The Cardinall’s Musick

In light of the coronavirus outbreak, this performance has been postponed. We are working with Cardinall’s Musick to secure a new date in 2021 for this concert performance. Existing ticket holders will be updated with the new date as soon as we have it, and their tickets will be transferred over.

We are doing our utmost to support the national effort in reducing the spread of coronavirus and the health and well-being of all our visitors, staff members and visiting performers is our number one priority.

Thank you for your continued support and we look forward to welcoming you on future occasions.

A beautiful programme which sets 16th-century polyphony alongside contemporary minimalism. The mystical minimalists John Tavener and Arvo Pärt are as immersed in their religious feelings as William Byrd and Orlando Gibbons yet they come from very different traditions. Byrd’s dark-toned Mass for four voices inspired by Catholic devotion is set against Gibbons’ more suave and energetic Anglican writing.

Tavener and Arvo Pärt instead look to the Orthodox traditions of the East. These contemporary writers use a direct and powerful approach, ikon-like in its seeming simplicity but immensely powerful.

‘Truly extraordinary.’

The New York Times