Description
The stunning singers of New York Polyphony join Piffaro in a program of English music for the Christmas season. Spanning hundreds of years – from the time of the mysterious and ethereal Worcester Fragments to music by 21st century composer Andrew Smith written just for NYP – this music will transcend time and place. “Widely regarded as North America’s masters of music for Renaissance wind band” (St Paul Pioneer Press), Piffaro delights audiences throughout the world with highly polished recreations of the rustic music of the peasantry and the elegant sounds of the official wind bands of the late Medieval and Renaissance periods. Its musicians perform on shawms, dulcians, sackbuts, recorders, krumhorns, bagpipes, lutes, guitars, harps, and a variety of percussion — all careful reconstructions of instruments from the period.