is a 13-member a cappella choir based in London. These young, fresh-faced singers have already racked up some impressive awards for their recordings 鈥� mainly of intricately woven music from the Renaissance.
And that's just what the group has in store for this concert at St. Paul's Church in Cambridge, Mass. 鈥� hand-picked sacred music for the Christmas season from the English Tudor era, by 16th century composers such as and .
Stile Antico loves the luminous sound of complex vocal lines, and in a resonant space like St. Paul's, soprano Helen Ashby says it's especially glorious.
"It's actually a really lovely acoustic for this kind of music," Ashby says, "because it's a church which is designed for this sort of music. You can hear all the different parts, and it also has a big bloom around the sound which helps blend it all together."
There was a full house for this concert 鈥� the choir's U.S. debut 鈥� at the beautiful St. Paul's Church in Harvard Square. The Italian Romanesque-style building has bold and sweet acoustics, and voices reverberate off the shimmering yellow marble on the front altar.
It's fascinating to watch these young singers. They work without a conductor, so they watch each other closely, giving cues just with body language. When they stand in a semi-circle to sing, their voices take flight.
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Originally recorded in 2009.
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