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Fairest Isle

on BBC Radio 3

Dregs from the Popish Dunghill
In the third part of this monthly history of British music, Roderick Swanston considers the extremes of religious taste in the troubled years between 1540 and 1620 and explains how the music of Thomas Tallis ,
William Byrd and Orlando Gibbons kept up with - or out of the way of - the successive occupants of the English throne.
Producer Antony Pitts

Contributors

Music:
Roderick Swanston
Unknown:
Thomas Tallis
Unknown:
William Byrd
Unknown:
Orlando Gibbons
Producer:
Antony Pitts

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