A programme of his madrigals sung by The BBC Singers (A) Margaret Godley Margaret Rolfe
Margaret Rees Joyce Sutton Bradbridge White Stanley Riley Emlyn Bebb Samuel Dyson
Conductor, Leslie Woodgate
Richard Dering , who died in 1630, was educated in Italy and returned to England with a great musical reputation. He practised in London and later in Brussels as organist to the convent of English nuns. In 1625 he became one of Charles I's musicians and organist to Queen Htnrittta Maria.
Of his madrigals Sir Richard Terry has said that they may be described as ' the English madrigal -pure English madrigal-in its last phase '.