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About Dering, Richard (1580-1630)

Period: Early

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Date and venueTitle
1-Feb-2013
St John's Smith Square
English exiles return to St John's Smith Square
Image credit: The English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble © Hugh BeauchampWhile early English Baroque is not an area of music which generally comes to mind when we think of controversial composers, it seems that the scores of composers we now associate with purity and conventionalism had their own streaks of radicalism in their time, political and otherwise, and a fair few were exiled. The Choir of Royal Holloway, directed by Rupert Gough, and the English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble decided to join forces to root out a few of the old English rascals and showcase their works.
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