Tag Archives: William Byrd

With all its art, Matthew Martin's new piece creates an impression of voices speaking directly to the listener. The subject may be the Virgin Mary, but what we hear seems devilishly knowing.

With a sound that mixed plangency and purity, and an almost palpable fearlessness, the Fourth Wall Ensemble did this wonderful music justice.

The British a cappella sextet sang baroque and contemporary music that touched on death and grieving but also love and redemption.

A unique performance event that places us at a clandestine Catholic Mass in Elizabethan times, with music by William Byrd.

The Gesualdo Six, a superb young choir, brought their program of music from the golden age of English polyphony to Times Square with music of William Byrd, Thomas Tallis and more.

The latest album from the celebrated English early music vocal ensemble Stile Antico, 'In a Strange Land: Elizabethan Composers in Exile,' is a beautiful sequence with works by John Dowland, William Byrd, and their contemporaries – and a decidedly melancholy affair.

The a capella singers presented a succinct, enlightening survey of Thomas Tallis's groundbreaking 16th-century music. The concert also offered a reminder of why the composer's best-known works, such as the 'Lamentations,' remain popular after more than four centuries.

Defying the Blizzard of 2016, the combined ensemble presented early and new music celebrating Shakespeare.

While the English choir applies a constant smooth tonality to its performances, these can still feel fresh, the centuries-old music almost as much as the recent.