Performances and events in 2009
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Concert: Inheritance – Vaughan Williams & the Tudors Anniversary programme |
| When Ralph Vaughan Williams wrote his Mass in 1922, it was a landmark composition. The first unaccompanied setting since those of the Catholic composers of the 16th century, it evoked the spirit of a bygone age and spoke with a stunning spirituality which captured the attention of all musicians. Here RVW is set in the context of the renaissance masters who helped to create this style. His Mass is interpolated with music by John Taverner, first organist of Christ Church, Oxford whilst in the second half he is joined by Thomas Tallis, the man who inspired his sublime Tallis Fantasia. |
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Friday 30 January 2009, 7.30 pm Wigmore Hall |
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Concert |
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Sunday 1 February 2009, 7.30 pm Brasenose College, Oxford |
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Concert |
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Thursday 5 February 2009, 7.30 pm Royal Northern College of Music |
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Workshop |
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Saturday 18 April 2009, 3.30 pm Petersham Festival |
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Saturday 18 April 2009, 6.30 pm & 9.30 pm Petersham Festival |
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Prom The BBC Proms 2009 |
| The Cardinall’s Musick launch this year’s Proms Chamber Music series by marking the 500th anniversary of the coronation of Henry VIII. Richly sonorous and grand in design, the music of the time combines massive choral writing with a complex layering of solo lines. The programme’s mix of sacred and secular includes songs by Henry VIII himself and settings of texts in his honour by leading composers of the day. |
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Monday 20 July 2009, 1.00 pm Cadogan Hall, London  More info
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Concert Lake District Summer Music Festival |
| A programme celebrating the 500th anniversary of Henry VIII’s coronation, including music by Taverner, Tallis, Cornysh, Ludford and Henry VIII. |
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Wednesday 5 August 2009, 7.30 pm Kendal Parish Church |
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Concert: The path to Byrd Leamington Music |
| It is impossible to escape our influences. Those whom we meet when young who impress us or experiences which have an indelible effect on our lives. The young William Byrd spent his formative teenage years in the middle of the maelstrom of the Reformation in England. With Mary’s accession to the throne in 1553, composers felt at liberty to return to their Latin texts and to produce ecstatic music on a large scale after the strictures of Edward VI’s Protestant revolution. This programme sets the music of some of the salient composers of this time – Robert White, Robert Parsons, Thomas Tallis – with that of William Byrd himself. |
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Tuesday 3 November 2009, 7.30 pm St Mary’s Church, Warwick |
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Annual Christmas Concert: In honour of the Virgin 20th-anniversary concert |
| Twenty years ago in Oxford – Christmas 1989 – a new early-music ensemble called The Cardinall’s Musick performed their very first concert. Now established as one of Britain’s leading vocal groups, they return to the most exciting and vibrant composers of the sixteenth century in this year’s festive programme dedicated to the Virgin Mary. Lassus’ stunning double-choir Missa Osculetur me is interleaved with motets by Victoria, and William Byrd is represented by a set of Mass Propers for the Nativity of the Virgin. The evening is brought to a stirring conclusion with Palestrina’s vivacious, celebratory double-choir Magnificat – an inspiring collection of great names from the past to prepare for the season of Christmas. |
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Friday 18 December 2009, 7.30 pm St John’s, Smith Square |
Performances and events in 2010
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Concert for Radio France: Palestrina, genius of Rome |
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Friday 5 March 2010 Collège des Bernardins, Paris |
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Concert: Music from Spain’s ‘Golden Age’ |
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Monday 12 July 2010, 7.30 pm Wigmore Hall, London |
