The Cardinall's Musick: Performance Diary
View the list below or see the performance calendar on the right.
Concert: Wigmore Hall, London (Monday 5 March 2012, 7.30 pm)
Byrd: The Englishman (second of The Cardinall’s Musick’s appearances in the Wigmore Hall’s Byrd Series)
Religious upheaval and persecution, endemic during the 1540s and 1550s, gave way to greater stability and tolerance under Elizabeth I. Byrd was able to trim his professional sails to the liturgical needs of the Church of England while retaining and covertly practising his outlawed Catholic faith. The composer’s magnificent settings of words from the 1559 Book of Common Prayer, with the exception of The Great Service, appear to date from his time as Organist and Master of the Choristers at Lincoln Cathedral in the 1560s and may have been written to secure a new job in London. The Great Service, written after he joined the Chapel Royal, stands as a masterpiece of Anglican music, an ornament of the first Elizabethan age.
Preceded by pre-concert talk by Andrew Carwood at 6.00 pm.
Date: Monday 5 March 2012, 7.30 pm Venue: www.wigmore-hall.org.uk »
Concert: St George’s, Bristol (Byrd Tour) (Saturday 24 March 2012, 7.30 pm)
This concert is part of The Cardinall’s Musick’s 2012 Byrd Tour and features Byrd’s Mass for Four Voices, Plorans plorabit, St John Passion, Defecit in dolore, Libera me Domine et pone me, Vide Domine quoniam tribulor, Libera me Domine de morte, Ave verum corpus and Tristitia et anxietas.
Date: Saturday 24 March 2012, 7.30 pm Venue: St George's, Bristol »
Concert: Music at Oxford (Byrd Tour) (Friday 30 March 2012, 7.30 pm)
This concert is part of The Cardinall’s Musick’s 2012 Byrd Tour. Here, Byrd’s solemn lenten music is delivered with impeccable craftsmanship and heartfelt expression in a programme which features the Mass for four voices, Propers for Easter, Haec dies [a 6 1591], Holy Saturday Vespers, In exituu Israel, Angelus Domini, Mane vobiscum, Post dies Octo and Deus in adjutorium. The atmosphere and acoustic of St Barnabas in Jericho are perfect for this penitential seasonal music.
Date: Friday 30 March 2012, 7.30 pm Venue: St Barnabas Church, Jericho, Oxford »
'Spem in alium & other sacred music'