The Great Service
BYRD William (1543-1623)
The Cardinall's Musick - Andrew Carwood (Dir)
Label : Hyperion Records
Artikelnummer: CDA67937
1 CD
CHF 19.50
The Great Service was described as "the finest unaccompanied setting of the Service in the entire repertory of English church music" upon its discovery in 1922. Written for ten voices, it is gorgeously lavish and grand - very different to the simple, unmelismatic style demanded by the Anglican clerics. Byrd did not publish it in his lifetime.