William Byrd (1543-1623): The Byrd Edition 10

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Cantiones Sacrae (1591);Gradualia (1605)

  • Artist: The Cardinall's Musick, Carwood
  • Label: Hyperion , DDD, 2006
  • Order number: 5243336
  • Release date: 1.12.2006
  1. 1 Quis est homo? Start
  2. 2 Tribulatio proxima est Start
  3. 3 Apparebit in finem Start

Salve sancta parens

  1. 4 Nr. 1 Salve sancta parens Start
  1. 5 Alleluia, Ave Maria...Virga iesse Start
  2. 6 Beata es, virgo Maria Start
  3. 7 Beata viscera Start
  4. 8 Regina caeli Start
  5. 9 Salve regina Start
  6. 10 Fac cum servo tuo Start
  7. 11 Ecce quam bonum Start
  8. 12 In manus tuas, Domine Start
  9. 13 Unam petii a Domino Start
  10. 14 Visita quaesumus, Domine Start
  11. 15 Domine, exaudi orationem meam, inclina Start
  12. 16 Laudibus in sanctis Start

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It is Byrd’s genius which first attracts musicians and listeners to his music: his fine command of invention and dramatic flow, his subtle melodies and harmonic turns mixed with a sophisticated understanding of the texts that he chose to set. Quite simply he was the finest composer of his age. For ten years now Andrew Carwood and The Cardinall’s Musick have been engaged on a project to make the definitive recordings of William Byrd’s Latin Church music. We are delighted to be able to issue this tenth disc—there will be three more to complete the series—on the Hyperion label (volumes 1 to 9 appeared on the ASV/Sanctuary imprint). The survey has now reached the highpoint of Byrd’s creative achievement that is the 1591 Cantiones Sacrae publication from which we have seven works, culminating in the athletic extravagances of Laudibus in sanctis. From the 1605 Gradualia—the thread of Byrd’s subversive liturgical legacy which has run through the whole of this series—we have a further nine motets, including the Propers for use at Lady Mass in Eastertide.

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'An ideal interpreter of this music, his insight into the music combining with his sympathy for the composer' (Fanfare, USA)

'The 12 voices sing out, individuality intact and ideal for airing the awesome polyphony of Byrd's Latin motets, both fervent and meditative' (The Times)

'Sit back and enjoy the gleaming passionate tones of the Cardinall's Musick as they take you on a tour of some of the choral finest music of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries' (Early Music Forum of Scotland News)

'Andrew Carwood and the Cardinall's Musick are distinguished exponents of this repertoire and their singing is uniformly superb and vigorously uplifting. Annotations and sound are beyond blemish in what is an issue of five-star quality' (Classical. net)

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