The Byrd Edition, Vol. 1: Early Latin Church Music & Propers for Lady Mass in Advent

"This project shows huge dedication and vision..." (Early Music Today) This project is one of the most comprehensive ever undertaken in the early music field: some 20 CDs that will cover the complete works of William Byrd. The music will be freshly edited and sources re-examined by David Skinner. Volume 1 is the first of the Latin Church Music discs, which will provide a chronological survey of Byrd's surviving Latin motets to the Cantiones Sacrae of 1591, interspersed with a liturgical survey of the Gradualia. This first CD includes the Gradualia propers for Lady Mass in Advent, the Lamentations, the exquisite penitential motet Peccavi super numerum and the great 9-part psalm setting for men's voices Domine quis habitabit.