Choral, Byrd (composer)

An English Coronation, 1902-1953 | Edward VII, George V, George VI, Elizabeth II

Gabrieli, Paul McCreesh

Gramophone Magazine, June 2019, Editor's Choice
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Diapason d’Or, September 2019, Nouveauté
Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2019
Limelight Magazine Recordings of the Year, 2019, Nominated - Vocal
International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Choral
Gramophone Magazine, December 2019, Critics' Choice
Gramophone Awards, 2020, Finalist - Choral

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Byrd Edition Volume 13 - Infelix ego

The Cardinall's Musick, Andrew Carwood

Presto Recording of the Week, 4th October 2010
Gramophone Magazine, April 2010, Editor's Choice
Gramophone Awards, 2010, Recording of the Year

Byrd: Psalmes, Songs and Sonnets (1611)

The Sixteen, Fretwork, Harry Christophers

Record Review, 8th October 2022
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Gramophone Awards, 2023 Finalists, Finalist - Early Music

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Byrd Edition Volume 5 - The Masses

David Skinner Cardinall's Musick, Andrew Carwood

Building a Library, December 2003, First Choice
Building a Library, June 2013, First Choice
Penguin Guide, Rosette

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Fading

The Gesualdo Six, Owain Park

Gramophone Magazine, April 2020, Editor's Choice
Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020

Byrd: Complete Consort Music

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After Silence

Voces8

Gramophone Magazine, October 2020, Editor's Choice
Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020

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Phantasm, Laurence Dreyfus

Presto Recording of the Week, 13th June 2011
Gramophone Awards, 2011, Finalist - Early Music
BBC Music Magazine, August 2011, Disc of the month
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Christmas at St George's Windsor

Luke Bond (organ) St George's Chapel Choir Windsor, James Vivian

BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2019, Christmas Choice

Special offer. Byrd Edition Volume 10 - Laudibus in sanctis

The Cardinall’s Musick, Andrew Carwood

Gramophone Awards, 2007, Winner - Early Music

Spem in alium | Music for Monarchs and Magnates

The Sixteen, Harry Christophers

Gramophone Magazine, July 2026, Collection Recommendation
Gramophone Magazine, December 2003, Editor's Choice
Building a Library, October 2016, Recommended Version in English

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Byrd: The Three Masses

Westminster Cathedral Choir, Martin Baker

BBC Music Magazine, December 2014, Choral & Song Choice

Wishing Tree

The Gesualdo Six, Owain Park

In the Midst of Life | Music from the Baldwin Partbooks I

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Contrapunctus, Owen Rees

Sunday Times, 2015, Albums of the Year
BBC Music Magazine, August 2015, Choral & Song Choice
Gramophone Magazine, May 2015, Editor's Choice
Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015

Morning Star

The Gesualdo Six

BBC Music Magazine, Christmas Issue 2023, Recording of the Month

Byrd 1588: Psalmes, Sonets & Songs of Sadnes and Pietie | Psalmes, Sonets & Songs of sadnes and pietie

Alamire, Fretwork, David Skinner

BBC Music Magazine, July 2021, Choral & Song Choice
Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Early Music
Gramophone Awards, 2022, Shortlisted - Early Music
Building a Library, July 2023, Recommended Recording

Byrd: Mass For Five Voices & Other Works

The Gesualdo Six, Owain Park

Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023

Troubled Times: Music and Espionage in Renaissance England

The Queen's Six, Rose Consort of Viols

Gramophone Magazine, July 2026, Editor's Choice

An Elizabethan Christmas | Byrd, Holborne, Gibbons, Peerson, Weelkes

Helen Charlston (mezzo-soprano), Emma Walshe (soprano), Lucy Cox (soprano), Amy Lyddon (vocalist), Guy Cutting (tenor), Malachy Frame (baritone), Edmund Saddington (bass-baritone), Fretwork, Richard Boothby

Presto Recording of the Week, 3rd December 2021

Special offer. Leopold Stokowski: The Art of Orchestral Transcription

Patrick Addinall (trumpet), Cynthia Millar (ondes martenot) BBC Philharmonic, Matthias Bamert

