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Ex Cathedra

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Ex Cathedra is a leading British choir and early music ensemble based in Birmingham in the West Midlands, England. [1]

82 relations: Alec Roth, Antonio Vivaldi, Artistic director (music), ASV Records, Barbican Centre, Baroque music, BBC, Belgium, Benjamin Britten, Birmingham, Birmingham Children's Hospital, Birmingham Opera Company, Birmingham Oratory, Birmingham Post, Birmingham Royal Ballet, Birmingham Town Hall, Birmingham Women's NHS Foundation Trust, Choir, Church Times, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Claudio Monteverdi, Concerto Palatino, Conducting, Copyright, Court of Appeal (England and Wales), Coventry, Derby, Early music, Edinburgh International Festival, England, Finland, France, Fretwork (music group), Germany, Giovanni Gabrieli, Goldberg Magazine, Government of the United Kingdom, Hereford Cathedral, His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts, Hyperion Records, Israel, Italy, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Jeffrey Skidmore, Johann Sebastian Bach, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Ladywood, Latin America, List of early music ensembles, List of period instruments, ..., London, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Martin Peerson, Mass in B minor, Master class, Michel Richard Delalande, Musical ensemble, New York (state), Orchestra, Orlande de Lassus, Perry Common, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Shakespeare Institute, Signum Records, Sing Up, Singing, Sir Christèmas, Solo (music), Southwell Minster, Spain, Spitalfields Music, Symphony Hall, Birmingham, The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, The Independent, The Proms, The Tallis Scholars, Three Choirs Festival, United Kingdom, West Midlands (county), York Early Music Festival. Expand index (32 more) »

Alec Roth

Alec Roth (born 1 February 1948) is an English composer.

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Antonio Vivaldi

Antonio Lucio Vivaldi (4 March 1678 – 28 July 1741) was an Italian Baroque musical composer, virtuoso violinist, teacher and cleric.

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Artistic director (music)

An artistic director may refer to someone who directs a musical ensemble, and in this medium, is often abbreviated as simply Director.

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ASV Records

ASV Records was a London-based record label set up by Harley Usill, founder of Argo Records, Decca producer and former Argo general manager, Kevin Daly, and producer Jack Boyce, after Argo's parent company Decca was bought by PolyGram in 1980.

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Barbican Centre

The Barbican Centre is a performing arts centre in the Barbican Estate of the City of London and the largest of its kind in Europe.

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Baroque music

Baroque music is a style of Western art music composed from approximately 1600 to 1750.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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Belgium

Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Western Europe bordered by France, the Netherlands, Germany and Luxembourg.

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Benjamin Britten

Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten of Aldeburgh (22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976) was an English composer, conductor and pianist.

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Birmingham

Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England, with an estimated population of 1,101,360, making it the second most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Birmingham Children's Hospital

Birmingham Children's Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, ran Birmingham Children's Hospital, a children's hospital located in Birmingham, England.

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Birmingham Opera Company

Birmingham Opera Company is a professional opera company based in Birmingham, England, that specialises in innovative and avant-garde productions of the operatic repertoire, often in unusual venues.

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Birmingham Oratory

The Birmingham Oratory is an English Catholic religious community of the Congregation of the Oratory of St.

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Birmingham Post

The Birmingham Post is a weekly printed newspaper based in Birmingham, England, with a circulation of 6,667 and distribution throughout the West Midlands. First published under the name the Birmingham Daily Post in 1857, it has had a succession of distinguished editors and has played an influential role in the life and politics of the city.

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Birmingham Royal Ballet

Birmingham Royal Ballet (BRB) is one of the three major ballet companies of the United Kingdom, alongside The Royal Ballet and the English National Ballet.

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Birmingham Town Hall

Birmingham Town Hall is a Grade I listed concert hall and venue for popular assemblies opened in 1834 and situated in Victoria Square, Birmingham, England.

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Birmingham Women's NHS Foundation Trust

Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust ran Birmingham Women's Hospital in the Edgbaston area of Birmingham, situated very close to the University of Birmingham.

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Choir

A choir (also known as a quire, chorale or chorus) is a musical ensemble of singers.

