Byrd, William > Yates, Sophie

Elizabethan Keyboard Music / Sophie Yates

1 CD / Chandos Records / 2003-06-24

Works: Antony Holborne: The New-Yeeres Gift; Orlando Gibbons: Pavane and Galliard "Lord Salisbury"; The Queen's Command, for keyboard, MB28; William Byrd: The March before the Battle, or, The Earl of Oxford...
Performers: Yates, Sophie

"Sophie Yates plays with exceptional poise - ornaments are impeccably measured and fast figurations are technically flawless - yet such polish doesn't mask expressiveness. She...continue...

The Caged Byrd / I Fagiolini, Concordia, Sophie Yates

1 CD / Chandos Records / 1997-09-16

Works: William Byrd: Liber primus sacrarum cantionum; Crowned with flow'rs and lilies, consort song for voice & viols; Pavan & Galliard ("Sir William Petre"), for keyboard in G minor no 2, MB 3; O quam glor...
Performers: Blaze, Robin; Brook, Roderick; Crookes, Anna; Lane, Carys-Anne; Roberts, Richard Wyn; Smith, Nicholas Hurndall; Vocal], Matthew Brook [Bass-Baritone; Williams, Roderick [Bass-Baritone Vocal]; Wilson,...
Conductors: Hollingworth, Robert;
Ensemble: Concordia Orchestra; I Fagiolini

"...What a pleasure to run into [I Fagiolini] again in Byrd, the mother's milk of English choral singers...the disc is a pleasure. This is a...continue...

The Early Byrd Vol 1 / I Fagiolini, Fretwork, Sophie Yates

1 CD / Chandos Records / 1995-05-23

Works: William Byrd: Attollite portas (also anthems; Triumph with pleasant melody voices, consort song for voices & 4 viols; O Lord, how vain; All in a garden green, MB 56; Domine secundum actum meum, motet...
Performers: Blaze, Robin; Crookes, Anna; Lane, Carys-Anne; Roberts, Richard Wyn; Yates, Sophie
Conductors:
Ensemble: Fretwork

Gramophone Classical Music Guide
This disc adopts an imaginative approach to programming Byrd's music by presenting works in different genres grouped together to demonstrate a single...continue...