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Glossa has always supported innovative perspectives on early music. For this reason, in 1998 it encouraged an excellent group of British singers and an instrumental ensemble led by the Frenchmen Jean-Pierre Canihac and Francis Mercet, all under the directorship of Richard Cheetham and going by the name of Orchestra of the Renaissance, to take on something as “brazen” as interpreting the polyphony of John Taverner with instrumental accompaniment. This stimulating program, which includes his Missa Gloria tibi Trinitas, portrays the nuptial ceremony of Mary Tudor and Philip of Spain at Winchester in 1554.The result is breath taking and deeply moving.