Make ye joy to God all the earth (Byrd)
from Byrd: The Great Service & other English music (CDA67937)
2 minutes 27 seconds 1 track
‘The singing is neat, clear and fluid, with beautifully elastic phrasing from the two tenors. The Nunc dimittis provides the sweetest moments in the Great Service itself’ (BBC Music Magazine)
‘The 10 voices of the Cardinall's Musick launch into the opening of Byrd's The Great Service—'O come, let us sing unto the Lord'—with a soaring joyfulness and clarity that sustains throughout this lar ...
‘This new recording is something special. Whether it's because of the sheer experience of having sung so much of Byrd's music as to have assimilated his musical language utterly, or whether it's simpl ...