The Cardinall's Musick: Performance Diary
View the list below or see the performance calendar on the right.
Concert: Il siglo d’oro – Music in honour of the Virgin Mary from 16th-century Spain
Il siglo d’oro – the Golden Age – was the name that Spaniards gave to their great flowering of music in the sixteenth century. Spain brought forth some of the finest writers of the age and the Virgin Mary was a popular subject with all of them. Francisco Guerrero was known as ‘el cantor de Maria’. Much of his highly characterful music was dedicated to the Virgin, from well-crafted four-part pieces to the more splendid double-choir numbers. This fascinating exploration of music from sixteenth-century Spain sets Guerrero alongside his contemporaries and colleagues Morales, Esquivel, Vivanco, Alonso Lobo and the brightest star of all, Tomás Luis de Victoria.
Date: Friday 17 June 2011, 7.30 pm Venue: All Saints, Boughton Aluph »
Concert: Byrd’s Great Service
The Cardinall’s Musick present William Byrd’s monumental Great Service interspersed with student performances of the composer’s Fantasias. As part of a special study-day at the Academy, the group will also work with choral conducting and organ students on the music of William Byrd. For details please e-mail the Academy.
Date: Friday 22nd April, 2011 Venue: Haslemere Hall »
Latin Church Music
This disc contains all the music left to us in a complete state by William Cornysh the elder, and in so doing draws attention to the difference between the two composers named William Cornysh – the father and the son. The father is the composer of the Latin church music in the sweeping pre-Reformation style: the son, the writer of pieces in English and courtly songs. David Skinner’s research, printed in the CD booklet, provides the evidence and makes the connection between the Cornysh Magnificat and two other setting of the same text by Edmund Turges and Henry Prentes which obviously use Cornysh’s work as their model.
The Cardinall’s have the angels on their side GRAMOPHONE
