William Byrd
Born: 1539 (Lincoln, United Kingdom) Born c.1539/40 or 1543. Died: 1623-07-04 (Stondon Massey, United Kingdom). William Byrd, English madrigalist and composer. This 'Father of Musicke' is considered the greatest of the Virginal composers, and has arguably had more influence on the development of English music than any other composer.
Palestrina Revealed
Palestrina*, Byrd*, White*, Mundy*, Choir Of Clare College, Cambridge*, Graham Ross (2)
2025
Harmonia Mundi
CD
Complete Fantasias For Organ
Byrd* - Jangoo Chapkhana
2025
Brilliant Classics
CD, Album
Im Wachen Traume
Delian Quartett, Schumann* / Reimann*, Byrd* / Pierini*, Purcell*, Claudia Barainsky
2024
ECM Records, ECM Records, ECM New Series, ECM New Series, ECM New Series
CD, Album
Reformation: Keyboard Works by William Byrd, Orlando Gibbons, John Bull & Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck
Mishka Rushdie Momen / William Byrd, Orlando Gibbons, John Bull & Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck
2024
Hyperion
CD, Album
Organ Works
Byrd* - Pieter-Jan Belder
2024
Brilliant Classics
2xCD, Album
The Great Service & English Anthems
William Byrd - Alamire, His Majestys Sagbutts And Cornetts, Stephen Farr, David Skinner (4)
2024
Inventa Records
CD, Album
Ave Verum Corpus
William Byrd, Kapellchor des Knabenchores Unser Lieben Frauen Bremen & Ulrich Kaiser (2)
2024
RecordJet
File, FLAC, Single, 24-
Tom + Will
Weelkes*, Byrd* – The King's Singers, Fretwork
2023
Signum Classics
CD
William Byrd
Stile Antico - William Byrd
2023
Decca
CD, Album
Byrd 1589 (Songs Of Sundrie Natures)
William Byrd - Rachel Haworth, Martha McLorinan, Clare Wilkinson, Nicholas Todd, Simon Wall (2), Timothy Scott Whiteley*, Robert Macdonald, Jacob Heringman, Lynda Sayce, Alamire, Fretwork, David Skinner (4)
2023
Inventa Records
2xCD, Album
Mass For Five Voices
Byrd*, The Gesualdo Six, Owain Park
2023
Hyperion
CD
The Quadran Pavan And Galliard
Kit Armstrong (2) • William Byrd
2023
Deutsche Grammophon
2xFile, FLAC, Single
Keyboard Works
William Byrd - Stephen Farr
2023
Resonus Classics
CD, Album
My Ladye Nevells Booke
William Byrd, Pieter-Jan Belder
2023
Brilliant Classics
3xCD, Comp
Tallis • Byrd • Gibbons
Tallis* • Byrd* • Gibbons* - Friederike Chylek
2023
Oehms Classics
CD, Album
Complete Harpsicord And Organ Music
William Byrd
2023
Brilliant Classics
9xCD, Comp
Psalmes, Songs And Sonnets 1611
William Byrd - The Sixteen, Harry Christophers, Fretwork
2022
CORO (2)
2xCD, Album
Pavans & Galliards, Variations & Grounds
Byrd* – Daniel-Ben Pienaar
2022
Avie Records
2xCD, Album
Keyboard Music
William Byrd, Friederike Chylek
2022
The Visionaries Of Piano Music
Kit Armstrong (2), William Byrd, John Bull
2021
Deutsche Grammophon, Deutsche Grammophon
2xCD, Album
A Store Housse Of Treasure - John Baldwin's Commonplace Book
Bird* | Bevin* | Ferrabosco* | Taverner* | Tye a.o.*, Musicke & Mirth
2021
Ramée
CD, Album
Byrd 1588 (Psalmes, Sonets & Songs Of Sadnes And Pietie)
Byrd* - Alamire, Fretwork, David Skinner (4), Grace Davidson, Martha McLorinan, Nicholas Todd
2021
Inventa Records
2xCD, Album
The Angels
Byrd*, Harvey*, Purcell*, Palestrina*, Les Métaboles, Léo Warynski
2021
NoMadMusic
CD, Album
An Elizabethan Christmas
Byrd*, Gibbons*, Holborne*, Peerson*, Weelkes*, Fretwork, Helen Charlston
2021
Singing In Secret: Clandestine Catholic Music By William Byrd
William Byrd, The Marian Consort, Rory McCleery
2020
Delphian
CD, Album
The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, Volume 7
Pieter-Jan Belder, G. Farnaby* / R. Farnaby* / Byrd*
2020
Brilliant Classics
