William Byrd, William Byrd Choir, Gavin Turner - Gradualia: The Marian Masses
STYLE: Classical RATING OUR PRODUCT CODE: 5279- LABEL: CDH55047 FORMAT: CD Album ITEMS: 1
Reviewed by Steven Whitehead
This is a re-issue from 1990 of material that is some 400 years old but has had to wait all this time for technology to catch up. It is a collection of segments from Masses that can be programmed into your CD player to reconstruct various liturgies for different festivals. Read the helpful booklet for more details. The William Byrd Choir sing beautifully and perhaps get close to what our ancestors would have heard, had they been Catholics meeting undercover to continue their observances.
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