Event listing: English Exiles | Smith Square Hall | Fri 1 Feb 2013 at 19:30

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Smith Square HallSmith Square, London, London, Greater London, SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom

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Programme

Works by Cooper (Coperario), John (1576-1626)
Works by Bull, John (1562-1628)
Works by Dering, Richard (1580-1630)
Works by Philips, Peter (1561-1628)

Performers

Choir of Royal Holloway
The English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble

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English exiles return to St John's Smith Square

Madelaine Jones, 5th February

While early English Baroque is not an area of music which generally comes to mind when we think of controversial composers, it seems that the scores of composers we now associate with purity and conventionalism had their own streaks of radicalism in their time, political and otherwise, and a fair few were exiled.

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