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Church Times

The Church Times is an independent Anglican weekly newspaper based in London and published in the United Kingdom on Fridays.

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City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (CBSO) is a British orchestra based in Birmingham, England.

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Claudio Monteverdi

Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi (15 May 1567 (baptized) – 29 November 1643) was an Italian composer, string player and choirmaster.

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Concerto Palatino

The Concerto Palatino was a wind ensemble and important civic institution in Bologna associated with San Petronio.

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Conducting

Conducting is the art of directing a musical performance, such as an orchestral or choral concert.

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Copyright

Copyright is a legal right, existing globally in many countries, that basically grants the creator of an original work exclusive rights to determine and decide whether, and under what conditions, this original work may be used by others.

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Court of Appeal (England and Wales)

The Court of Appeal (COA, formally "Her Majesty's Court of Appeal in England") is the highest court within the Senior Courts of England and Wales, and second only to the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.

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Coventry

Coventry is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England.

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Derby

Derby is a city and unitary authority area in Derbyshire, England.

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Early music

Early music generally comprises Medieval music (500–1400) and Renaissance music (1400–1600), but can also include Baroque music (1600–1760).

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Edinburgh International Festival

The Edinburgh International Festival is an annual festival of performing arts in Edinburgh, Scotland, over three weeks in August.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Finland

Finland (Suomi; Finland), officially the Republic of Finland is a country in Northern Europe bordering the Baltic Sea, Gulf of Bothnia, and Gulf of Finland, between Norway to the north, Sweden to the northwest, and Russia to the east.

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France

France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.

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Fretwork (music group)

Fretwork is a consort of viols based in England, United Kingdom.

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Germany

Germany (Deutschland), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland), is a sovereign state in central-western Europe.

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Giovanni Gabrieli

Giovanni Gabrieli (c. 1554/1557 – 12 August 1612) was an Italian composer and organist.

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Goldberg Magazine

Goldberg Magazine was a Spanish-based bimonthly magazine devoted to early music and Baroque music.

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Government of the United Kingdom

The Government of the United Kingdom, formally referred to as Her Majesty's Government, is the central government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

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Hereford Cathedral

The current Hereford Cathedral, located at Hereford in England, dates from 1079.

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His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts

His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts (HMSC) is a British early music group founded in 1982.

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Hyperion Records

Hyperion Records is an independent British classical record label.

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Israel

Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Middle East, on the southeastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea and the northern shore of the Red Sea.

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Italy

Italy (Italia), officially the Italian Republic (Repubblica Italiana), is a sovereign state in Europe.

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Jean-Philippe Rameau

Jean-Philippe Rameau (–) was one of the most important French composers and music theorists of the 18th century.

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Jeffrey Skidmore

Jeffrey Skidmore OBE (born 27 February 1951) is the conductor and artistic director of Ex Cathedra, a choir and early music ensemble based in Birmingham in the West Midlands, England.

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Johann Sebastian Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach (28 July 1750) was a composer and musician of the Baroque period, born in the Duchy of Saxe-Eisenach.

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Karlheinz Stockhausen

Karlheinz Stockhausen (22 August 1928 – 5 December 2007) was a German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important but also controversial composers of the 20th and early 21st centuries.

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Ladywood

Ladywood is an inner-city district next to central Birmingham.

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Latin America

Latin America is a group of countries and dependencies in the Western Hemisphere where Spanish, French and Portuguese are spoken; it is broader than the terms Ibero-America or Hispanic America.

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List of early music ensembles

An early music ensemble is a musical ensemble that specializes in performing early music of the European classical tradition from the Baroque era and earlier — broadly, music produced before about 1750.

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List of period instruments

In the historically informed performance movement, musicians perform classical music using restored or replicated versions of the instruments for which it was originally written.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Marc-Antoine Charpentier

Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643 – 24 February 1704) was a French composer of the Baroque era.

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Martin Peerson

Martin Peerson (or Pearson, Pierson) (born between 1571 and 1573; died December 1650 or January 1651 and buried 16 January 1651) was an English composer, organist and virginalist.

