Byrd - Ut, re, mi, fa, sol, la in G major

Glen Wilson squares up to the Fantasias...If his playing isn't always free, it's eagle-eyed in its attention to detail: ornaments crackle with exactitude and the counterpoint is lucidly deconstructed... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2012, 4 out of 5 stars More…

A lovely selection of Byrd's keyboard music, sensitively performed by Martin Souter on an authentic virginals in the Ashmolean Museum; these modest, small-scale works (many dedicated to aristocratic... — David Smith, Presto Music, October 2014 More…

Elizabeth Farr…. plays this music with a winning lack of fussiness…. The flourishes that abound in these pieces sound alternately charming and sweeping under Ms. Farr’s fingers. — Audiophile Audition More…

For non-completists, Farr ’s snapshot is adroitly chosen. Played with trenchant ebullience, to close there’s Byrd’s own arrangement (probably) of his Marian motet O quam gloriosum est regnum...Characteristic... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2023, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…