3xCD
Musiques Au Temps De Byrd, Gibbons Et Dowland
Byrd*, Gibbons*, Dowland*, Emma Kirkby, Paul Agnew (2), Andreas Scholl, Concordia, Carole Cerasi, Deller Consort, Choir Of St John's College*
2019
Diapason
CD, Comp, Gat
William Byrd: The Great Service & Anthems
Odyssean Ensemble, Colm Carey, Christian Wilson (3), William Byrd
2019
Linn Records
CD
Late Music for the Virginals
William Byrd, Aapo Häkkinen
2018
Alba Records
SACD, Hybrid, Multichannel
The Passinge Mesures (Music Of The English Virginalists)
Mahan Esfahani - Bull*, Byrd*, Farnaby*, Gibbons*, Inglot*, Tomkins*
2018
Hyperion
CD, Album
Motets
Byrd*, The Choir Of King's College, Cambridge*, Stephen Cleobury
2018
King's College, Cambridge
CD, Album
Mad Dog
Hopkinson Smith, Holborne*, Johnson*, Byrd*, Dowland*
2017
Naïve
CD, Album
Consort Music And Songs
William Byrd, B Five Recorder Consort*, Sunhae Im
2017
Coviello Classics
SACD, Hybrid, Multichannel, Album
Music for the Virginals
William Byrd, Aapo Häkkinen
2017
Alba Records
CD, Album
Byrd | Britten
Byrd* | Britten* - The Choir Of Jesus College, Cambridge*, Mark Williams (33)
2017
Signum Classics
CD, Album
Songs Of Sundrie Natures
Dowland* - Byrd* - The Hilliard Ensemble
2016
Erato Veritas
2xCD, Comp
The Deer's Cry
Arvo Pärt, William Byrd, The Sixteen, Harry Christophers
2016
CORO (2)
CD, Album
1000 Years of Classical Music, Vol. 3: Baroque & Before - Sacred Music of the Renaissance
Jenny Duck-Chong, Gregorio Allegri, Josquin Des Prés, William Byrd, Tomás Luis De Victoria, Guillaume Dufay, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Antonio Lotti, Pierre de la Rue, Thomas Tallis, Robert Parsons
2016
ABC Classics
CD
English Music
The Academy Of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood, Purcell*, Arne*, Boyce*, Byrd*
2015
L'Oiseau-Lyre, Decca, L'Oiseau-Lyre
20xCD, RE, RM + Box, Comp
In The Midst Of Life (Music From The Baldwin Partbooks I)
Contrapunctus (2), Owen Rees (2), Byrd* • Tallis* • Taverner* • Sheppard*
2015
Signum Classics
CD, Album
Clavecin Et Orgue Au XVIIe Siècle
Gustav Leonhardt, Froberger*, Couperin*, Byrd*, Gibbons*, Bull*, Scheidemann*, Weckmann*, Trabaci*, Frescobaldi*, Pasquini*, Merula ...*
2015
Sony Classical, Diapason
3xCD, Comp, Dig
Infelix Ego - Mass For 5 Voices-Motets
William Byrd - Collegium Vocale Gent*, Philippe Herreweghe
2014
PHI
CD, Album
The Three Masses – Ave Verum Corpus
Byrd* - The Choir Of Westminster Cathedral*, Martin Baker (2)
2014
Hyperion
CD
Infelix Ego - Mass For 5 Voices - Motets
William Byrd - Collegium Vocale Gent*, Philippe Herreweghe
2014
PHI
12xFile, ALAC, Album, 24
Music Of The Kingdom
Tallis*, Byrd*, Purcell*, Händel*, The Sixteen, Harry Christophers
2014
CORO (2)
CD, Album
Ruckers 1604
Marco Vitale , Works By William Byrd, Jan Pietersz. Sweelinck*, Martin Peerson
2014
Ayros
CD, Album
Adoramus Te. Motets, Songs And Consort Music
William Byrd, Peter Philips - Clare Wilkinson, The Rose Consort Of Viols*
2014
Deux-Elles
CD, Album
An Immortal Legacy
Tallis*, Byrd*, Tippett*, Britten*, MacMillan*, The Sixteen, Harry Christophers
2013
CORO (2)
CD, Album
Parthenia
William Byrd, Dr. John Bull* & Orlando Gibbons - Catalina Vicens
2013
Carpe Diem Records (3)
CD, Album
Libera Nos -The Cry Of The Oppressed
Byrd*, Tallis*, Cardoso*, De Monte* - Contrapunctus (2), Owen Rees (2)
2013
Signum Classics
CD
Byrd Consort Songs
William Byrd, Robin Blaze, Concordia
2013
Helios
CD
Glenn Gould Plays Renaissance & Baroque Music
Glenn Gould - William Byrd, Orlando Gibbons, Georg Friedrich Händel, Domenico Scarlatti, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
