Twelve-voice choir from England

Breaking the Habit: Music by and for Renaissance Women

The famous Stile Antico returns to Music Before 1800 offering a program dedicated to 16th-century women, both powerful queens and cloistered composers. The queens, Margaret of Austria, Mary I, and Elizabeth I, commissioned the works by John Taverner, Thomas Tallis, and William Byrd. The Italian women composers, Raffaella Allioti and Sulpita Cesis, were supported by their convents and saw their works published.

Post-concert Q and A

“Stile Antico was at its best, marshaling color, texture, and pacing to give shape to music that can otherwise seem gorgeous and inert. The Agnus Dei was one of the most beautiful things I have ever heard.” —The Boston Globe

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