Tonus Peregrinus (vocal ensemble)

Tonus Peregrinus is a vocal ensemble specialising in early music and contemporary sacred music,[1] especially that of founder and director, Antony Pitts. TP, as they are also known, has recorded a number of CDs for Naxos,[2] their first winning the Cannes Classical Award (Arvo Pärt's Passio), and two albums of Antony Pitts' music for Hyperion Records[3] – Seven Letters and Alpha and Omega. Their latest Naxos album, Music from the Eton Choirbook (8.572840) was recorded using a new microphone technique developed by NRK engineer Geoff Miles.[4]

The ensemble sang at the memorial for Alexander Litvinenko.[5]

References

  1. ↑ www.tonusperegrinus.co.uk
  2. ↑ Naxos biography of Antony Pitts
  3. ↑ Hyperion recordings of Antony Pitts
  4. ↑ photograph of experimental "Elephant Ears"
  5. ↑ There is a green hill


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