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William Byrd (c. 1540 – 1623)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Byrd

"Byrd 1589: Songs of sundrie natures"
[Disc 1

Songs in three parts

Seven Penitential Psalms
1. Lord in thy rage rebuke me not
2. Right blessed are they
3. Lord in they wrath correct me not
4. O God which art most merciful
5. Lord hear my prayer instantly
6. From depth of sin
7. Attend mine humble prayer Lord

8. Susanna fair
9. The Nightingale
10. When younglings first
11. Upon a summer’s day
12. The greedy hawk

Songs in four parts

13. Is love a boy?
14. Wounded I am
15. From Citheron the warlike boy is fled
16. O Lord my God
17. While that the sun

Disc 2

Songs in five parts

1. Weeping full sore
2. Penelope that longed for the sight
3. Compel the hawk
4. See those sweet eyes
5. When I was otherwise
6. When first by force
7. I thought love had been a boy
8. O dear life
9. From Virgin’s womb
10. Of gold all burnished

Songs in six parts

11. Behold how good
12. An earthly tree a heavenly fruit
13. Who made thee Hob
14. And think ye nymphs
15. If in thine heart
16. Unto the hills mine eyes I lift
17. Christ rising again]

Rachel Haworth, soprano
Daisy Walford, soprano [Disc 2 track 9 only]
Martha McLorinan, mezzo-soprano
Clare Wilkinson, mezzo-soprano
Nicholas Todd, tenor
Simon Wall, tenor
Timothy Scott Whiteley, baritone
Robert Macdonald, bass
Jacob Heringman, lute
Lynda Sayce, lute
Fretwork
Alamire/David Skinner
(Inventa Records 2023)
https://songwhip.com/fretwork/byrd-1589

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