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  1. Elora Festival – The Gesualdo Six with Owain Park

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    The Gesualdo Six with Owain Park: English Motets

    During the renaissance, musical composition flourished, but it was a time of great change, fuelled by religious division. This program traces music written by some of the English renaissance masters over a period of two hundred years, encompassing florid medieval-sounding works by Forest and Sheryngham, intricately woven polyphonic works by Tallis and Byrd, and the beautiful simplicity of Tomkins and White.

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