Byrd 1589: Songs of sundrie natures Twentieth Century Organist Matthew Owens continues his

Organist Matthew Owens continues his major exploration of the many extant organ works of Pachelbel with this fourth volume

Premiered in 1800

Ceruleo celebrate the music of Barbara Strozzi

Featuring a stellar cast of performers

but his harmonic and textural language offers us a fascinating insight into the changing fashions of musical taste and composers’ attempts to keep with them

Byrd 1589: Songs of sundrie natures Twentieth Century Organist Matthew Owens continues hisAlamire Jacob Heringman (lute) Lynda Sayce (lute) Fretwork David Skinner (director) Byrds first song collection was published in 1588. In the following year he writes that he had bene encouraged thereby, to take further paines therein, and to make the pertaker thereof, because I would shew my selfe gratefull to thee for thy loue, and desirous to delight thee with varietie, whereof (in my opinion) no Science is more plentifully adorned then Musicke.