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Works Summary

Conductor

• John Rutter

Ensemble

• Cambridge Singers

Composer

• William Byrd (1543 - 1623)

Remarks:

"If you missed it the first time around, now's the time to indulge in this first-rate CD that includes the masterpiece Ave verum Corpus along with the intensely moving but rarely heard penitential motets Emendemus in melius and Plorans plorabit and the equally inspired English anthems Sing joyfully and Turn our captivity. Unlike the Tallis Scholars (whose Byrd recordings for the most part don't duplicate the repertoire featured here), John Rutter's Cambridge Singers produce a tone that accommodates a certain measure of vibrato and exhibits a choral sound of more "modern" color--a bit warmer than most early-music specialist groups but never lacking in clarity or definition among parts. This is singing (and direction) of the highest caliber, and you won't find more satisfying performances of Byrd's works anywhere on disc. The sound is appropriately bright, well-balanced, and resonant, and all is perfectly capped by Collegium's usual superb liner notes and neat packaging." -Classics Today (10/10)
 

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Byrd, William : Sing joyfully unto God our strength

• Conductor: John Rutter
• Ensemble: Cambridge Singers
• Period Time: Renaissance
• Form: Choral
• Studio/Live: Studio

Byrd, William : Psalmes, Songs and Sonnets...fit for Voyces or Viols :: Turn our captivity, O Lord

• Conductor: John Rutter
• Ensemble: Cambridge Singers
• Period Time: Renaissance
• Form: Choral
• Written: by 1611
• Studio/Live: Studio

Byrd, William : Psalmes, Songs and Sonnets...fit for Voyces or Viols :: Praise our Lord, all ye Gentiles

• Conductor: John Rutter
• Ensemble: Cambridge Singers
• Period Time: Renaissance
• Form: Choral
• Written: by 1611
• Studio/Live: Studio

Byrd, William : Cantiones, quae ab argumento sacrae vocantur :: Emendemus in melius

• Conductor: John Rutter
• Ensemble: Cambridge Singers
• Period Time: Renaissance
• Form: Choral
• Written: by 1575
• Studio/Live: Studio

Byrd, William : Siderum rector

• Conductor: John Rutter
• Ensemble: Cambridge Singers
• Period Time: Renaissance
• Form: Choral
• Written: by 1575
• Studio/Live: Studio

Byrd, William : Plorans plorabit

• Conductor: John Rutter
• Ensemble: Cambridge Singers
• Period Time: Renaissance
• Form: Choral
• Written: by 1605
• Studio/Live: Studio

Byrd, William : Visita, quaesumus Domine

• Conductor: John Rutter
• Ensemble: Cambridge Singers
• Period Time: Renaissance
• Form: Choral
• Written: by 1575
• Studio/Live: Studio

Byrd, William : Cantiones, quae ab argumento sacrae vocantur :: Attolite portas

• Conductor: John Rutter
• Ensemble: Cambridge Singers
• Period Time: Renaissance
• Form: Choral
• Written: by 1570
• Studio/Live: Studio

Byrd, William : Liber secundus sacrarum cantionum :: Laudibus in sanctis

• Conductor: John Rutter
• Ensemble: Cambridge Singers
• Period Time: Renaissance
• Form: Choral
• Written: by 1591
• Studio/Live: Studio

Byrd, William : Gradualia, Volume 1 :: Part 1 - Gaudeamus omnes

• Conductor: John Rutter
• Ensemble: Cambridge Singers
• Period Time: Renaissance
• Form: Choral
• Written: by 1605
• Studio/Live: Studio

Byrd, William : Gradualia, Volume 1 :: Part 2 - Ave verum corpus

• Conductor: John Rutter
• Ensemble: Cambridge Singers
• Period Time: Renaissance
• Form: Choral
• Written: 1605
• Studio/Live: Studio

Byrd, William : Gradualia, Volume 2 :: Veni, Sancte Spiritus, et emitte

• Conductor: John Rutter
• Ensemble: Cambridge Singers
• Period Time: Renaissance
• Form: Choral
• Written: by 1607
• Studio/Live: Studio

Byrd, William : Gradualia, Volume 1 :: Part 2 - Christus resurgens

• Conductor: John Rutter
• Ensemble: Cambridge Singers
• Period Time: Renaissance
• Form: Choral
• Written: by 1605
• Studio/Live: Studio

Byrd, William : Gradualia, Volume 2 :: Solve iubente Deo

• Conductor: John Rutter
• Ensemble: Cambridge Singers
• Period Time: Renaissance
• Form: Choral
• Written: by 1607
• Studio/Live: Studio

Byrd, William : Gradualia, Volume 2 :: O magnum misterium

• Conductor: John Rutter
• Ensemble: Cambridge Singers
• Period Time: Renaissance
• Form: Choral
• Written: by 1607
• Studio/Live: Studio

Byrd, William : Gradualia, Volume 2 :: Non vos relinquam orphanos

• Conductor: John Rutter
• Ensemble: Cambridge Singers
• Period Time: Renaissance
• Form: Choral
• Written: by 1607
• Studio/Live: Studio

Byrd, William : Gradualia, Volume 2 :: O quam suavis est

• Conductor: John Rutter
• Ensemble: Cambridge Singers
• Period Time: Renaissance
• Form: Choral
• Written: by 1607
• Studio/Live: Studio

Byrd, William : Gradualia, Volume 1 :: Part 1 - no 31, Iustorum animae

• Conductor: John Rutter
• Ensemble: Cambridge Singers
• Period Time: Renaissance
• Form: Choral
• Written: by 1605
• Studio/Live: Studio

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