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George Frideric Handel “Let rolling streams…” from Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne

This is just a particular joyful and catchy piece of Handel, which, once it gets into my head, is bound to be there for a while. I first learned it as part of a program of Handel and Purcell Odes at American Bach Soloists about eight years agoand had the pleasure of performing it with […]

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Robert Wylkynson: “Salve regina”

In Robert Wylkynson’s “Salve regina” from the Eton Choirbook we find a brilliant example of the English love of extravagant sonority, here with a rich nine-voice texture spanning soaring trebles to plummeting basses. And the alternation of intricately figured, more intimate scorings with the full texture gives a very satisfying and dynamic contour to the

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