2012
Sony Classical
2xCD, Comp
The Great Service
William Byrd - The Cardinall's Musick / Andrew Carwood
2012
Hyperion
CD, Album
The Great Service In The Chapel Royal
Byrd* - Musica Contexta, Steven Devine, The English Cornett And Sackbut Ensemble
2012
Chaconne, Chandos
CD, Album
The Very Best Of English Song
Britten* · Byrd* · Delius* · Elgar* · Parry* · Purcell* · Stanford* · Vaughan Williams* · Walton* - Sir Thomas Allen* · Dame Janet Baker* · Ian Bostridge · Alfred Deller · Emma Kirkby · Anthony Rolfe Johnson · Robert Tear
2012
EMI Classics, EMI Classics
Box, Album, Comp + 5xCD, Comp, Mono, RM
Sacred Choral Music
The Cardinall's Musick, Andrew Carwood, Byrd* & Tallis*
2012
Cantiones Sacrae 1575
Thomas Tallis & William Byrd - Alamire / David Skinner (4)
2011
Obsidian
2xCD, Album
Complete Consort Music
Phantasm (3), William Byrd
2011
Linn Records
SACD, Hybrid, Multichannel
Infelix Ego
William Byrd - The Cardinall's Musick, Andrew Carwood
2010
Hyperion
CD, Album
Ceremony And Devotion - Music for the Tudors
Tallis*, Byrd*, Sheppard*, The Sixteen, Harry Christophers
2010
CORO (2)
CD, Album
Byrd
Vienna Vocal Consort, Byrd*
2010
Hodie Simon Petrus
William Byrd - The Cardinall's Musick / Andrew Carwood
2009
Hyperion
CD, Album
Assumpta Est Maria (Gradualia 1605)
William Byrd - The Cardinall's Musick / Andrew Carwood
2009
Lamentations
Choir Of Clare College, Cambridge*, Timothy Brown (3), Palestrina*, Allegri*, Ramsey*, Weelkes*, Tallis*, Josquin*, Byrd*
2009
Heavenly Harmonies
William Byrd, Thomas Tallis, Stile Antico
2008
Harmonia Mundi
SACD, Hybrid, Multichannel, Album
Sacred Choral Music
William Byrd
2008
Él
CD, Album, RE
Anthems, Motets & Services
William Byrd - Choir Of Hereford Cathedral, Geraint Bowen
2008
Griffin
CD, Album
Gradualia (1607)
William Byrd, Ensemble Plus Ultra, Michael Noone, Robert Quinney
2008
Musica Omnia
CD
Second Service & Consort Anthems
William Byrd - The Choir Of Magdalen College, Oxford*, Bill Ives, Fretwork
2007
Harmonia Mundi France, Harmonia Mundi
CD
Clarifica Me
William Byrd, Léon Berben
2007
Ramée
CD, Album
Consort Music
Alfonso Ferrabosco, William Byrd - James Bowman (2), Suzan Hamilton*, Ricercar Consort, Philippe Pierlot (2)
2007
Ricercar
2xCD, Album, Comp
Cantiones Sacrae
Byrd*, Choir Of Trinity College, Cambridge*, Richard Marlow
2007
Chandos, Chaconne
CD, Album
My Ladye Nevells Booke
William Byrd
2007
English Church Music
Byrd*, Humfrey*, Gibbons*
2006
Harmonia Mundi France
3xCD, Album
Playing Elizabeth's Tune
The Tallis Scholars, William Byrd
2006
Pescodd Time
William Byrd - Bertrand Cuiller
2006
Laudibus In Sanctis
William Byrd - The Cardinall's Musick / Andrew Carwood
2006
The Great Service
Byrd* / The Choir Of Westminster Abbey, Robert Quinney, James O'Donnell (2)
2005
Hyperion
CD
1605: Treason And Dischord (William Byrd And The Gunpowder Plot)
William Byrd, The King's Singers, Concordia
2005
Signum Classics
CD, Album
Four Tempraments
Phantasm (3), Byrd*, Ferrabosco*, Parsons*, Tallis*
2005
Harpsichord Music
William Byrd - Gustav Leonhardt
2005
Consort Songs
William Byrd - Emma Kirkby, Fretwork
2004
Harmonia Mundi, Harmonia Mundi France
CD, Album
O Sacrum Convivium
William Byrd - The Cardinall's Musick / Andrew Carwood / David Skinner (4)
2004
Gaudeamus
CD, Album
Music For Virginals (The Leversidge Virginals In The Ashmolean Museum)
William Byrd, Martin Souter
2003
Classical Communications, The Gift Of Music, The Ashmolean Museum
CD, Album
Organ Works = Œuvres D'Orgue
William Byrd / Marianne Lévy-Noisette
2003
Syrius
CD, Album
... In Chains Of Gold ...
