Under the direction of Sir Richard Runciman Terry
Late Tudor Church Music, sung by The Wireless Singers

'One would like to call this week's programme "The zenith of Tudor Church Music", as it concludes with Byrd's magnificent Mass for five voices which has been described as an epoch-making work, to be ranked in importance (i.e., as a landmark) with The Matthew Passion, "The Ninth Symphony" and the Nibelungen Ring.
'Byrd's five-part Mass sums up the Tudor polyphonic period just as Palestrina's Missa Papee Marcelli sums up the Italian. Great men (writing great music) followed both Byrd and Palestrina, but the two works I have mentioned still stand as high-water mark in their respective epochs.
'Tye's Eugebone falls very little short of that high-water mark. If it lacks the grave sweetness of Tallis's Sine nomine, it makes up in the brilliancy of its part-writing and the broad and spacious lines on which it is conceived.
'The title "zenith" is precluded by the inclusion in the week's programmes of several works of a more or less tentative character - I mean the motets of Wilbye and others. Here we have attempts at an independent instrumental accompaniment allied with a perfect vocal technique.
'Later in this series a week will be devoted to English Church music. But the present examples are included as they are contemporaneous with most of the Latin music that is being performed.' (R.R.T.)