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Rogers Covey-Crump (born 1944 in St Albans, Hertfordshire) is an English tenor, especially acclaimed for his Purcell recordings made for the Hyperion label and for his interpretation of the role of Evangelist in JSBach's Passion settings, well known for his membership in the world-famous Hilliard Ensemble. Rogers's comprehensive discography can be found at http://www.contrapunctus.yoyo.pl/rcc/.

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (b. 3 February 1525 – 2 February 1526; d. 2 February 1594) was an Italian Renaissance composer and the most well-known 16th-century representative of the Roman School of musical composition. Palestrina became famous through his output of sacred music. He had an enormous influence on the development of Roman Catholic church music, and his work has often been seen as the culmination of Renaissance polyphony.

Thomas Tallis (c 1505 – 23 November 1585) was an English composer. Tallis flourished as a church musician during the often stormy sixteenth century in England. He occupies a primary place in anthologies of English church music, and is considered among the best of its earliest composers. Little is known about his early life, but there seems to be agreement that he was born around 1505, toward the close of the reign of Henry VII. His first known appointment to a musical position was as organist of Dover Priory, a Benedictine priory at Dover (now Dover College) in 1532.

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