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Release Date: Friday 26 June 2020
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Leading performers of 17th-century music the Magdalena Consort, Fretwork and His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts combine forces under the artistic direction of William Hunt for their second release exploring the English Pre-Restoration Verse Anthem - Psalms and Royal Anthems, particularly those of William Byrd.
More than any composer before him, William Byrd catered prolifically to a wide variety of musicians. Connoisseurs of Latin motets at home and abroad, troupes of boy actors with their viols and their unbroken voices, solo keyboard players, the choirs of the established English church, and the underground ensembles of Catholic households where mass was celebrated in secret- performers of all these kinds could look to Byrd for quantities, in some cases vast, of music of the highest excellence.
" Not only does it offer music by Byrd not otherwise available on record, it also introduces us to the music of Edward Hooper - a real find. It does so, too, with performances unlikely to be bettered of their kind. The recording, especially as heard in 24-bit, does music and performances full justice." MusicWeb recommended June 2020
William Byrd
1. Hear my prayer
2. O Lord, rebuke me not
3. Have mercy upon me, O God
4. Fantasia (No. 46)
5. Teach me, O Lord
6. Christ rising again
7. I will give laud
8. Look and bow down
John Bull
9. Almighty God, which by the leading of a star
10. Fantasia (No. a 16)
11. Deliver me, O God
Benjamin Cosyn
12. Voluntary (No. 3)
Thomas Morley
13. Out of the deep
14. Voluntary (No. 1) - Cosyn
Edmund Hooper
15. Hearken ye nations
John Mundy
16. Sing joyfully
17. O God of gods - Hooper