The BBC has announced the playlist of works by William Byrd for inclusion in the final episode of 'Composer of the Week' to be broadcast at 12.00pm on Friday 7 July 2023. The programme is entitled 'Stondon Massey' and will include two contributions to the programme by our local historian Andrew Smith.
Composer of the Week
William Byrd (c1540-1623)
Episode 5 of 5
Stondon Massey
BBC
Radio 3 - Composer of the Week, William Byrd (1543-1623), Stondon Massey
Donald Macleod sees Byrd retire to the country and pursue
new directions in music and in life.
This week, Donald Macleod marks the 400th anniversary of the
death of William Byrd, the greatest British musician of his age. Donald is
joined all week by Byrd expert Kerry McCarthy to explore Byrd’s story and
reveal a composer of determined ambition and powerful convictions. Those who
encountered him, found Byrd could be a difficult adversary as well as a loyal
friend. Donald also visits Essex to discover what remains of Byrd’s legacy in
the places where he felt most at home, and to see how the composer navigated a
hazardous path between his Catholic faith and his duty to the crown at a time
of great religious intolerance.
Today, Donald returns to Stondon Massey where Byrd lived for
nearly 30 years, and searches for clues to his final resting place there. He
looks at the legal battles Byrd initiated with some of his neighbours and
explores the daring new musical project Byrd set for himself, now he was free
of his regular obligations at the Chapel Royal.
Haec dies
Choir of Clare College Cambridge, directed by Timothy Brown
The Battell (extract)
Terence Charlston, virginals
Galiardo ‘Mrs. Mary Brownlow’
Catalina Vicens (virginals)
Responsum accepit Simeon
Nunc dimittis
The William Byrd Choir, directed by Gavin Turner
Come Jolly Swains
Have Mercy on me, O God
Blow up the Trumpet
The Sixteen
Fretwork, directed by Harry Christophers
Galiardo ‘The Earle of Salisbury’
Flora Papadopoulos, double harp
Tristitia et anxietas
Gallicantus
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