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Special offer. Sacred and Secular Music from Six Centuries

The Hilliard Ensemble

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Stile Antico

Penguin Guide, Rosette

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Byrd: The Great Service & Anthems

Christian Wilson (organ) Odyssean Ensemble, Colm Carey

Gramophone Magazine, December 2019, Critics' Choice

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New. Pilgrimage

Harry Christophers, The Sixteen

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Special offer. In a Strange Land | Elizabethan Composers in Exile

Stile Antico

Presto Editor's Choice, January 2019
The New York Times, Recordings of the Year 2019
International Classical Music Awards, 2020, Nominee - Early Music

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The Coronation of Their Majesties King Charles III and Queen Camilla

Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023, Shortlisted - Technical Achievement
Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2023, Technical Achievement

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In Chains of Gold: The English Pre-Restoration Verse Anthem Vol. 2 | William Byrd to Edmund Hooper: Psalms and Royal Anthems

Magdalena Consort, Fretwork, His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts, with Silas Wollston (organ)

Presto Recording of the Week, 26th June 2020
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Special offer. From the vaults of Westminster Cathedral | A procession of chant & polyphony from Advent to Christmas & the Epiphany and Presentation of our Lord

Matthew Martin (organ accompaniment), & Martin Baker (organ improvisations) The Choir of Westminster Cathedral, Martin Baker

Presto Recording of the Week, 30th November 2009

Voces8

Julie Cooper, The Sixteen, Harry Christophers

BBC Music Magazine, May 2023, Choral & Song Choice

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The Deer’s Cry: The Sixteen sing Pärt, Byrd & Tallis

The Sixteen, Harry Christophers

Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016

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Robin Blaze (countertenor) Concordia

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A Choral Tapestry

Voces 8

Special offer. Mary and Elizabeth at Westminster Abbey | Sisters in Hope of the Resurrection

The Choir of Westminster Abbey, James O’Donnell

William Byrd: The Great Service & English Anthems

Stephen Farr (organ), Alamire, His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts, David Skinner

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Special offer. Epiphany at St Paul’s

Huw Williams (organ), Jonathan Arnold (baritone), Robert Rice (baritone), Flann Corcoran (treble) & Mervyn Collins (tenor), Roy Rashbrook (tenor), Timothy Jones (baritone) & Robert Rice (bass), Christopher Royall (alto), Jon English (tenor) & Julian Clarkson (bass) St Paul’s Cathedral Choir, John Scott

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English Motets

The Gesualdo Six, Owain Park

Tom and Will | Weelkes & Byrd: 400 Years

Christopher Bruerton, Edward Button, Jonathan Howard, Julian Gregory, Patrick Dunachie, Nick Ashby, King's Singers, Fretwork

BBC Music Magazine, February 2023, Choral & Song Choice
Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023

Special offer. Byrd and his Contemporaries | Motets in Paired Settings

Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, Sir David Willcocks

Penguin Guide, Rosette

Special offer. Byrd - 3 Masses

King's College Cambridge Choir, David Willcocks

Penguin Guide, Rosette

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Special offer. Puer natus est | Tudor Music for Advent & Christmas

Stile Antico

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The Sweetest Songs: Music from the Baldwin Partbooks III

Alice Hulett, Ruth Provost, David Gould, Contrapunctus, Owen Rees

Gramophone Magazine, May 2021, Editor's Choice
Gramophone Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Early Music

Special offer. Melancholia

Les Cris de Paris, Geoffroy Jourdain

Gramophone Magazine, October 2018, Editor's Choice
Gramophone Awards, 2019, Finalist - Early Music

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Special offer. Adoramus Te | Motets, songs and consort music by William Byrd and Peter Philips

Clare Wilkinson (mezzo-soprano) The Rose Consort of Viols

Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2014, Editor's Choice
Gramophone Awards, 2015, Finalist - Early Music

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The Road to Paradise

Gabrieli Consort, Paul McCreesh

BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2008, Choral Finalist
BBC Music Magazine, July 2007, Choral & Song Choice

Special offer. The Phoenix Rising | The Carnegie Trust & the revival of Tudor Church Music

