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...viol consort Fretwork may well be next on the list of Virgin Classics' fortuitous finds...

Author: By Brian D. Koh, | Title: Byrd Flies Again in New Deutsche Release | 7/29/1994 | See Source »

Their release of the Consort Music of William Byrd is a most welcome complement to the Tallis Scholars' sublime recording of Byrd's Great Service on Gimell...

Author: By Brian D. Koh, | Title: Byrd Flies Again in New Deutsche Release | 7/29/1994 | See Source »

Most of the pieces Byrd wrote for the viol consort were based on a plainsong theme, supported by contrapuntal figurations by the accompanying instruments. Though the bare-bones outline of the form itself is admittedly simple, those who simply dismiss Byrd's mantric writing as constricting or stultifying miss the point...

Author: By Brian D. Koh, | Title: Byrd Flies Again in New Deutsche Release | 7/29/1994 | See Source »

...viol consort playing itself, the technical and artistic execution most enjoyable, and I especially appreciated the carefully treated passages where Byrd deliberately toyed with dissonance...

Author: By Brian D. Koh, | Title: Byrd Flies Again in New Deutsche Release | 7/29/1994 | See Source »

...murdered annually. Some of them did useful things with their lives. None of them have been eulogized like Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman--the one a promiscuous tippler who puttered around in Ferraris without having contributed anything significant to society, whose lifetime occupation was that of silicon-impregnated consort to a brutish gladiator and rental car shill, the other a member of that most dispensible of species--the "aspiring actor/model". Are these two typical of murder victims? Is their loss the greatest tragedy on planet Earth this year, worthy of the global mourning that Rwanda cannot...

Author: By Benjamin J. Heller, | Title: Playing in the People's Court | 7/19/1994 | See Source »

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