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William Byrd

July 2024

  • Mishka Rushdie Momen.

    Mishka Rushdie Momen: Reformation album review – beguiling and beautiful performances make the past present

    The British pianist plays 16th-century keyboard works on a modern grand, making them feel fresh and new with a virtuosic light touch

June 2024

  • LOW RES: Mishka Rushdie Momen. Performing at the 2023 Trasimeno Music Festival in Perugia, Italy

    ‘Dazzling, beautiful and vital’ – Mishka Rushdie Momen on Tudor keyboard masterpieces

    The dislocations of lockdown led the pianist to the Renaissance composer William Byrd. She never looked back

January 2024

  • Anna Prohaska sings with the viol consort Phantasm at the Wigmore Hall.

    Anna Prohaska/Phantasm review – her tone is a mixture of silk and silver

    Music by William Byrd and his Renaissance contemporaries was exquisitely performed by the viol group, with the versatile and sensitive soprano matching their quiet intensity

July 2023

  • Austere beauty … Byrd at the Tower.

    Byrd at the Tower review – austere beauty in dark times as Tudor music and modern poetry unite

    The Odyssean Ensemble bring sublime purity of line and clarity of counterpoint to Byrd’s masses in this evocative venue, with contemporary poetry by Afghan women lending a powerful counterpoint

April 2023

  • Radiance … The Sixteen at Hereford Cathedral.

    The Sixteen: Choral Pilgrimage review – Byrd celebration hits the heights

    Catholic recusant William Byrd’s genius was meticulously and resonantly brought to life, with two thoughtful and effective tribute pieces by Dobrinka Tabakova

January 2023

  • The Gesualdo Six and Fretwork celebrating Byrd’s Mass for 5 Voices in the crypt at St Martin's in the Field<br>The Gesualdo Six and Fretwork collaborate for the first time in a theatrical seance by candlelight as a limited audience roams freely around a costumed and staged performance in the intimate Crypt of St Martin’s, breaking bread and celebrating Byrd’s Mass for 5 Voices as he intended: sung for private worship in strictest secrecy. Created and Directed by Bill Barclay on Thursday 26 January 2023 Photo by Mark Allan

    Secret Byrd review – cloak-and-dagger concert hails a musical genius

  • classical music diet illustration for Observer New Review by Observer Design

    The Observer's January cultural diet
    Feed your soul: the 31-day classical music diet for January

April 2020

  • William Byrd

    Lockdown culture
    Singing in secret: how William Byrd created his best work in isolation

    Four hundred years ago, it wasn’t a pandemic that forced the English composer into hiding, but his religious faith.

March 2019

  • Sarah Tynan in ENO’s The Merry Widow.

    The week in classical: The Merry Widow; Elizabeth I; Odyssean Ensemble – review

    Sarah Tynan’s star turn in The Merry Widow lifts a panto-style production let down by smutty jokes

February 2017

  • Jesus College Cambridge choir

    Byrd/Britten: Choral Music CD review – warm sounds, if not always sharply defined

April 2016

  • The Sixteen at Christchurch college in Oxford, 2015 Press image from claire.willis@eleventenths.co.uk

    The Sixteen/Christophers review – timeless Estonian and Tudor works

    This carefully conceived programme of choral music reveals the connections between Arvo Pärt and Renaissance composers William Byrd and Thomas Tallis

January 2016

  • LOW RES the sixteen with harry christophers

    Pärt, Byrd: The Deer’s Cry CD review – irresistible choral works

    The Sixteen excel in this compelling sacred music by Byrd and Pärt

November 2012

  • William Byrd: The Great Service – review

    The Cardinall's Musick bring a soaring joyfulness and clarity to this large-scale and elaborate work, writes Fiona Maddocks

July 2012

  • Byrd and the Tudor revival: Haec Dies – review

    This juxtaposition of Byrd's great five-part mass with Tudor-inspired works by Holst, Bax, Britten and co fascinates Nicholas Kenyon

June 2012

  • Byrd: The Great Service – review

    This full-scale version of Byrd's work, including two five-part choirs, is a fascinating piece of musical conjecture, writes Andrew Clements

March 2012

  • Cardinall's Musick/Andrew Carwood – review

    After the landmark CDs, it was wonderful to hear Byrd's vibrant, gutsy church music live on this compelling tour, writes Rian Evans

June 2010

  • Philips: Cantiones Sacrae 1612

    Peter Philips's Cantiones Sacrae is a compendium of musical influences that were circulating in western Europe towards the end of the 16th century, writes Andrew Clements

February 2010

  • The Sixteen/Christophers: Sheppard: Media Vita in Morte Sumus; Byrd: Infelix Ego; Tallis: Miserere Nostri etc

    The Sixteen's latest sequence has plenty of power and beauty, says Andrew Clements

December 2009

  • Lincolnshire Cathedral

    Tom Service on classical music
    Choral evensong is one of England's richest traditions

    Tom Service: I didn't think I liked its austerity, until the sound of a few choristers in Lincoln Cathedral created a minor musical miracle

December 2006

  • Music blog
    The perfect classical Christmas playlist

    Everyone's sick of carols - so why not listen to something different this Christmas? Send in your recommendations.

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