Tag Archives: Stile Antico

The latest album from the celebrated English early music vocal ensemble Stile Antico, 'In a Strange Land: Elizabethan Composers in Exile,' is a beautiful sequence with works by John Dowland, William Byrd, and their contemporaries – and a decidedly melancholy affair.

Two new releases show the continuing vitality of music of centuries past.

Defying the Blizzard of 2016, the combined ensemble presented early and new music celebrating Shakespeare.

While the English choir applies a constant smooth tonality to its performances, these can still feel fresh, the centuries-old music almost as much as the recent.

Few Early Music groups have become as integral a part of the performance landscape as the British group Stile Antico.