Review Byrd & Tallis: ... in chains of gold

From: The Scotsman | Date: May 23, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

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A DISC featuring the Dunedin Consort in music by William Byrd and Thomas Tallis does not come as a surprise. It is not so long ago that the Scottish-based a cappella choral group did the rounds with a programme centring on these very composers, held together with readings from contemporary Elizabethan Thomas Morley's treatise "A ...

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