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Piers Connor Kennedy on Nowel el el
11th Dec 2025
The composer and singer talks about his new works featured on Ensemble Pro Victoria's latest album, Nowel.
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Nowel: Advent & Beyond
Ensemble Pro Victoria, Toby Ward
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Mishka Rushdie Momen - Reformation
5th Jul 2024
Mishka Rushdie Momen makes a highly enjoyable Hyperion debut, playing Renaissance keyboard music on a modern Steinway grand piano, with subtlety of tone and phrasing that brings new perspective to the music of Byrd, Sweelinck, Gibbons and Bull.
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Owain Park on performing and dramatising Byrd's sacred music
17th Jul 2023
The Artistic Director of The Gesualdo Six talks about the group's new anniversary-year album of Byrd, and their exciting new staged performance based around the music of Catholicism-in-hiding during England's Tudor era.
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William Byrd
4th Jul 2023
A selection of some of the best recent recordings of music by the giant of English early music, for the 400th anniversary of his death.
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David Skinner on Byrd's 'Songs of Sundrie Natures'
18th Apr 2023
The artistic director of Alamire talks about his new recording with Fretwork of Byrd's 1589 collection of church and domestic songs, complementing an album from two years ago in which they explored the previous volume from 1588.
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Episode 35: Tom & Will (& Jimmy & Roddy) – Tudor Anniversaries with Fretwork and The King's Singers
2nd Apr 2023
Patrick Dunachie of The King's Singers and Richard Boothby of Fretwork talk about the madrigals and instrumental music of two Tudor titans.
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Byrd and Bull from Kit Armstrong
17th Dec 2021
The American pianist makes the case for considering the two Tudor virginalists William Byrd and John Bull as the founding fathers of the solo piano genre.
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The Visionaries of Piano Music
Kit Armstrong (piano)
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Byrd and more from the Magdalena Consort and friends
26th Jun 2020
The Magdalena Consort, Fretwork and His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts join forces for a second volume of English verse-anthems presented in glorious instrumental Technicolor.
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William Byrd & Thomas Tallis
5th Sep 2014
A Tudor double-whammy - David listens to recordings of William Byrd and Thomas Tallis.
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Byrd’s Complete Consort Music
13th Jun 2011
The Gramophone Award-winning viol consort Phantasm brings sweetness and sensuality to the English composer’s fantasias, In Nomines and pavans and galliards on Linn Records.
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Byrd: Complete Consort Music
Phantasm, Laurence Dreyfus
