Vasari Singers
Vasari Singers launch new CD label
On 6th November, at a concert of this work in St Alban’s, Holborn, London, the Vasari Singers will launch their new CD label with a double CD recording of Jonathan Rathbone’s extraordinary a cappella work, ‘Under the shadow of His wing’. Commissioned by the Vasari Singers and first performed in […]
Five fabulous reviews for Vasari’s ‘De Profundis’ CD
Gramophone The thesis of this disc isn’t a new one but it is always a welcome approach and has been originally addressed. It couples two settings of three texts – the *De Profundis*, the *Miserere* and the Requiem – in contrasting pairs. The most startling contrast, surprisingly, does not involve […]
Under the shadow of His wing – Concert Review
Falls the eventide Posted: 14 Nov 2014 @ 00:18 Roderic Dunnett hears a work of 16 pieces IN ACHIEVING its prime aural intention – to be performed in “a large space with a matching acoustic”, using antiphonal effects so as to “wrap the audience in the acoustic experience” – Jonathan […]
[Video] De Profundis by Vasari Singers
Video preview of the new CD by London chamber choir Vasari Singers, directed by Jeremy Backhouse. Features Allegri and MacMillan’s settings of the Miserere, Malipiero and Pizzetti’s settings of De Profundis, and Puccini and Pizzetti’s Requiems CD to be released by Naxos in November 2014.
[Video] Rachmaninov Vespers – First, Third & Fifth Movements
Filmed during a live concert performance at Lincoln Cathedral Chaper House, April 2014. Movement 1 Movement 3 Movement 5
[Video] Songs of Farewell – My soul, there is a country
A performance of a movement from Hubert Parry’s Songs of Farewell – My Soul, there is a country, sung live in concert by the Vasari Singers directed by Jeremy Backhouse.
[Video] Parry – Songs of Farewell – Never weather beaten sail
A performance of a movement from Hubert Parry’s Songs of Farewell – Never weather beaten sail, sung live in concert by the Vasari Singers directed by Jeremy Backhouse.
[Video] Parry – Songs of Farewell – There is an old belief
Watch the London chamber choir Vasari Singers, directed by Jeremy Backhouse, perform “There is an old belief” from Hubert Parry’s Songs of Farewell, live in concert.