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Presto Recording of the Week, 29th July 2013
Gramophone Awards, 2014, Shortlisted - Early Music

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Special offer. The King's Singers - GOLD

The King's Singers

Gramophone Magazine, December 2017, Editor's Choice
Grammy Awards, 61st Awards (2019), Nominee - Classical Compendium

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New. English Anthems, Hymns & Laments from Cambridge

Choir of Clare College Cambridge, Timothy Brown

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Special offer. The Triumphs of Oriana | Madrigals, compiled by Thomas Morley, 1601

David Miller (lute) I Fagiolini, Robert Hollingworth

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Special offer. Exultate Deo

The Choir of Westminster Cathedral, James O'Donnell (The Master of Music)

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Attende Domine: Music For Lent & Passiontide

The Bevan Family Consort, Graham Ross

BBC Music Magazine, May 2025, Choral & Song Choice

William Byrd - The Great Service | with additional anthems and organ voluntaries

Robert Quinney (organ) The Choir of Westminster Abbey, James O'Donnell

Special offer. Byrd Edition Volume 11 - Hodie Simon Petrus

The Cardinall’s Musick, Andrew Carwood

Gramophone Awards, 2009, Finalist - Early Music

Byrd 1589: Songs of sundrie natures

Jacob Heringman (lute), Lynda Sayce, Clare Wilkinson (contralto), Fretwork (early music ensemble), Martha McLorinan (mezzo-soprano), Alamire, David Skinner

Gramophone Magazine, June 2023, Editor's Choice

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Special offer. Very Best of English Song

Dame Janet Baker (mezzo), Gerald Moore (piano), Sir Thomas Allen (baritone), Geoffrey Parsons (piano), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), David Willison (piano), Ian Partridge (tenor), Janet Craxton (piano), Ian Bostridge (tenor), Julius Drake (piano), Jonathan Lemalu (bass-baritone), Roger Vignoles (piano), Robert Lloyd (bass), Nina Walker (piano), Frederick Harvey (baritone), Jack Byfield (piano), Sir Philip Ledger (piano), Robert Tear (tenor), André Previn (piano), Fenella Fielding, Michael Flanders, Alfred Deller (countertenor), Desmond Dupré (lute), Michael Chance (countertenor), Christopher Wilson (lute), Dame Emma Kirkby (soprano), Anthony Rooley (lute), Charles Daniels (tenor), David Miller (lute), Nancy Argenta (soprano), Nigel North (lute), John Toll (harpsichord), Paul Nicholson (harpsichord), Richard Boothby (lute), Owen Brannigan (bass), Ernest Lush (piano), Ian Wallace (bass-baritone), Donald Swann (piano), Michael Flanders & Donald Swann, Alan Civil (horn), John Shirley-Quirk (bass-baritone), Wilfred Brown (tenor), Benjamin Luxon (bass-baritone), John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Pauline Lowbury (violin), John Noble (baritone) Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields, Fretwork, London Symphony Orchestra, Northern Sinfonia, Choir of King's College Cambridge, English Chamber Orchestra, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Britten Sinfonia, Liverpool Philharmonic Choir, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Sir Neville Marriner, Sir John Barbirolli, Sir Simon Rattle, Sir David Willcocks, Christopher Finzi, Norman Del Mar, Vernon Handley, Nicholas Cleobury, Sir Charles Groves, Bernard Haitink, George Weldon

Building a Library, June 2018, Also recommended
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Special offer. Byrd: Complete Harpsichord and Organ Music

Pieter-Jan Belder (harpsichord/virginal/organ)

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New. Pilgrimage

Harry Christophers & The Sixteen

Thomas Tallis - Complete Works Volume 9 | Instrumental Music and Songs

Andrew Benson-Williams (organ), Laurence Cummings (virginals), Lynda Sayce (lute), Stephen Taylor (counter tenor) Charivari Agréable, Chapelle du Roi, Alistair Dixon

Gramophone Magazine, December 2004, Editor's Choice

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Libera nos: The Cry of the Oppressed

Contrapunctus, Owen Rees (director)

Gramophone Awards, 2014, Shortlisted - Early Music