Byrd - The Great Service and other English music
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Label: Hyperion
Cat No: CDA67937
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 1st October 2012
Contents
Works
Make ye joy to God all the earthPraise our Lord, all ye Gentiles
The Great Service
This day Christ was born 'A Carroll for Christmas Day'
Turn our captivity, O Lord
Unto the hills mine eyes I lift
Artists
The Cardinall’s MusickConductor
Andrew CarwoodWorks
Make ye joy to God all the earthPraise our Lord, all ye Gentiles
The Great Service
This day Christ was born 'A Carroll for Christmas Day'
Turn our captivity, O Lord
Unto the hills mine eyes I lift
Artists
The Cardinall’s MusickConductor
Andrew CarwoodAbout
The Great Service was described as ‘the finest unaccompanied setting of the Service in the entire repertory of English church music’ upon its discovery in 1922. Written for ten voices, it is gorgeously lavish and grand - very different from the simple, unmelismatic style demanded by the Anglican clerics. Byrd did not publish it in his lifetime.
Also recorded here are five beautiful English settings on sacred themes, but probably written for performance in the home. They are masterpieces in miniature: each work is so distinctive and demonstrates Byrd’s genius for word-painting, his typically Elizabethan wit and, of course, his imaginative handling of polyphony.
‘Recordings by Cardinall’s Musick of William Byrd’s work have been a landmark worthy of one of England’s greatest masters’ - The Guardian
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