Magdalena Consort / Fretwork / His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts / Bill Hunt

In Chains Of Gold. The English Pre-Restoration Verse Anthem. Volume 2: William Byrd To Edmund Hooper. Psalms And Royal Anthems Magdalena Consort / Fretwork / His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts / Bill Hunt

The second volume of the 'In Chains of Gold' The English Pre-Restoration Anthem, series started by Fretwork. Willian Byrd to Edmund Hooper: Psalms and Royal Anthems by Magdalena Consort, Fretwork, His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts, with Silas Wollston (organ).

More than any composer before him, William Byrd catered prolifically to a wide variety of musicians. Connoisseurs of Latin motets at home and abroad, troupes of boy actors with their viols and their unbroken voices, solo keyboard players, the choirs of the established English church, and the underground ensembles of Catholic households where mass was celebrated in secret-- performers of all these kinds could look to Byrd for quantities, in some cases vast, of music of the highest excellence - this is the second volume of the 'In Chains of Gold' series started by Fretwork.