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from notes by William McVicker © 2002
Byrd & Britten: Choral works Jesus College Choir continues its much-praised series of recordings with a new album of works by Britten and Byrd.» More |
Byrd: Ave verum corpus & other sacred music This recording presents a selection of fifteen of the 150 or so Latin motets and three of the dozens of English anthems that, between them, form the larger part of the life’s work of William Byrd (1543-1623), the greatest English composer of his e ...» More |
Byrd: The Great Service & other English music The Cardinall’s Musick are acknowledged as the premier performers of Byrd’s choral music. Their recordings of his Latin church music received the highest possible critical acclaim and the final volume won Gramophone Record of the Year. Now they tu ...» More |
Weelkes & Byrd: Tom + Will William Byrd and Thomas Weelkes died in 1623, Byrd in his ninth decade, Weelkes barely half that. Eighteen works, mainly secular in nature and several relatively unknown today, are presented here, along with two inspired new compositions from Rode ...» More |