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Next Concert
On The Other Handl
Music of the great Slovenian-Czech master Jacob Handl
- Missa super Adesto dolori meo
- Motets from Opus Musicum
Saturday, May 8, 8:00 p.m. at St. Mary Mother of God
Saturday, May 15, 8:00 p.m. at St. Bernadette
- Sometimes called "the Bohemian Palestrina", Handl was perhaps the greatest Renaissance master from Eastern Europe
- Revel in Handl's mastery of Renaissance styles from contrapuntal to polychoral to madrigalian chromaticism
- "acute stylistic awareness"
- "impelled by an exciting immediacy"
- "beautifully balanced, the textures clear and transparent and the texts inflected gracefully and naturally"
- "unfettered joy"
- ~ The Washington Post
- "extraordinary singing"
- "impeccable diction and intonation"
- "cleansingly pure in tone"
- ~ Ionarts Music
- "Chantry is one of the musical glories of Washington"
- "dazzling complexity"
- "an ocean of sound"
- ~ ALLARTSREVIEW4U