Episode 3
Donald Macleod finds Tallis continuing to grapple with the new Anglican liturgy, and then - all change - as Mary comes to the throne, Catholicism is back and music returns to the luxuriant style of the pre-Reformation.
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Thomas Tallis
A new commandment
Performer: Chapelle du Roi, Alistair Dixon
- BRILLIANT CLASSICS 93612.
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Thomas Tallis
Gaude gloriosa
Performer: Tallis Scholars, Peter Phillips
- GIMELL 4549062.
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Thomas Tallis
Mass: Puer natus est nobis
Performer: The Clerkes of Oxenford, David Wulstan
- CALLIOPE CAL9623.
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- Wed 29 Sep 201012:00BBC Radio 3
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