William Byrd Sacred Songs
Today's programme focuses on Byrd's motets of the 1580s and, in particular, on his two volumes of Cantiones Sacrae.
When some people, close to me and of solid reputation, realized very recently that certain songs of mine had, through the carelessness of scribes, suffered some impairment, they implored me and finally got me to submit the autographs to the press ... (BYRD, 1589) gramophone records