Byrd 1589: Songs of sundrie natures Twentieth Century The choir present a major

The choir present a major work written specially for the choir

Ceruleo celebrate the music of Barbara Strozzi

the Academy took its inspiration from peasants and an idealised world of rural innocence

each highly spirited and improvisatory Caprice is framed by a selection from Gallay's Préludes mesurés et nonmesurés

but his harmonic and textural language offers us a fascinating insight into the changing fashions of musical taste and composers’ attempts to keep with them

Byrd 1589: Songs of sundrie natures Twentieth Century The choir present a majorAlamire Jacob Heringman (lute) Lynda Sayce (lute) Fretwork David Skinner (director) Byrds first song collection was published in 1588. In the following year he writes that he had bene encouraged thereby, to take further paines therein, and to make the pertaker thereof, because I would shew my selfe gratefull to thee for thy loue, and desirous to delight thee with varietie, whereof (in my opinion) no Science is more plentifully adorned then Musicke.