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ARTEK Early Music presents: Byrd 1589 – Songs of Sundrie Natures I

As its name suggests, Byrd’s 1589 volume of songs titled Songs of Sundrie Natures varies widely in scoring, style, and mood. Byrd’s preface says that he is “desirous to delight thee with varietie, whereof (in my opinion) no Science is more plentifully adorned then Musicke,” and he offers the book as a musical compilation “to

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RenChorNY presents the Music of Heinrich Isaac for Church and State

  RenChorNY under Dr. Richard Porterfield returns to “Choralis Constantinus“, as in our 1959 LP, and the great Hapsburg Court work created for Maximilan I, the Brilliant six part “Virgo Prudentissima”, the Glorious  five part Marian hexachord fantasy “O decus ecclesiae Virgo”, the Lyrical Song of Solomon: “Tu pulchra es”, and the Humanistic (folk-themed) “Missa

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