The San Francisco based ensemble was originally founded in 1978 by a graduate student in musicology interested in developing a group that sang music from the medieval and Renaissance periods. He used only male voices, as was the tradition in most churches during the Renaissance.To name the group, "Chanticleer" was suggested - the name of the "clear singing" rooster in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.
The group has morphed over the years, and has included more than 100 singers over that time. I had a chance to hear these guys perform a little over a year ago - and it was, hands down, the best concert I have ever attended. Their repertoire has expanded beyond their renaissance and medieval roots, and now perform an incredible array of music.
If you ever have a chance to hear them, I promise you, it will be like nothing else you have ever heard.
This video is from their concert in Budapest in January of this year.
Happy listening!
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