Byrd Edition Volume 2: Propers for Christmas Day

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This second volume of The Cardinall's Musick's Byrd edition is, if anything, more impressive than the first. It may be a matter of programming, for the works recorded here seem to be of a higher... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Release Date: 27th Feb 2012
Catalogue No: CDGAU178
Label: Gaudeamus
Series: Cardinall’s Musick Complete Byrd Edition
Length: 71 minutes

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Byrd: Ave regina caelorum á 5

Work length4:33

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The Cardinall’s Musick
Andrew Carwood
Recorded: 1996-11-01
Recording Venue: Fitzalan Chapel, Arundel Castle, Arundel

Byrd: O salutaris hostia a6

Work length2:43

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The Cardinall’s Musick
Andrew Carwood
Recorded: 1996-11-01
Recording Venue: Fitzalan Chapel, Arundel Castle, Arundel

Byrd: Alleluya. Confitemini Domino a3

Work length1:20

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The Cardinall’s Musick
Andrew Carwood
Recorded: 1996-11-01
Recording Venue: Fitzalan Chapel, Arundel Castle, Arundel

William Byrd, John Sheppard, William Mundy: In exitu Israel a4

Work length17:22

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The Cardinall’s Musick
Andrew Carwood
Recorded: 1996-11-01
Recording Venue: Fitzalan Chapel, Arundel Castle, Arundel

Byrd: Gradualia Book 2 (1607)

Work length20:30

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The Cardinall’s Musick
Andrew Carwood
Recorded: 1996-11-01
Recording Venue: Fitzalan Chapel, Arundel Castle, Arundel

Introit. Puer natus est nobis (a4)

Track length4:44

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Gradual. Viderunt omnes fines terrae - Alleluya. Dies sanctificatus a4

Track length3:15

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Offertory. Tui sunt caeli a4

Track length1:18

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Communion. Viderunt omnes fines terrae a4

Track length1:00

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Hodie Christus natus est a4

Track length2:12

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O admirabile commertium a4

Track length3:17

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O magnum mysterium a4

Track length4:44

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Byrd: Decantabat populus a5

Work length2:57

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The Cardinall’s Musick
Andrew Carwood
Recorded: 1996-11-01
Recording Venue: Fitzalan Chapel, Arundel Castle, Arundel

Byrd: Alleluya. Laudate pueri Dominum a3

Work length1:28

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The Cardinall’s Musick
Andrew Carwood
Recorded: 1996-11-01
Recording Venue: Fitzalan Chapel, Arundel Castle, Arundel

Byrd: Deus in adjutorium a6

Work length10:11

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The Cardinall’s Musick
Andrew Carwood
Recorded: 1996-11-01
Recording Venue: Fitzalan Chapel, Arundel Castle, Arundel

Byrd: Ad Dominum cum tribularer a8

Work length10:02

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The Cardinall’s Musick
Andrew Carwood
Recorded: 1996-11-01
Recording Venue: Fitzalan Chapel, Arundel Castle, Arundel

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2010

This second volume of The Cardinall's Musick's Byrd edition is, if anything, more impressive than the first. It may be a matter of programming, for the works recorded here seem to be of a higher overall calibre: even an obviously experimental piece such as O salutaris hostia could have been included on merit alone – yet this appears to be its first recording. Complete surveys sometimes turn up items of lesser interest, yet they also allow one to hear pieces that might have difficulty in finding a home elsewhere: witness the responsory, In exitu Israel, an intriguing collaborative effort by Byrd and his contemporaries, Mundy and Sheppard. Finally, one can judge for oneself the authenticity of works that modern scholarship has deemed doubtful (such as the opening Ave regina caelorum).
Most of the pieces here involve male altos on the top line. The centrepiece is a collection of Propers from the Gradualia of 1607, this time for the Nativity. As on their first set, Skinner's and Carwood's decision to structure each volume around a set of Propers proves an astute piece of programming, integrating shorter items as it does (such as the various Alleluia settings) within a framework that allows them their own space. The singers are on very fine form indeed. It takes confidence to carry off Osalutaris hostia, whose fierce false relations could so easily have sounded merely wilful. Only in the final, extended settings does the pace flag: the disc's last moments are rather ponderous.
That aside, this is a disc to delight Byrd-lovers everywhere.

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