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Stile Antico, The Cardinall s Musick, Wigmore Hall online review – lightening our darkness
The rapt beauty of a Renaissance Christmas pierces the gloom
by Boyd TonkinTuesday, 22 December 2020
Circle of light: Stile AnticoWigmore Hall
Suitably enough, this year’s musical Christmas arrived at the Wigmore not in a dazzle of joyful light and bedecked with winter greenery, but with a lonely band of singers facing the gloom of an unlit, empty hall as fear and confusion multiplied outside. In both of yesterday’s concerts, the closing events of the venue’s defiant and courageous autumn season, a cappella choral music from the Renaissance ushered in a festival more austere than ecstatic.