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Mass in B minor

The Mass in B minor (BWV 232) by Johann Sebastian Bach is a musical setting of the complete Ordinary of the Latin Mass.

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Master class

A master class is a class given to students of a particular discipline by an expert of that discipline — usually music, but also painting, drama, any of the arts, or on any other occasion where skills are being developed.

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Michel Richard Delalande

Michel Richard Delalande (15 December 1657 – 18 June 1726) was a French Baroque composer and organist who was in the service of King Louis XIV.

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Musical ensemble

A musical ensemble, also known as a music group or musical group, is a group of people who perform instrumental or vocal music, with the ensemble typically known by a distinct name.

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New York (state)

New York is a state in the northeastern United States.

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Orchestra

An orchestra is a large instrumental ensemble typical of classical music, which mixes instruments from different families, including bowed string instruments such as violin, viola, cello and double bass, as well as brass, woodwinds, and percussion instruments, each grouped in sections.

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Orlande de Lassus

Orlande de Lassus (also Roland de Lassus, Orlando di Lasso, Orlandus Lassus, Orlande de Lattre or Roland de Lattre; 1532, possibly 1530 – 14 June 1594) was a Netherlandish or Franco-Flemish composer of the late Renaissance.

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Perry Common

Perry Common is an area of north Birmingham that includes parts of both Stockland Green and Kingstanding.

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Royal Birmingham Conservatoire

The Royal Birmingham Conservatoire is a music school, drama school and concert venue in Birmingham, England.

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Shakespeare Birthplace Trust

The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust (SBT) is an independent registered educational charity based in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England, that came into existence in 1847 following the purchase of William Shakespeare's birthplace for preservation as a national memorial.

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Shakespeare Institute

The Shakespeare Institute is a centre for postgraduate study dedicated to the study of William Shakespeare and the literature of the English Renaissance.

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Signum Records

Signum Records, also known as Signum Classics, is a classical musical record label in the UK founded in 1997 around a then-ambitious project to make the first complete recording of the works of Thomas Tallis.

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Sing Up

In 2007 the then Department for Education and Skills announced a 10 million investment in a national singing programme responding to the recommendations of the Music Manifesto.

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Singing

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques.

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Sir Christèmas

"Sir Christèmas" is a traditional British Christmas carol.

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Solo (music)

In music, a solo (from the solo, meaning alone) is a piece or a section of a piece played or sung featuring a single performer, who may be performing completely alone or supported by an accompanying instrument such as a piano or organ, a continuo group (in Baroque music), or the rest of a choir, orchestra, band, or other ensemble.

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Southwell Minster

Southwell Minster is a minster and cathedral, in Southwell, Nottinghamshire, England.

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Spain

Spain (España), officially the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España), is a sovereign state mostly located on the Iberian Peninsula in Europe.

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Spitalfields Music

Spitalfields Music (previously known as Spitalfields Festival, officially registered as Spitalfields Festival Ltd) is a music charity based in the Spitalfields area of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

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Symphony Hall, Birmingham

Symphony Hall is a 2,262 seat concert venue in Birmingham, England.

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The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph, commonly referred to simply as The Telegraph, is a national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed across the United Kingdom and internationally.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Independent

The Independent is a British online newspaper.

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The Proms

The Proms is an eight-week summer season of daily orchestral classical music concerts and other events held annually, predominantly in the Royal Albert Hall in central London.

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The Tallis Scholars

The Tallis Scholars is a British professional early music vocal ensemble normally consisting of two singers per part, with a core group of ten singers.

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Three Choirs Festival

Worcester cathedral Gloucester cathedral The Three Choirs Festival is a music festival held annually at the end of July, rotating among the cathedrals of the Three Counties (Hereford, Gloucester and Worcester) and originally featuring their three choirs, which remain central to the week-long programme.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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West Midlands (county)

The West Midlands is a metropolitan county and city region in western-central England with a 2014 estimated population of 2,808,356, making it the second most populous county in England.

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York Early Music Festival

The York Early Music Festival is an English arts festival devoted mainly to classical music from the 18th century and earlier.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex_Cathedra

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