This week’s #RAArtistinFocus is The Cardinall's Musick – 35 years strong - known primarily for their performances of English Renaissance music, but who also embrace a wide range of styles and periods. We last featured them in 2022, and this week find out even more in our social media feeds.
“- a masterclass in close counterpoint” – The Times (Wigmore Hall)
In July, TCM premiered Julian Anderson’s ‘Nothing At All’ at Wigmore Hall - a virtuoso performance with delightfully inventive textures and timbres, which drew on the text of the Japanese Noh play Hagoromo as retold by Paul Griffiths. Read more here.
Recording exclusively with Hyperion records, the group have made over 40 recordings of Renaissance music, receiving critical acclaim and a Gramophone award no fewer than 4 times: in 1995, 2006, 2007 and 2010 for recordings of Fayrfax, Tallis and Byrd. Listen to them singing the Nunc Dimittis from the Byrd Great Service.
#RAArtistinFocus fact of the day: The Cardinall's Musick takes its name from the 16th-century cardinal, Thomas Wolsey, who was Henry VIII's lord chancellor and known for being England's greatest medieval cardinal.
See TCM next at Wigmore Hall during the Festive season with their programme 'Mirabile Mysterium' on Fri 13 Dec 2024, 7.30pm – featuring works by Lassus, Victoria, Praetorius, Hassler, Handl, McDowall & Palestrina.
