Chanticleer

Chanticleer began singing Medieval and Renaissance music more than thirty-five years ago, and their soaring performances helped revive this vital repertoire in America. Now the twelve-member vocal ensemble the Washington Post calls "the reigning gods of the men¿s chorus world" have become the standard bearers of a flourishing early music scene, singing with unmatched beauty and precision.Chanticleer's program at Baldwin Auditorium revolves around the extraordinary circle of composers that assembled in Venice in the late Renaissance. Adrian Willaert and Giovanni Gabrieli challenged the choirs of St. Mark's with their elaborate triple-chorus polyphony, a form their successor Claudio Monteverdi both embraced and transformed into the more melodic Baroque style.