English Catholics were cruelly persecuted during the reign of Elizabeth I: William Byrd 's motets of 1589 are the prayers of a community whose very existence was threatened.
Readings from contemporary accounts of their sufferings provide a background for performances of motets by the NONSUCH CONSORT OF VOICES directed by JOHN milsom. Tribulationes civitatum;
Ne irascaris; Vigilate; Domine secundum multitudinem;
0 quam gloriosum est regnum Producer GRAHAM DIXON