The wealth of music that sprang from William Byrd, a Catholic composer in Elizabeth I’s Protestant England, never ceases to amaze. Stephen Cleobury, director of music at King’s College, Cambridge, has ...

On Dec. 12, the Boston Early Music Festival presents, for the 39th consecutive year, a concert by the Tallis Scholars. The program honors the group’s namesake by way of artistic patrimony, with a ...

William Byrd’s music to Latin texts, written in the turbulent religious times of Elizabethan England, was probably intended for small-scale performance in recusant circles. So this intimate account of ...

Rorate coeli King's College Choir, Cambridge Stephen Cleobury, Conductor William Byrd, Composer Vigilate William Byrd, Composer King's College Choir, Cambridge Stephen Cleobury, Conductor Hodie beata ...

Byrd was in his sixties when he composed most of the motets heard on this disc, works published for the outlawed Catholic liturgy in 1605, the year of gunpowder, treason and popish plot. It would be ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Four popular composers explain how this Englishman’s ideas ricochet through their own works today. By David Allen The works of William Byrd hold ...

Rediscovered in the library of Durham Cathedral in 1922, the exact circumstances of the composition of what was immediately dubbed William Byrd's "Great Service" remain unknown. The sheer scale of the ...

Laetentur coeli Durham Cathedral Choir Durham Cathedral Choir William Byrd, Composer James Lancelot, Conductor Laudibus in sanctis William Byrd, Composer Durham Cathedral Choir James Lancelot, ...