Fretwork, David Skinner & Alamire – Byrd 158 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:02:19 minutes | 2,22 GB | Genre: Classical
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Byrd’s first song collection was published in 1588. In the following year he writes that he had ‘bene encouraged thereby, to take further paines therein, and to make the pertaker thereof, because I would shew my selfe gratefull to thee for thy loue, and desirous to delight thee with varietie, whereof (in my opinion) no Science is more plentifully adorned then Musicke.’
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Alamire – Byrd 1588: Psalmes, Sonets & Songs of Sadnes and Pietie (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:37:11 minutes | 2,64 GB | Genre: Classical
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Following Tallis and Byrd’s first publishing venture of Cantiones Sacrae of 1575, Byrd waited some 13 years to again wake the presses with his compositions. His 1588 Psalmes, Sonets, & songs of sadnes and pietie was his first solo publication, for which Elizabeth’s Lord Chancellor (and notable favourite), Sir Christopher Hatton, acted as patron.
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Alamire, David Skinner – John Sheppard: Media Vita in Morte Sumus (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 16:28 minutes | 300 MB | Genre: Classical
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When the Renaissance composer John Sheppard (c.1515-1558) shines he is beyond glorious, and the monumental six-part Media vita in morte sumus is undoubtedly among the greatest of his creations.
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