Cardinall's Musick and the angels

By Charlotte Valori, 30 December 2013

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Reviewed at Smith Square Hall, London on 20 December 2013

Victoria, Missa, O Magnum Mysterium

Palestrina, Hodie Christus Natus Est

Poulenc, Quatre motets pour le temps de Noël, FP 152: Hodie Christus natus est

Dering, Factum est silentium

Tippett, Plebs angelica

The Cardinall's Musick

Andrew Carwood, Director

Old and new: passionate Tallis and striking Frances-Hoad

Nick Boston, 20th July

Andrew Carwood and The Cardinall's Musick bring passion, vitality and grit to Tallis, and première a striking new piece by Cheryl Frances-Hoad in performances of the highest standard.

*****

Cardinall's Musick's Byrd Tour: More Passion?

Wilf Jones, 31st March

After fifteen years of trying to persuade us that Byrd’s lesser-known works are just as worth listening to as the famous ones, I felt that the Cardinall’s Musick could have come up with a more exciting programme of his celebration of Easter.

***11

Old and new: passionate Tallis and striking Frances-Hoad

Nick Boston, 20th July

Andrew Carwood and The Cardinall's Musick bring passion, vitality and grit to Tallis, and première a striking new piece by Cheryl Frances-Hoad in performances of the highest standard.

*****

A special relationship renewed: Leonard Slatkin returns to Prague

Frank Kuznik, 16th April

Leonard Slatkin returns to the Prague Symphony Orchestra with one of his own pieces, a Schubert tribute that steals the show.

****1

Cummings and the AAM win ‘Leipzig's Got Talent’

Nick Boston, 16th April

The Academy of Ancient Music poses the question what might have been in Leipzig with stunning performances of Bach and his competitors to be the new Thomaskantor.

*****

Tarmo Peltokoski conducts the Hallé in Mahler and Vaughan Williams

Leighton Jones, 16th April

Mahler’s Rückert-Lieder provide an apt, if somewhat unexpected, partner to Vaughan Williams’ A Sea Symphony in Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall.

****1

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Charlotte Valori

Charlotte Valori read Classics at Christ Church, Oxford. As a classicist, her main interest is Greek tragedy and its reception by later cultures, which has led to a continuing passion for theatre and opera. Charlotte reviews for several online magazines, and won the Bachtrack Opera Award 2015 for Best Written English Review. Follow her on Twitter @operissima.

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