In the late Victorian period, many folk songs were rediscovered in England – their influence on British music of the last century plays a remarkable role: many British composers of the 20th century, including Benjamin Britten, for example, took up the folk song as a medium and rearranged it.
\nIn this recording, the Trinity Boys Choir sings a selection of such rearranged English folk songs. The special thing about this recording is that the choir performs purely as a children’s choir. The resulting bright, bell-like sound is unique. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In the late Victorian period, many folk songs were rediscovered in England – their influence on British music of the last century plays a remarkable role: many British composers of the 20th century, including Benjamin Britten, for example, took up the folk song as a medium and rearranged it. In this recording, the Trinity Boys … Continue reading A Celebration of British Folksong<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4601,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1910,1911],"tags":[977,1308,1913,1306],"class_list":["post-11575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-choir-2","category-music-2","tag-benjamin-britten","tag-david-swinson","tag-laetitia-federici","tag-trinity-boys-choir"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rondeau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rondeau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rondeau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rondeau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rondeau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rondeau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rondeau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rondeau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rondeau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rondeau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}