The Great Service (Byrd)
from Byrd: The Great Service & other works (CDA67533)
1 Venite [5'02]
2 Te Deum [8'34]
3 Benedictus [8'40]
4 Kyrie [1'01]
5 Creed [5'45]
6 Magnificat [9'25]
7 Nunc dimittis [4'54]
43 minutes 21 seconds 7 tracks
‘A very polished and confident performance. Quinney gives equally fluent renditions of the Voluntary and 'Fancie for My Lady Nevell', completing a disc that fulfils its brief with distinction’ (Gramop ...
‘The Choir of Westminster Abbey revels in the score's complexity, animating the dialogues within its ten-part texture with clarity and conviction … this disc shows us clearly why the Great Ser ...
‘Byrd's Great Service was not discovered until the 1920s, and is one of his most magnificent creations, awesome in scale and hugely demanding, with its intricate and complex 10-part polyphony … F ...