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Red Byrd
12+ albums
englishClassicalbritishmedievalchoral
about
Red Byrd believe that the point of singing the music of the past is to illuminate the present, and take every opportunity to present new music. Its constant members are John Potter and Richard Wistreich. Stephen Johnson and Jason Darnell join them for music by the Notre Dame composers Leoninus and Perotinus, and for works commissioned by the group from Nigel Osborne and John Surman. Anna Maria Friman joins John and Richard, as in the photo, for English and Italian music from around 1600, and for Gavin Bryars' Third Book of Madrigals - settings of JM Synge's translations of sonnets by Petrarch. Red Byrd have visited a dozen other countries - Canada, the USA, Ireland, France, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Italy and Finland - and record for Hyperion. The group's BBC Radio 3 broadcasts have ranged from Landini via Palestrina, Dowland, Byrd and Purcell to Thea Musgrave. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
top songs
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Have Mercy upon Me, O God
1422Byrd: Have Mercy Upon Me, O God
693The Cries of London, Part 1 (MB 22 No. 67i)
444Christe Qui Lux
435Christ Rising Again
426The Cries of London, Part 2 (MB 22 No. 67ii)
407Verse Anthem: This Is the Record of John
358Triumph With Pleasant Melody
329Fantasy 2 In 1 (À 5)
2410Behold, Thou Hast Made My Days
22albums
Elizabethan Christmas Anthems
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An Introduction To Early Music
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Byrd: Consort And Keyboard Music / Songs And Anthems
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Orlando Gibbons - Fantasias and Cries
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Roger Marsh: Pierrot Lunaire
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A Golden Treasury of Elizabethan Music
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A Scottish Lady Mass
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Tomkins / Gibbons / Byrd: Consort And Keyboard Music
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Thea Musgrave: An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
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Léonin: Magister Leoninus, Vol. 1 – Sacred Music from 12th-Century Paris
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Introduction To Early Music (An)
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Magister Leoninus: Sacred Music from 12th-century Paris, Vol. 2