Byrd: Sacred Works / Filsell, Saint Thomas Men & Boys Choir, NYC

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Marking the quadricentenary of Byrd’s death in 2023, the Men & Boys Choir of Saint Thomas, Fifth Avenue, New York, recreates the Catholic Mass for the Feast of Corpus Christi as Byrd might have experienced it in the late 16th century. This new recording includes various Latin motets written by Byrd for the feast, along with the remarkable Mass setting in four parts.

Part of this album is a recording, originally released on LP only in 1981, of the Saint Thomas Choir under the late Gerre Hancock, singing Byrd’s complete Great Service, written in the vernacular for the reformed Anglican liturgy – the flip side of Byrd’s Latinate expression.



Product Description:


  • Release Date: January 05, 2024


  • Catalog Number: SIGCD776


  • UPC: 635212077627


  • Label: Signum Classics


  • Number of Discs: 2


  • Period: Renaissance


  • Composer: William Byrd


  • Conductor: Jeremy Filsell, Gerre Hancock


  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Saint Thomas Choir of Men & Boys, 5th Ave., NYC


  • Performer: Jeremy Filsell, Nicolas Haigh



Works:


  1. Clarifica me Pater I

    Composer: William Byrd

    Performer: Nicolas Haigh (Organist)


  2. Cibavit eos

    Composer: William Byrd

    Ensemble: Saint Thomas Choir of Men & Boys, 5th Avenue, NYC

    Conductor: Jeremy Filsell


  3. Mass for four voices

    Composer: William Byrd

    Ensemble: Saint Thomas Choir of Men & Boys, 5th Avenue, NYC

    Conductor: Jeremy Filsell


  4. Collect

    Composer: William Byrd

    Ensemble: Saint Thomas Choir of Men & Boys, 5th Avenue, NYC

    Conductor: Jeremy Filsell


  5. Epistle

    Composer: William Byrd

    Performer: Jeremy Filsell (Organ)


  6. Occuli omnium

    Composer: William Byrd

    Ensemble: Saint Thomas Choir of Men & Boys, 5th Avenue, NYC

    Conductor: Jeremy Filsell


  7. Alleluia: Cognoverunt discipuli

    Composer: William Byrd

    Ensemble: Saint Thomas Choir of Men & Boys, 5th Avenue, NYC

    Conductor: Jeremy Filsell


  8. Gospel

    Composer: William Byrd

    Ensemble: Saint Thomas Choir of Men & Boys, 5th Avenue, NYC

    Conductor: Jeremy Filsell


  9. Clarifica me Pater II

    Composer: William Byrd

    Performer: Nicolas Haigh (Organist)


  10. Credo

    Composer: William Byrd

    Ensemble: Saint Thomas Choir of Men & Boys, 5th Avenue, NYC

    Conductor: Jeremy Filsell


  11. Credo II

    Composer: William Byrd

    Ensemble: Saint Thomas Choir of Men & Boys, 5th Avenue, NYC

    Conductor: Jeremy Filsell


  12. Sursum Corda & Proper Preface

    Composer: William Byrd

    Ensemble: Saint Thomas Choir of Men & Boys, 5th Avenue, NYC

    Conductor: Jeremy Filsell


  13. Pater noster & Pax vobiscum

    Composer: William Byrd

    Ensemble: Saint Thomas Choir of Men & Boys, 5th Avenue, NYC

    Conductor: Jeremy Filsell


  14. Quotiescunque manducabitis

    Composer: William Byrd

    Ensemble: Saint Thomas Choir of Men & Boys, 5th Avenue, NYC

    Conductor: Jeremy Filsell


  15. Ego sum panis

    Composer: William Byrd

    Ensemble: Saint Thomas Choir of Men & Boys, 5th Avenue, NYC

    Conductor: Jeremy Filsell


  16. Salvator Mundi I

    Composer: William Byrd

    Performer: Jeremy Filsell (Organ)


  17. O sacrum convivium

    Composer: William Byrd

    Ensemble: Saint Thomas Choir of Men & Boys, 5th Avenue, NYC

    Conductor: Jeremy Filsell


  18. Ave verum corpus

    Composer: William Byrd

    Ensemble: Saint Thomas Choir of Men & Boys, 5th Avenue, NYC

    Conductor: Jeremy Filsell


  19. Salvator Mundi II

    Composer: William Byrd

    Performer: Jeremy Filsell (Organ)


  20. Pange lingua

    Composer: William Byrd

    Ensemble: Saint Thomas Choir of Men & Boys, 5th Avenue, NYC

    Conductor: Jeremy Filsell


  21. Sacris solemnis

    Composer: William Byrd

    Ensemble: Saint Thomas Choir of Men & Boys, 5th Avenue, NYC

    Conductor: Jeremy Filsell


  22. Dominus vobiscum

    Composer: William Byrd

    Ensemble: Saint Thomas Choir of Men & Boys, 5th Avenue, NYC

    Conductor: Jeremy Filsell


  23. O Salutaris hostia

    Composer: William Byrd

    Ensemble: Saint Thomas Choir of Men & Boys, 5th Avenue, NYC

    Conductor: Jeremy Filsell


  24. Fantasia in D minor

    Composer: William Byrd

    Performer: Jeremy Filsell (Organ)


  25. The Great Service

    Composer: William Byrd

    Ensemble: Saint Thomas Choir of Men & Boys, 5th Avenue, NYC

    Performer: Gerre Hancock (Organist)

    Conductor: Gerre Hancock


  26. Composer: William Byrd

    Ensemble: Saint Thomas Choir of Men & Boys, 5th Avenue, NYC