Antony Pitts
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Antony Pitts is an English composer, conductor, and producer born on 24 March 1969 in Farnborough, Kent. In 1996, he received the Radio Academy BT Award for the early internet experiment Facing the Radio. He worked as a Senior Producer at BBC Radio 3 until 2005, winning the 2004 Prix Italia for the production A Pebble in the Pond. Pitts is the founder and director of the vocal ensemble TONUS PEREGRINUS, which specializes in sacred choral music. Under his direction, the ensemble released the albums Leonin / Perotin: Sacred Music from Notre-Dame Cathedral and Dunstable: Quam Pulchra Es / Veni Sancte Spiritus / Mass Movements on Hyperion Records in 2005. He held the position of Senior Lecturer at the Royal Academy of Music from 2006 to 2009. In 2011, he founded the record label 1equalmusic. Pitts succeeded Roland Peelman as Artistic Director of Australiaâs national vocal ensemble, The Song Company, in 2016. His compositions include the oratorio Jerusalem-Yerushalayim and the musical piece âLux Aeterna / Kontakion of the Departedâ.
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- Gloria - in canon by Tonus Peregrinus
- Veni Sancte Spiritus - Veni Creator, JD 32 by Tonus Peregrinus
- Vetus abit littera (4-part conductus) by Tonus Peregrinus
- Agnus Dei, JD 14 by Tonus Peregrinus
- Sederunt principes (4-part organum / plainchant) by Tonus Peregrinus
- Sanctus (Da gaudiorum premia), JD 18 by Tonus Peregrinus
- Psalm 115/113b - Non nobis Domine (organum examples after 9th-century Scolica enchiriadis) by Tonus Peregrinus
- Credo, JD 17: Credo (Da gaudiorum premia), JD 17 by Tonus Peregrinus
- Viderunt omnes (plainchant) by Tonus Peregrinus
- Viderunt omnes No. 1: ...justitiam suam (plainchant) by Tonus Peregrinus
- Sanctus, JD 6 by Tonus Peregrinus
- Viderunt omnes No. 2: ...salutare suum ante conspectum gentium revelavit... by Tonus Peregrinus
- Factum est salutare / ...Dominus... (2-part motet) by Tonus Peregrinus
- Lo! He comes with clouds descending (Tune: Olivers)
- Quam pulchra es, JD 44 by Tonus Peregrinus
- The Holly and the Ivy (English)
- Ding Dong! Merrily on High (French)
- While shepherds watched (Thos. Este's Psalter, 1592)
- O come, O come, Emmanuel (Veni, veni, emmanuel), carol
- Of the Father's heart begotten (A Christmas Procession)
- 2-part clausula (IV): ...Dominus... by Tonus Peregrinus
- O quickly come, dread Judge of all (tune Vater Unser after Luther) (13)
- Viderunt omnes No. 1: ...salutare suum ante conspectum gentium revelavit... by Tonus Peregrinus
- Beata viscera (monophonic conductus) by Tonus Peregrinus
