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London Mozart Players: Four World Seasons, review: not much more than a series of pretty sonic postcards The i 2/1/2021 Kate Pettigrew © Provided by The i London Mozart Players (Photo: Kevin Day/ Oneday Photography) Back in September, St Martin-in-the-Fields church at Trafalgar Square made headlines for all the wrong reasons, when a decision to redefine its musical output – moving away from freelance ensembles and venue-for-hire gigs and towards a new, in-house provision – devolved into a distinctly unholy row. Now, four months on, we get to judge for ourselves, as th...

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All music by Thomas Tallis used with permission of the artists and labels listed below. As a Gentleman of the Chapel Royal, Thomas Tallis (1505-1585) composed sacred music for four successive English monarchs, starting with Henry VIII and ending with Elizabeth. Those were turbulent times in England, especially for a church musician. Like his colleague (and probable pupil) William Byrd, Tallis was able to adapt his compositional style to meet the constantly shifting ideological demands of the regimes under which he served. Unlike the combative Byrd, who in his later years removed himself from ...