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Justly hailed as a gramophone milestone on its 1999 release, Davitt Moroney’s complete William Byrd keyboard works cycle cannot be ignored by anyone with a
As explained in Elizabeth Kenny and Mark Levy’s informative liner notes, beauty and “expressive power” of the voice are the essential ingredients in performing these
In 1992, Paul Hillier and his Theatre of Voices recorded the Byrd four-part mass with literally four voices–soprano Judith Nelson, countertenor Drew Minter, tenor Paul
Some listeners may remember Paul Hillier’s Byrd recording of 10 years ago for ECM, featuring the “four-part” Mass, some motets, and a few works by
This is a first-rate combination of performing forces and works, a pleasing mix of 17 instrumental and vocal pieces (some for solo voice and viols,
This is a very attractive program that includes many of the most well loved of William Byrd’s sacred choral works. While the Ave verum corpus
Thomas Tallis’ 40-voice motet Spem in alium (scored for eight five-part choirs) was composed some 400 years before the modern age of recordings, and perhaps
No question, these consort songs by William Byrd are a specialty area of the vocal repertoire visited primarily by early music aficionados and, in this
Boston’s Handel & Haydn Society, founded nearly 200 years ago and responsible for the American premieres of such works as Handel’s Messiah, makes some lovely
Most listeners who love English choral music–whatever the period–will own multiple recordings of William Byrd’s church works, from the Latin motets and masses to the
