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New York Polyphony

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Singing of radiance and rich expressive power.The male vocal quartet New York Polyphony presents seven works on the theme of Passiontide.Hybrid SACD. New York Polyphony was formed in 2006 by Geoffrey Williams, Steven Caldicott Wilson, Christopher Dylan Herbert and Craig Phillips, with a repertoire centred on Renaissance and medieval music. They have released five albums on BIS, beginning with “endBeginning – Polyphony of the Franco-Flemish School” (BIS SA-1949); “Lamentationes” (BIS SA-2407) was named Best Album of 2020 in the Early Music category at the Gramophone Awards and drew high praise from the American magazine Fanfare.”And the sun darkened” is their sixth album, gathering seven works old and new on the theme of Passiontide. Two are by Loyset Compre (c.1445-1518) of Artois in northern France: the motet “Crux triumphans”, on a late medieval devotional text, and “Officium de cruce”,