Byrd 1588: Psalmes, Sonets & songs of sadnes & and pietie RES10121 17 for piano and horn

17 for piano and horn signalled the beginning of an explosion in works for piano and horn duo in the early part of the nineteenth century

Resonus is proud to welcome internationally celebrated artists Nicky Spence (tenor) and Malcolm Martineau (piano) with a recital album consisting of a musical journey of Shakespeare Songs set by a diverse and eclectic range of composers from Purcell and Haydn

and Petrassi (who taught LeFanu)

but his sheer inventiveness and joyful revelry in a kaleidoscopic riot of instrumental colour is celebrated here in the earliest versions of such classics as Le Bestiaire and Cocardes

Byrd 1588: Psalmes, Sonets & songs of sadnes & and pietie RES10121 17 for piano and hornAlamire Grace Davidson (soprano) Martha McLorinan (mezzo soprano) Nicholas Todd (tenor) Fretwork David Skinner (director) Following Tallis and Byrds first publishing venture of Cantiones Sacrae of 1575, Byrd waited some 13 years to again wake the presses with his compositions. His 1588 Psalmes, Sonets, & songs of sadnes and pietie was his first solo publication, for which Elizabeths Lord Chancellor (and notable favourite), Sir Christopher Hatton,