Byrd Edition - 1

Byrd Edition - 1
Early Latin Church Music / Propers for Lady Mass in Advent
The Cardinall's Musick / The Frideswide Consort - Andrew Carwood & David Skinner
AS&V Gaudeamus 170

Contents:

  1. Domine quis habitabit (9 voices)
  2. Omni tempore benedic Deum (2x5 voices)
  3. Christe redemptor omnium (2x4 voices)
  4. Sermone blando (4 recorders)
  5. Miserere (4 recorders)
  6. Ne perdas cum impiis (2x5 voices)
  7. De lamentatione Jeremiae prophetae (2x5 voices)
  8. Rorate caeli (5 voices)
  9. Tollite portas - Ave Maria (5 voices)
  10. Ecce virgo (5 voices)
  11. Alma redemptoris mater (4 voices)
  12. Christe qui lux us (2x5 voices)
  13. Christe qui lux es (4 recorders)
  14. Sanctus (3 recorders)
  15. Audivi vocem de caelo (5 voices)
  16. Vide Dominum quoniam tribulor (5 voices)
  17. Peccavi super numerum (2x5 voices)

Performers: Carys Lane (soprano), Rebecca Outram (soprano), Robin Blaze (alto), Michael Lees (alto), David Gould (alto), James Gilchrist (tenor), Steven Harrold (tenor), Julian Stocker (tenor), Matthew Vine (tenor), Robert Evans (baritone), Damian O'Keeffe (baritone), Simon Birchall (bass), Robert Macdonald (bass), Michael McCarthy (bass), Jane Downer (recorder), Christine Garratt (recorder), Caroline Kershaw (recorder), Jean McCreery (recorder)

Playing time: 70'

Recording date: October & November 1996

The present selection contains mostly early choral works (what would frequently be called "motets" although not by Byrd himself) and consort transcriptsions, along with the Propers from the Gradualia of 1605 (tracks #8-10).

The next volumes:

Byrd Edition - 2
Early Latin Church Music / Propers for Christmas Day
The Cardinall's Musick - Andrew Carwood & David Skinner
AS&V Gaudeamus 178
Byrd Edition - 3
Early Latin Church Music / Propers for Epiphany
The Cardinall's Musick - Andrew Carwood & David Skinner
AS&V Gaudeamus 179
Byrd Edition - 4
Cantiones quae ab argumento sacrae vocantur
The Cardinall's Musick - Andrew Carwood & David Skinner
AS&V Gaudeamus 197
Byrd Edition - 5
The Three Masses
The Cardinall's Musick - Andrew Carwood & David Skinner
AS&V Gaudeamus 206
Byrd Edition - 6
Music for Holy Week and Easter
The Cardinall's Musick - Andrew Carwood & David Skinner
AS&V Gaudeamus 214
Byrd Edition - 7
Cantiones Sacrae 1589 / Propers for Lady Mass
The Cardinall's Musick - Andrew Carwood & David Skinner
AS&V Gaudeamus 224
Byrd Edition - 8
Cantiones Sacrae 1589 / Propers for the Purification
The Cardinall's Musick - Andrew Carwood & David Skinner
AS&V Gaudeamus 309
Byrd Edition - 9
O Sacrum Convivium: Propers for Ascension, Pentecost and Corpus Christi
The Cardinall's Musick - Andrew Carwood & David Skinner
Gaudeamus 332
Byrd: Complete Latin Church Music, vol. 10
Laudibus in sanctis - Cantiones Sacrae, 1591
The Cardinall's Musick - Andrew Carwood
Hyperion 67568

Other releases will be noted here as they appear.

A similar ensemble in another varied program containing song and more instrumental works:

The Early Byrd
Early works for voices, viols and virginals by William Byrd, Vol. 1
I Fagiolini - Robert Hollingworth / Fretwork / Sophie Yates
Chandos Chaconne 0578

There is also another series of Byrd motets, using the traditional English boy trebles and displaying a high energy level. The first volume of that:

Byrd: Cantiones Sacrae (1589)
The Choir of New College Oxford - Edward Higginbottom
CRD 3420

A few other recordings:

Byrd: Motets from Cantiones Sacrae
Sarum Consort - Mackay
AS&V Quicksilva 6211
Byrd: Cantiones Sacrae (1575)
Deller Consort - Mark Deller
Harmonia Mundi musique d'abord 1901053
Byrd: Cantiones Sacrae, 1589 & 1591
Choir of Trinity College Cambridge - Richard Marlow
Chandos 0733

Finally, a broadly-based collection performed by a modern-style chamber choir:

Byrd: Ave Verum Corpus
Anthems and Motets
Cambridge Singers - John Rutter
Collegium 110

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Todd M. McComb