Browse: Byrd - Fantasia in A minor

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…

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…

This disc is a benchmark - of interpretation, scholarship and programming. Both its interpretation and its dramatic re-contextualization of Byrd make even the utterly familiar (e.g. 'O Lord make... — BBC Music Magazine, 5 out of 5 stars More…