The first of 13 programmes in which William Byrd's settings of the Mass Proper in his Gradualia of 1605 and 1607 are performed in liturgical sequence with settings of the Ordinary of the Mass by Byrd and by continental composers. Christmas Day
Palestrina Missa Hodie Christus natus est, a 8 Byrd Mass Proper a 4 LONDON LASSUS ENSEMBLE cornetts and sackbuts
MARGARET PHILLIPS , ANDREW PARROTT (organ), conductor CLIVE WEARING