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Gramophone award-winning ensemble The Cardinall s Musick present an album of music by Renaissance composer Robert Parsons. Very few records remain of the composer s short life and his musical output is often overlooked, perhaps due to the long shadow of William Byrd, his successor at the Chapel Royal. However, Parsons vocal writing is some of the most opulent of the period. The Cardinall s Musick give sublime performances of some of the composer s most sumptuous works, from the remarkably sophisticated Magnificat to the dramatic O bone Jesu.