On Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cardinall%27s_Musick
Creation 1989
City Oxford, UK
Country United Kingdom
Links Allmusic

The Cardinall's Musick is one of England's highly acclaimed early music choral ensembles. It specializes in pre-Reformation English vocal and choral music […].

The Cardinall's Musick was founded in 1989 by Andrew Carwood and David Skinner. Carwood, a Cambridge graduate and professional solo and consort singer, and Skinner, an American musicologist from California who moved to the United Kingdom in 1987, were then both lay clerks at Christ Church, Oxford. They continue to direct the ensemble, with Carwood predominantly tending to the musical performances and Skinner doing more of the research and editing that produces the fresh, accurate editions of the music that are Cardinall's Musick's trademark. […]

The ensemble was originally an all-male group. When the British record company ASV asked Cardinall's Musick to record music of Nicholas Ludford in 1991, Carwood and Skinner added higher voices to the group. From the beginning, Carwood's approach was to produce a rich and vibrant sound that is far removed from the dry results too often produced by some historically-based singing groups. […]

The Cardinall's Musick quickly gained fame among British Renaissance music groups, and appeared at the major festivals (Spitalfields, Aldeburgh, the BBC Proms, and the South Bank, to name a few) and major concert stages of the country. It has also given concerts in France, and makes frequent appearances on BBC's Radio 3.

It recorded primarily on the ASV label and then on Hyperion, but also on Gaudeamus and Meridian, producing recordings of the complete known music of Robert Fayrfax, the festal Masses and Antiphons of Nicholas Ludford, Cornysh's Magnificat and Salve Regina, Merbecke's Missa per arme iustitie, and, reflecting a decision to broaden its musical base, a highly acclaimed recording of the Missa Gaudeamus by the great Spanish composer Tomás Luis de Victoria.

Its major recording project was an ambitious traversal of the complete works of William Byrd, the prolific and great English Catholic composer who left a vast body of works. This project would become the first integral recording of the works of any of the major Renaissance composers. […] The series was completed on Hyperion in 2010 with the album Infelix Ego, which was only the second early music disc ever to be named Gramophone Recording of the Year. […] Allmusic