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Signum Records, the King’s Singers and Concordia would like to thank Chris Pond, David Prior, Emma Gormley, Lionel Pike and Erika Esslinger for their kind assistance with this project.

Francis Pott and Signum Records are grateful to Professor William Barker, President at the University of King’s College, Nova Scotia, and Professor Jean Guthrie of Memorial University, Newfoundland, for their kind permission to make use of their translation from Alciato in Master Tresham; His Ducke

Editions

William Byrd 4-part Mass ed. Philip Brett

Ardens est cor meum – Richard Dering (edition JOED music)
Source: Cantica Sacra 1618, Phalèse, Antwerp
(Antiphon to the Benedictus at Lauds Thursday after Easter)

Civitas sancti tui – William Byrd (edition OUP)
Second part of Ne Irascaris included in Cantiones Sacrae 1589

Ave Maria gratia plena – Peter Philips ed. Lionel Pike
Source: Litaniae Beate Mariae Virginis, 1623

O Lord how joyful is the King – Thomas Weelkes
(edition Stainer and Bell)
Text from Psalm 21

From Virgin’s womb/Rejoice, rejoice – William Byrd (edition Stainer and Bell)
Text by Francis Kindlemarsh from The Paradyse of Dainty Devyses, publ. 1576 4th verse of Byrd’s A Carowle for Christmas Day from Songs of sundrie natures, 1589, nos.35 & 24

Concordia

Concordia was formed more than ten years ago to ‘explore music involving viols of all shapes and sizes’. Under the direction of Mark Levy, the group has had many notable successes concentrating on the rich field of English consort music, its series of recordings of consort music by Orlando Gibbons winning accolades including the Diapason d’Or, Choc de Musique, BBC Music Magazine Outstanding rating and Editor’s Choice in Gramophone magazine. In the last few years, however, Concordia has turned increasingly to its wider brief, with numerous projects rediscovering the repertoire of the prestigious ensembles of lutes, viols and voices that had a leading role in all the main European musical centres in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Mark Levy, Viol

Susanne Heinrich, Viol

Emilia Benjamin, Viol

Reiko Ichise, Viol

Joanna Levine, Viol

David Miller, Lute

Sarah Baldock

Finalist in the 1998 Calgary International, and prizewinner at the 2000 Odense and 2002 Dallas International Organ Competitions, Sarah Baldock is a popular soloist in the UK and abroad. Recent performances have included concertos with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, and concerts in France, Denmark, Germany, Ireland and Canada. Sarah is the Organ Performance Tutor at Southampton University, and has been a faculty member of the Calgary Summer Academy for six years. She has been involved in education projects at the Royal Festival Hall, London, and Birmingham Symphony Hall, and is an examiner and Council member of the Royal College of Organists. Since September 2002, Sarah has been Assistant Director of Music at Winchester Cathedral.

Organ

The organ was supplied by Malcolm Greenhalgh

Pictures

Palace of Westminster Collection:
Ciuitatis Westmonasteriensis pars [Westminster 1647]
Wenceslaus Hollar, engraving.
The Gunpowder Plot Cellar, 1799. Engraving by G Dale after
William Capon.

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