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The Cantors of the Schola These young professional singers have a particular interest in Gregorian chant and other early music. They specialize in the reconstruction and performance of early as well as present-day liturgy, seeking to understand the evolution of musical style and practice. They were the first in the field to record a reconstruction of a complete festal service based on the tropes and organa of the Winchester Troper. Their repertoire includes a number of liturgical dramas, among them the tenth-century Visitatio from Winchester, the Ceremony of the Star, and a thirteenth-century Annunciation drama from Padua. The Cantors also sing full Latin sevices in Gregorian chant for weddings and funerals. Each year they sing the whole of the Holy Week services, and on the occasion of the Schola's Silver Jubilee Celebrations, they sang (together with the Associates) a reconstruction of Sarum Vespers in King's College Chapel, Cambridge. These Vespers, edited in 1519 by the Vice-Provost of King's, come from the only printed edition of the Salisbury Antiphoner. |
