William Byrd - Mass for 5 voices & 7 Motets

William Byrd - Mass for 5 voices & 7 Motets from Gradualia
Deller Consort
Harmonia mundi "Deller Recordings" DR 213 [LP]
Harmonia mundi (Ariola) HM 30.706 [LP, stereo, German market]

Contents:

    William Byrd: Mass for five voices
  1. Kyrie
  2. Gloria
  3. Credo
  4. Sanctus
  5. Benedictus
  6. Agnus Dei

  7. ----
    William Byrd: Motets
  8. Miserere mei
  9. Ne irascaris Domine. Civitas sanctis tui
  10. Laetentur coeli
  11. Ave Maria
  12. Alleluia, cognoverunt discipuli
  13. Christe qui lux est et dies

Playing time: 22' 58" + 24' 34" = 47' 32"

Performers:
[1]-[6] Deller Consort [Helen Sheppard (soprano), Alfred Deller (counter-tenor), Neil Jenkins (tenor), John Buttrey (tenor), Maurice Bevan (baritone)]
[7]-[12] Deller Consort [Helen Sheppard (soprano), Alfred Deller (counter-tenor), Neil Jenkins (tenor), Maurice Bevan (baritone), Simon Deller (baritone)]

Recording site and date:
Unknown [1967 or prior]

Compilation:
Harmonia mundi HM 211 / 213 [LP] William Byrd - Intégrale des messes - motets - the complete mass

Excerpts:
[1]-[6] Deller Recordings DR 2110/11 [LPx2] William Byrd - Messe à trois, quatre et cinq voix &am; Motets
[1]-[6] Vanguard "The Bach Guild" Historical Antholgy of Music HM 7 SD [LP] William Byrd - Mass for 5 voices & Motets from Gradualia
[1]-[6] Harmonia Mundi "Musique d'abord" HMA 190 211 [CD] Byrd: Masses for 3, 4, and 5 Voices

Reviewed in:
Diapason (#-p.): 126-19 (apr.1968)
Gramophone (Vol./#-p.):
Fanfare (Vol./#-p.):

Comments:
Information from owned LPs box (Harmonia mundi HM 211 / 213)

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Pierre-F. Roberge