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The Nunc dimittis—a tract for the Feast of the Purification—is not a setting intended for Evensong or Compline, but is taken from the Gradualia, a great cycle of liturgical settings for the Catholic calendar from Advent to Trinity, published in two volumes in 1605 and 1607. In the passage beginning Quia viderunt Byrd employs some false relations, and the bell-like descending scales at Lumen, immediately inverted in the other parts, reflect earlier figures at saltare tuum and quod parasti.
from notes by Phillip Borg-Wheeler © 2016
Recordings
 Byrd & Britten: Choral worksStudio Master: SIGCD481Download onlyStudio Master FLAC & ALAC downloads available  Jesus College Choir continues its much-praised series of recordings with a new album of works by Britten and Byrd.» More |
 Byrd: Gradualia - The Marian MassesCDH55047Archive Service  ‘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 ... ‘The singing is exquisite, the balance always right, the intensity of devotion always present’ (Fanfare, USA)» More |
 Byrd: Playing Elizabeth's TuneGIMDN902This album is not available for download  NTSC FORMAT DVD. Filmed performances of sacred music by William Byrd together with a documentary on the troubled times that produced some of the most intimate and passionate sacred music ever written.» More |
 Byrd: Playing Elizabeth's TuneGIMDP901This album is not available for download PAL FORMAT DVD. Filmed performances of sacred music by William Byrd together with a documentary on the troubled times that produced some of the most intimate and passionate sacred music ever written.» More |
 Vigilate!Studio Master: SDG720Download onlyStudio Master FLAC & ALAC downloads available  This album, subtitled 'English polyphony in dangerous times', brings together six English composers whose combined careers span more than a century—Byrd, Tallis, Morley, Philips, White and Tomkins, undercover Catholic composers revelling in clande ...» More |
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