait

By C. MICHAEL BAILEY

The all-male vocal orchestra Chanticleer is touted as "the only full-time classical vocal ensemble in the United States." The group is composed of 12 male voices: one bass, two baritones, three tenors, three altos, and three sopranos. They have earned a reputation for its crystalline a cappella interpretations of everything from Renaissance liturgical music to jazz ...

Chanticleer and the Handel & Haydn Society of Boston: John Tavener-Lamentations and Praises

By C. MICHAEL BAILEY

I suspect that this review is untimely with respect to the fact that John Tavener’s Lamentations and Praises, as performed by the all-Male Chorus Chanticleer with orchestral support by the Handel and Haydn Society, won two Grammy® Awards on February 23, 2003. The two awards captured were for the Classical Best Small Ensemble Performance and the ...

Chanticleer: Our American Journey

By C. MICHAEL BAILEY

...when I get home to that bright land!

Our American Journey is an intersection of multiple musical directions that the all-male choral group Chanticleer has been exploring for the past 20 years. Thematically, Our American Journey is a pan-continuation of several previous releases. The disc can be conveniently divided up according to the groups past and ...