Latest News: Classical, Byrd (composer)
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Interview,
Owain Park on performing and dramatising Byrd's sacred music 17th July 2023The 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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Composer Guides,
William Byrd 4th July 2023A 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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Interview,
David Skinner on Byrd's 'Songs of Sundrie Natures' 18th April 2023The 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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Presto Music Classical Podcast,
Episode 35: Tom & Will (& Jimmy & Roddy) – Tudor Anniversaries with Fretwork and The King's Singers 2nd April 2023Patrick 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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Recording of the Week,
Byrd and Bull from Kit Armstrong 17th December 2021The 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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Recording of the Week,
Byrd and more from the Magdalena Consort and friends 26th June 2020The 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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Composer Guides,
William Byrd & Thomas Tallis A Tudor double-whammy - David listens to recordings of William Byrd and Thomas Tallis.
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Recording of the Week,
Byrd’s Complete Consort Music 13th June 2011The 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.