Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

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BBC Radio 3 is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 30th September 1967. It replaced Third Programme.

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Live and recorded concerts from all over the UK. Includes the Wigmore chamber music series

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Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Cinquecento

Cinquecento

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From Wigmore Hall, vocal ensemble Cinquecento perform music from Reformation England

From Wigmore Hall, early music vocal ensemble Cinquecento perform a programme called Songs for Troubled Times: Music from Reformation England.

From Wigmore Hall, the early music vocal ensemble Cinquecento performs a programme called 'Songs for Troubled Times: Music from Reformation England'. The Reformation caused a rupture in liturgical music, with composers having to change style according to whether the monarch was Catholic or Protestant.

From London's Wigmore Hall
Presented by Hannah French

Thomas Tallis: Salvator mundi (i) 
Christopher Tye: The Mean Mass - Gloria 
Thomas Tallis: In jejunio et fletu 
Thomas Tallis: Te lucis ante terminum (i) 
Thomas Tallis: Lamentations I 
Thomas Tallis: If ye love me 
Christopher Tye: The Mean Mass - Sanctus 
John Sheppard: The Lord's Prayer 
Thomas Tallis: Te lucis ante terminum (ii) 
Christopher Tye: The Mean Mass - Agnus Dei 
William Byrd: Ne irascaris, Domine

Cinquecento

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