Byrd - Tristitia et anxietas
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Choral » Anthems & Motets
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The entire program is sung with the utmost restraint...Among the miscellaneous collections of Byrd’s music, this ranks near the top, an impressive presentation sung one voice to a part, beautifully... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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Unsurprisingly, refinement abounds, though sometimes at the expense of ‘bite’. —
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Presto Editor's Choice, January 2019
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The New York Times, Recordings of the Year 2019
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International Classical Music Awards, 2020, Nominee - Early Music
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The Sweetest Songs: Music from the Baldwin Partbooks III
Alice Hulett, Ruth Provost, David Gould, Contrapunctus, Owen Rees
They are in cracking form here, with no discernible weak link in the ensemble: honey-toned and purposeful sopranos, assertive countertenors and everything on down to match. —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2021, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Early Music
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The singers make a beautifully balanced sound with impressive fluency across each style...there is a pleasing tension between a consort blend and the vital quirkiness of individual voices...Jourdain’s... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2018, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2019, Finalist - Early Music
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Christophers’s juxtapositions are always rewarding, and The Sixteen is on ravishing form. There’s an unmannered generosity to the singing whose wide-eyed freshness enables Christophers to keep... —
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2023, Choral & Song Choice
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The Word Unspoken
Sacred Music by William Byrd & Philippe de Monte
Gallicantus, Gabriel Crouch (director)
The ensemble's view of this repertory, though hardly new, is delivered with such intelligence and rhetorical persuasiveness that the cumulative weight of their Byrd, in particular, is well-nigh... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2012, Editor's Choice
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This will delight fans of Byrd and this choir. Compelling performances (especially Ave verum) and a resonant if slightly distant sound. Some pieces though (the Mass a 5) have a surface, rather... —
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Byrd Edition Volume 7
Cantiones Sacrae, 1589 - Propers for Lady Mass from Christmas to Purification
Cardinall's Musick, Andrew Carwood
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