Byrd Tour 2012

Plans are in place for our landmark Byrd Tour which runs through 2012.  Byrd has been a major feature of our concerts for many years now but this tour plans to present every note of Latin church music (and some English as well!) in a series of concerts around the UK.  Each programme will explore a different aspect of Byrd’s masterful compositions, including his Masses and moving through the liturgical year in sequence. The tour will take us to major festivals and concert venues across the UK, including venues as far afield as the Orkney Islands in Scotland and St David’s in Wales. The Byrd Tour will be launched at Wigmore Hall on March 5th 2012.  The final concert will take place at St John’s Smith Square in December.  In between, we will perform at:

St George’s, Bristol (March 24), St Barnabas Church, Oxford (March 30), Howard Assembly Rooms, Leeds (April 4), Wigmore Hall (May 17), Brighton Festival (May 18), St David’s Festival (June 7), St Magnus Festival (June 27), Fotheringhay Church (July 7), Winchester Festival (July 10), Stondon Massey (September 2), Lammermuir Festival (September 21), Canterbury Festival (October 20), Arundel Cathedral (November 3). 

Further details will be published soon.

“This is music of the highest quality which has the power to move both the heart and the mind. I find William Byrd’s music to be the most impassioned of all composers across Europe and into the New World. This touring programme gives The Cardinall’s Musick an opportunity to take Byrd around the country, to showcase his passion and to place him in context as the most important musician of the Tudor age.”  Andrew Carwood