William Byrd: Gradualia - The Marian Masses (The William Byrd Choir, dir. Gavin Turner) (Helios)

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"If you didn't get this disc first time round, don't hesitate to buy it now" (Early Music Review) "The singing is exquisite, the balance always right, the intensity of devotion always present" (Fanfare, USA) "Byrd at his most impressive and sublime here in the glorious Nunc dimittis and in the delicate intricacy of Optimam partem. The recording and performances are superb." (BBC Music Magazine Top 1000 CDs Guide)

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TRACKLIST


WILLIAM BYRD (1539/40-1623)

GRADUALIA The Marian Masses

01 Suscepimus Deus 2'22
02 Iustitia 0'38
03 Magnus Dominus 1'58
04 Sicut audivimus 1'14
05 Alleluia 0'40
06 Senex puerum 1'42
07 Nunc dimittis servum tuum 5'34
08 Responsum accepit Simeon 4'07
09 Salve sancta parens 1'29
10 Alleluia 0'31
11 Eructavit cor meum 1'53
12 Benedicta et venerabilis 2'27
13 Alleluia 0'42
14 Felix es, sacra Virgo 1'30
15 Beata es, Virgo Maria 2'01
16 Alleluia 0'52
17 Beata viscera 1'43
18 Alleluia 0'40
19 Rorate caeli 1'27
20 Benedixisti Domine 2'11
21 Tollite portas 2'10
22 Ave Maria 1'23
23 Alleluia 0'48
24 Ecce virgo concipiet 2'07
25 Alleluia 0'30
26 Vultum tuum 2'22
27 Alleluia 0'47
28 Speciosus forma 3'04
29 Alleluia 0'38
30 Post partum 2'56
31 Felix namque es 1'41
32 Alleluia - Ave Maria 1'57
33 Virga lesse 2'22
34 Gaude Maria 3'41
35 Diffusa est gratia 1'38
36 Propter veritatem 2'42
37 Alleluia 0'31
38 Vultum tuum 3'55
39 Gaudeamus omnes 2'20
40 Assumpta est Maria 1'28
41 Assumpta est Maria 1'35
42 Optimam partem elegit 2'50



THE WILLIAM BYRD CHOIR
DEBORAH ROBERTS soprano
DAVID CORDIER, MICHAEL CHANCE countertenors
JOHN MARK AINSLEY tenor, MICHAEL GEORGE bass
GAVIN TURNER director

Recorded in Rosslyn Hill, Chapel, Hampstead, on 27 28 February, 1 March 1990
Recording Engineer ANTONY HOWELL - Recording Producer GARY COLE
Front Design TERRY SHANNON
Front illustration, Adoration in the Woods (delail) by Filippo Lippi (c 1406-1469)
Executive Producers CECILE KELLY, EDWARD PERRY

® Hyperion Records Limited, Landon, 1990
© Hyperion Records Limited, London, 2002 (Originally issued on Hyperion CDA66451)
Helios CDH55047


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