Hyperion Records | Byrd: Gradualia

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CDH55047
(Originally issued on CDA66451)
Helios (Hyperion's budget label)

Recording details: March 1990
Rosslyn Hill Unitarian Chapel, Hampstead, London, United Kingdom
Produced by Gary Cole
Engineered by Antony Howell
Release date: May 2002
Total duration: 79 minutes 6 seconds

'If you didn't get this disc first time round, don't hesitate to buy it now' (Early Music Review)

'The singing is exquisite, the balance always right, the intensity of devotion always present' (Fanfare, USA)

'Just for fun I listened to all nine Alleluia settings one after the other and was astonished at the variety and interest of the music ... Byrd at his most impressive and sublime here in the glorious Nunc Dimittis and in the delicate intricacy of Optimam partem. The recording and performances are superb' (BBC Music Magazine Top 1000 CDs Guide)

William Byrd (1539/40-1623)

Gradualia

William Byrd Choir, Gavin Turner (conductor)

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		Suscepimus Deus
1		Part 1: Suscepimus Deus [2'22]
2		Part 2: Iustitia [0'38]
3		Part 3: Magnus Dominus [1'58]
		Sicut audivimus
4		Part 1: Sicut audivimus [1'14]
5		Part 2: Alleluia [0'40]
6		Senex puerum [1'42]
7		Nunc dimittis [5'34]
8		Responsum accepit Simeon [4'07]
		Salve sancta parens
9		Part 1: Salve sancta parens [1'29]
10		Part 2: Alleluia [0'31]
11		Part 3: Eructavit cor meum [1'53]
		Benedicta et venerabilis – Virgo Dei genetrix
12		Part 1: Benedicta et venerabilis – Virgo Dei genetrix [2'27]
13		Part 2: Alleluia [0'42]
14		Felix es, sacra Virgo [1'30]
		Beata es, Virgo Maria
15		Part 1: Beata es, Virgo Maria [2'01]
16		Part 2: Alleluia [0'52]
		Beata viscera
17		Part 1: Beata viscera [1'43]
18		Part 2: Alleluia [0'40]
		Rorate caeli
19		Part 1: Rorate caeli [1'27]
20		Part 2: Benedixisti Domine [2'11]
21		Tollite portas [2'10]
		Ave Maria
22		Part 1: Ave Maria [1'23]
23		Part 2: Alleluia [0'48]
		Ecce virgo concipiet
24		Part 1: Ecce virgo concipiet [2'07]
25		Part 2: Alleluia [0'30]
		Vultum tuum
26		Part 1: Vultum tuum [2'22]
27		Part 2: Alleluia [0'47]
		Speciosus forma – Eructavit – Lingua mea
28		Part 1: Speciosos forma – Erucavit – Lingua mea [3'04]
29		Part 2: Alleluia [0'38]
30		Post partum [2'56]
31		Felix namque es [1'41]
		Alleluia – Ave Maria
32		Part 1: Alleluia – Ave Maria [1'57]
33		Part 2: Virga Jesse 'iesse' [2'22]
34		Gaude Maria [3'41]
		Diffusa est gratia
35		Part 1: Diffusa est gratia [1'38]
36		Part 2: Propter veritatem [2'42]
37		Part 3: Alleluia [0'31]
38		Part 4: Vultum tuum [3'55]
		Gaudeamus omnes
39		Part 1: Gaudeamus omnes [2'20]
40		Part 2: Assumpta est Maria [1'28]
41		Assumpta est Maria [1'35]
42		Optimam partem elegit [2'50]