The Cardinall's Musick; Andrew Carwood director

Booking for this series (excluding the Pre-Concert Talk and Wigmore Study Group) opens to Friends on 28 April 2011, to Mailing List Subscribers on 12 May and to the General Public on 19 May.

Performers

The Cardinall’s Musick

Andrew Carwood

director

Programme

Byrd

• Mass for Five Voices with Propers for the Feast of Corpus Christi
• Venite, exultemus Domino
• Haec dicit Dominus
• Visita quaesumus, Domine
• Cantate Domino
• Infelix ego

About this concert

Wigmore Hall launches a unique series exploring the music of William Byrd – the largest ever celebration of the English Renaissance master’s music in London. In six concerts over two seasons, The Cardinall’s Musick and Stile Antico present a range of music by England’s first truly great composer, who found himself caught between his own beliefs and a continually changing religious landscape. Ranging from the Latin sacred music of this recusant Catholic composer to his vernacular works, composed as the Tudors gave way to the Stuarts, the dark intensity of this music is perfectly suited to the vivid choral colours which Andrew Carwood draws from his specialist singers.

Supported by Hutton Collins Partners LLP