Pomerium

The "garden" or "orchard" of music was the title of a fourteenth-century musical treatise by Marchetus of Padua, who considered his work to present all the flowers and fruits of the art of music. Alexander Blachly adopted this lovely and evocative title for the name of his a cappella singing ensemble, founded in 1972, and devoted to beautiful and sensitive performances of Renaissance polyphony. The group of roughly fifteen singers, based in New York, has recorded on several labels, including Nonesuch, Classical Masters, Dorian Discovery, and Deutsche Grammophon Archiv, while t...