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Special offer. Byrd Edition Volume 5 - The Masses
RecommendedDavid Skinner
Cardinall's Musick, Andrew Carwood
The singing is technically polished, the tuning faultless and the overall sonority rounded and rich. —
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Building a Library, December 2003, First Choice
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Building a Library, June 2013, First Choice
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Baker here boldly claims Byrd's three Masses for the Westminster Cathedral Choir...Despite the choir's muscle and numbers this disc's mood is intimate...Some Byrd devotees may object to Baker's... —
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2014, Choral & Song Choice
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Byrd's repertory is familiar largely through English recordings. Departing radically from that tradition, Philippe Herreweghe renews the power of Byrd's masterpieces with sensual, intimate,... —
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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The expertise of the Stile Antico group in this repertory is not in doubt and, as always, these singers give us splendid performances. Gibbon's O Clap Your Hand, for example, has a sure-footed... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 29th July 2013
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Shortlisted - Early Music
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Building a Library, December 2003, Budget Choice
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Upheld by Stillness
RecommendedRenaissance gems and their reflections - Volume 1: Byrd
ORA, Suzi Digby (artistic director and conductor)
ORA is made up of some of the UK’s finest consort singers, sitting to my ears somewhere between The Sixteen and Tenebrae…The melancholy severity of Byrd’s original is beautifully measured, ORA... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 12th February 2016
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The Feast of St Peter at Westminster Abbey
Robert Quinney (organ), Julian Empett (bass), Raphael Taylor-Davies (treble), William Rowland (treble), Ben Turner (countertenor), Julian Stocker (tenor) & Robert Quinney (organ)
Westminster Abbey Choir, James O'Donnell
The musicians of Westminster Abbey are in top form. Crisp phrasing, firm control of line and lumionous colours create many fine moments, notably in the Palestrina and in Byrd's Gloria. Under... —
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