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Year of birth | 1365 |
Year of death | 1446 |
Nationality | United Kingdom |
Period | Early |
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Orlando Consort - "The Call of the Phoenix"

Generally when we think of the first great flowering of English church music, our minds go to the giants of the Tudor age – Tallis, Byrd, Gibbons and their contemporaries. But as we learned this evening in the company of the Orlando Consort, the rich tradition of English choral music has even earlier origins, back in the priories of the Middle Ages.