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Welcome to the 9th Cork Midsummer Festival.
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The Tallis Scholars
“Anyone familiar with Renaissance music knows that this group has attained superstardom among its ilk” (The Boston Globe).
To mark the 500th anniversary of Thomas Tallis’ birth, the world's leading exponents of Renaissance sacred music return to Cork to give a concert in historic St Fin Barre’s, after a rapturously received concert in the same venue in 2004.
The Tallis Scholars give around 60 concerts worldwide each year. Recent appearances include concerts at the Salzburg Festival, Bath Festival, Milan Cathedral Festival, at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow and at the BBC Proms in London. The group embark on a tour of the Far East directly after this concert.
The group’s awards include the GRAMOPHONE magazine’s Record of the Year award (the only recording of early music ever to win this coveted award), the Diapason d’Or de l’Année, GRAMOPHONE’S Early Music Award in 1991, the 1994 Early Music Award and the People’s Choice Award in a joint Classic FM/GRAMOPHONE competition.
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This concert will feature the sacred music of Tallis, Sheppard and Byrd. They will also perform their world famous, and extraordinarily gripping, interpretation of Allegri’s beautiful Miserere.
It’s easy to take the perfection of this group’s sonority for granted, but in that acoustic it shocked me again.
The Independent
This extraordinary English ensemble.
The New York Times
Their multiple voices overlapping and interweaving ecstatically — a jubilant expression of spiritual certainty.
The Guardian
St Finbarre’s Cathedral
Sat 18th June @ 8pm
€25 (group rates available)
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CORK MIDSUMMER FESTIVAL BOOKING DETAILS
Booking on : 1890 200 555
Bookings in person at Festival Box Office,
Festival House, 15 Grand Parade, Cork.
9.30am - 5.30pm, Mon - Fri | 9.30am - 1pm, Sat.
Box Office hours will be extended during the Festival.
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