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

By Wilf Jones, 06 April 2012

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Reviewed at St Barnabas Church, Jericho, Oxford on 31 March 2012

Programme to include:

Byrd, Mass for Four Voices

Byrd, Propers for Easter

Byrd, Haec Dies

Byrd, Holy Saturday Vespers

Works by Sheppard

Works by Byrd

Works by Mundy

Byrd, Angelus Domini

Byrd, Mane vobiscum

Byrd, Post dies Octo

Byrd, Deus in adjutorium

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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 and the angels

Charlotte Valori, 20th December

An interesting programme which brings together music inspired by angels from Palestrina to Tippett, sung in the gorgeous surroundings of St John's, Smith Square.

***11

Concertos – for violin and for orchestra – from the Hallé

Peter Connors, 22nd March

Viktoria Mullova is a superb soloist in Brahms' Violin Concerto, while an orchestra full of soloists play Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra with Kahchun Wong presiding.

*****

Guitars, electronics and ancient treatises: the JACK Quartet at 92NY

Kurt Gottschalk, 20th March

At 92NY, the JACK Quartet performs four new works developed in their JACK Studio, including a commissioned premiere from the electrifying Tristan Perich.

****1

Kristiina Poska makes an exciting return to conduct the RSNO

Simon Thompson, 20th March

Kristiina Poska directs the RSNO in gripping Tchaikovsky and Pärt, but words and music only occasionally match in Elena Langer's new song cycle.

***11

Chopin and Franck reframed with elegance and insight in Dublin

Andrew Larkin, 20th March

In Dublin, Jean-Luc Tingaud and Louis Lortie bring clarity and purpose to two composers often ill at ease with the orchestra.

****1

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Wilf Jones

Wilfrid Jones is a music student and choral scholar at New College, Oxford. He directs Floreat Cantus, a London-based chamber choir, and sings in various professional church choirs in Oxford.