Browse: Byrd - Mass for four voices

There will be many recordings of Byrd's music in this 400th anniversary year of his death, but few will match the superb balance and poise of these performances from Stile Antico. — BBC Music Magazine, March 2023, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Filsell, Haigh and Turner were all educated in England so they understand the choral tradition well, though with more than 30 singers, the impressive effects tend to come in the more monumental... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2024, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 3 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Baker here boldly claims Byrd's three Masses for the Westminster Cathedral Choir...Despite the choir's muscle and numbers this disc's mood is intimate...Some Byrd devotees may object to Baker's... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2014, 5 out of 5 stars More…

In 2002 The Tallis Scholars recorded an audio-visual Byrd-fest in three parts: a concert- format sequence of some of his sacred music in the atmospheric setting of Tewkesbury Abbey; a documentary... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Perhaps the ideal consort for this repertoire, the Marians bring an intimate, individually passionate flavour to Byrd’s Latin works. Nimble, lively vocal colour, warmth in the soprano (all too... — Choir & Organ, May 2020, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Byrd was a fervently committed Roman Catholic and he helped enormously to enrich the music of the English Church. His Mass settings were made for the many recusant Catholic worshippers who held... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…