Videos
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December 2022 - Paul Grindlay & Ralph Meier rehearsing for CRSP’s Dec 4th concert. They are performing Laudate Dominum by Claudio Monteverdi.
Love, Love, Love
Virtual Concert May 2022
We streamed this concert video live on May 15, 2022,. It is now available to view at your leisure.
Featuring CRSP choir videos, original poetry and beautiful instrumental pieces, we celebrate love in all of its forms.
A Light In The Darkness
Virtual Concert December 2021
We streamed this video concert live in December 2021. Now it is available to view at your leisure.
Featuring 4 choral pieces, 2 guest instrumentalists and poetry readings - sharing the light which music brings during the darkest time of the year.
CRSP Interview with Katherine Hill of The Toronto Consort
Video 2 of 2
In the second part of this conversation we learn about medieval music notation, original music by Hildegard of Bingen and other female composers of the Middle Ages, and the lives of cloistered women at that time.
For more information about Katherine Hill and the Toronto Consort go to https://www.torontoconsort.org/about-us/the-consort/katherine-hill
CRSP Interview with Katherine Hill of The Toronto Consort
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Our soprano Marcia Jenneth Epstein interviews Katherine Hill of The Toronto Consort as part of our Early Music Lecture Series. There is a rich history of music written and performed by women in the Middle Ages. This interview discusses Medieval ideas about singing, women's lives in Medieval cloisters and villages, and the statement "The past is a foreign country - they do things differently here".
For more information about Katherine Hill and the Toronto Consort go to https://www.torontoconsort.org/about-us/the-consort/katherine-hill
Virtual Choir Video June 2021
We chose this video to celebrate Spring complete lots of "fa la la's" and playful nymphs enticing us to let go of our cares and worries and play!
Virtual Choir Video May 2021
Enjoy this beautiful, sad and romantic song about love, loss and mourning.
Poetic Renaissance
Virtual Concert May 2021
We streamed this virtual concert live. Now it is available to be viewed at your leisure.
After a season of adapting to a brave new world with regards to choir performance, this concert features 4 virtual choir videos, Shakespeare and musical performances by three of Calgary's talented early music performers.
Truly a musical bouquet to bring in the Spring. Enjoy!
Virtual Choir Video April 2021
A very beautiful arrangement of this popular French Canadian folk song - arranged by our late founding Director Anthony Petti.
CRSP Interview with Peter Phillips of Tallis Scholars
Video 2 of 2
As part of our Early Music Lecture Series, we present part 2 of 2 of our interview with Peter Phillips of the Tallis Scholars from our 2020/21 Virtual Season.
"I can't wait to do a live concert."
In the second part of his interview with CRSP bass Nicholas Žekulin, Tallis Scholars Artistic Director Peter Phillips talks about the pandemic's effects on his artistic endeavours, his love for the choral works of Josquin, and the importance of amateur early-music choirs.
And then, Peter Phillips starts interviewing Nick about the Calgary Renaissance Singers & Players!
For more information on Peter Phillips and the Tallis Scholars check out their website https://www.thetallisscholars.co.uk/
CRSP Interview with Peter Phillips of Tallis Scholars
Video 1 of 2
Our first offering from the Early Music Lecture Series from our 2020/21 Virtual Season.
"I've always tried to make the Tallis Scholars into an instrument on which I can play."
Tallis Scholars Artistic Director Peter Phillips joins CRSP bass Nicholas Žekulin to talk about the Tallis Scholars sound, the fads in early-music interpretation over the last fifty years, and his thoughts about recording versus live concert presentations.
For more information on Peter Phillips and the Tallis Scholars check out their website: https://www.thetallisscholars.co.uk
Virtual Choir Video February 2021
This madrigal is full of fun and features a chorus of cats, dogs, owls, and cuckoos over a bass melody with plenty of Fa-la-la’s! Be sure to watch the end for outtakes!
A Renaissance Evensong December 2020
On December 19, 2020, we live-streamed our very first video concert! Here is the full concert video to be enjoyed at any time.
Virtual Choir Video December 2020 (2 of 2)
Virtual Choir Video December 2020 (1 of 2)
During the holiday season, CRSP is wont to sing traditional, old carols like this one. This is our third choir video we are sharing with the world during this time of plague.
Virtual Choir Video November 2020
Virtual Choir Video October 2020
CRSP singers convened in their own homes and individually recorded their parts for this beautiful Ave Maria from the fifteenth century. It was quite something to learn this new technology. Not only did we have to get used to the sound of our own voice, separated from others' voices and particularly other parts, but there were concerns about whether we were looking at the camera, whether the laptop was going to fall from its perch, or whether the background was tidy enough. Now, having seen how all our individual parts have come together to produce the Renaissance sound we so love, we are eager for the next choir video, coming in November to this same station!
In Performance: Calgary Renaissance Singers & Players, 2014
Created on our August 2014 tour to Ponteix, Saskatchewan on the occasion of the town’s 100th anniversary celebration. The Notre Dame d’Auvigne church was a wonderful soundscape for this music.
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In the media: CRSP member Dr. Nicholas on CBC Calgary, 2019
Dr. Nicholas Žekulin – one of our long-term choir members and repertoire expert – was interviewed by Doug Dirks on the CBC Radio show "The Homestretch" to discuss the 50th Anniversary of the Choir - this film was produced by CBC-TV Calgary and broadcast on the "Our Calgary" program Dec 2019.
In Performance: Calgary Renaissance Singers & Players, 2016
Listen to Sicut Cervus performed live by CRSP in April 2016. This is a beautiful example of
a capella polyphonic choral pieces we perform.
About the Choir: Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the CRSP
To mark our 50th Anniversary, our Choir commissioned this special video in 2019. Coronavirus delayed the 50th Anniversary performance, which was meant to take place March 2020, so the 50th Anniversary season will now extend to two years, 2019-2021.