Byrd*, Tallis*, Dunedin Consort
2003
Renaissance Masterpieces
Tallis* • Gibbons* • Tomkins* • Taverner* • Byrd* • Lassus* • Du Caurroy* • Palestrina* • De Monte*
2003
Bach, Bull, Byrd...
Bach* ~ Bull* ~ Byrd* ~ Gibbons* ~ Hassler* ~ Pachelbel* ~ Ritter* ~ Strogers* - Gustav Leonhardt
2003
Cantiones Sacrae 1589; Propers For The Purification Of The Blessed Virgin Mary
William Byrd - The Cardinall's Musick / Andrew Carwood / David Skinner (4)
2002
Gaudeamus
CD, Album
Lamentations, Four Part Mass • Lamentations I & II, Audivi Vocem De Caelo
William Byrd, Thomas Tallis, The Clerks of the Choir of New College Oxford, Edward Higginbottom
2002
CRD Records
CD, Album
Motets
William Byrd, Vocal Group Ars Nova* & Paul Hillier
2002
Ars Nova (3)
CD, Album
Choral Masterpieces Of The European Renaissance
Byrd*, Tallis*, De Lassus*, Du Caurroy*, Palestrina* – De Monte*, Choir Of New College Oxford*, Edward Higginbottom
2002
CRD Records
5xCD, Comp
Englische Virginalisten
Zuzana Růžičková - William Byrd, John Bull, Thomas Morley, John Munday, Martin Peerson, Richard Farnaby, William Craft*
2002
The Three Masses
William Byrd, Paul Hillier, Pro Arte Singers*
2002
Cantiones Sacrae 1589; Propers For Lady Mass From Christmas To The Purification
William Byrd - The Cardinall's Musick / Andrew Carwood / David Skinner (4)
2001
ASV
CD, Album
Music For Holy Week And Easter
William Byrd - The Cardinall's Musick / Andrew Carwood / David Skinner (4)
2001
ASV
CD, Album
John Come Kiss Me Now / Virginal Music
William Byrd, Andreas Staier
2001
Teldec
CD, Album
Keyboard Music By William Byrd
William Byrd, Davitt Moroney
2001
Hyperion
CD, Comp
Cantiones Sacrae (1575, 1589, 1591)
William Byrd, Edward Higginbottom, The Choir Of New College Oxford*
2001
Musical Heritage Society
3xCD
Fairest Isle
Barbara Bonney, Purcell* • Dowland* • Byrd* • Campion*
2001
Ave verum corpus
William Byrd
Pavan
William Byrd
Kyrie
William Byrd
Galliard
William Byrd
Mass for Four Voices: Kyrie
William Byrd
Have mercy upon me, O God
William Byrd
In angel's weed
William Byrd
Agnus Dei
William Byrd
In Nomine No. 5
William Byrd
Fantasia No. 3
William Byrd
Fantasia No. 2
William Byrd
Gloria
William Byrd
Civitas sancti tui
William Byrd
Ye sacred Muses
William Byrd
Fantasia
William Byrd
Infelix ego
William Byrd
Laudibus in sanctis
William Byrd
Credo
William Byrd
Sellinger's Round
William Byrd
Quis me statim
William Byrd
