Byrd - The Great Service
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Choral
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The singing is neat, clear and fluid, with beautifully elastic phrasing from the two tenors. The Nunc Dimittis provides the sweetest moments in the Great Service itself —
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Special offer. Byrd: The Great Service & Anthems
Christian Wilson (organ)
Odyssean Ensemble, Colm Carey
Here is Byrd composing for Protestants: and what wondrous stuff it is – both a magnificent expression of the aesthetic liturgical leanings encouraged by Elizabeth I, and an anti-Calvinist celebration... —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2019, Critics' Choice
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William Byrd: The Great Service & English Anthems
Stephen Farr (organ), Alamire, His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts, David Skinner
absolutely marvellous singers and beautiful balance. —
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Byrd: Mass in 5 Parts and Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis (The Great Service)
The Choir of King's College, Cambridge, Sir David Willcocks
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King’s is King’s, and its steadfast traditions – of sound production as much as procedure (as in the wholly counterintuitive pointing of its psalter) – is its wonder. Finzi’s Lo, the full final... —
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William Byrd - The Great Service
with additional anthems and organ voluntaries
Robert Quinney (organ)
The Choir of Westminster Abbey, James O'Donnell
This particular work needs no introduction; indeed, some fine recordings already exist of this set, which has become a particular favourite of modern choirs. The atmosphere one associates with... —
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Renaissance Radio
Sacred Music from the Renaissance Era for Celestial and Secular Radio
The Tallis Scholars
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