Byrd: The Great Service

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WILLIAM BYRD
Byrd: The Great Service
The Choir of Westminster Abbey / Robert Quinney (organ) / James O'Donnell (conductor)

[ Hyperion / CD ]

Release Date: Tuesday 20 December 2005

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'The Choir of Westminster Abbey revels in the score's complexity, animating the dialogues within its ten-part texture with clarity and conviction … this disc shows us clearly why the Great Service ranks as Byrd's definitive Anglican music' - BBC Music Magazine

'The Choir of Westminster Abbey revels in the score's complexity, animating the dialogues within its ten-part texture with clarity and conviction … this disc shows us clearly why the Great Service ranks as Byrd's definitive Anglican music'
- BBC Music Magazine

'Byrd's Great Service was not discovered until the 1920s, and is one of his most magnificent creations, awesome in scale and hugely demanding, with its intricate and complex 10-part polyphony … For those wanting larger forces and boys' voices in the treble parts, this is a mightily impressive option. The abbey's 'authentic' cathedral acoustic is a bonus, lending even more grandeur'
- The Sunday Times

Tracks:

ANTHEM O Lord, make thy servant Elizabeth [3'01]

Matins
THE GREAT SERVICE Venite [5'02]
THE GREAT SERVICE Te Deum [8'34]
THE GREAT SERVICE Benedictus [8'40]
THE GREAT SERVICE Kyrie [1'01]
THE GREAT SERVICE Creed [5'45]
ANTHEM Prevent us, O Lord [2'33]
ORGAN VOLUNTARY Voluntary for my Lady Nevell [4'04]

Evensong
ANTHEM How long shall mine enemies? [3'23]
THE GREAT SERVICE Magnificat [9'25]
THE GREAT SERVICE Nunc dimittis [4'54]
ANTHEM Out of the deep [5'26]
ORGAN VOLUNTARY Fancy for my Lady Nevell [5'32]

ANTHEM Christ rising again from the dead [5'51]
ANTHEM Sing joyfully [3'00]