Byrd & Britten - Choral Works
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Label: Signum
Cat No: SIGCD481
Barcode: 0635212048122
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 3rd February 2017
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William Byrd was a Catholic in the service of an Anglican monarch; Benjamin Britten was a gay pacifist in second world war England. It never hurts to remember how many of the artists we end up deifying faced some kind of bigotry in their day. This album presents the two composers as a pair of outsiders, alternating works by each in a programme that illuminates but doesn’t force the parallels. ... The singing of Jesus Cambridge isn’t always sharply defined but it is warm and breathy, topped by excellent boy choristers and best in stately slow music such as Byrd’s Ave Verum Corpus.