1605: Treason & Discord [Import]

William [Composer] Byrd (Composer), Richard (Deering) Dering (Composer), John Dowland (Composer), Peter [composer] Philips (Composer), Francis Pott (Composer), Thomas Weelkes (Composer), Concordia (Performer), Sarah Baldock (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Concordia, Sarah Baldock
• Composer: William [Composer] Byrd, Richard (Deering) Dering, John Dowland, Peter [composer] Philips, Francis Pott, et al.
• Audio CD (June 28, 2005)
• SPARS Code: DDD
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Signum UK
• ASIN: B0009KIYCM
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #440,989 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Selective Tastes, October 8, 2005

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Pelham G. Boyer "Chorister" (Rhode Island) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 1605: Treason & Discord (Audio CD)

This is a heavily "themed" collection, the theme being the English social-religious crisis of 1605. The thematic culmination is "Master Tresham," a contemporary (drawn from period sources) concert piece--evocative, original, striking, doubtless powerful in concert, but listenable on a CD perhaps once. Buy the CD instead for William Byrd's Four Voice Mass--an "early music" reading, pitched low sung edgily, evoking its contemporary seditiousness--stands the hair on end. Buy it also for Byrd's "Civitas sancti tui," the final proof of how disciplined, taut, and yet at the same moment heartbreakingly emotional this music can be.