Recordings

The William Byrd Singers have recorded five CDs. All may be ordered by mail, email or telephone: for details see the Contact page.

Stabat Mater

The William Byrd Singers, directed by Stephen Wilkinson
Jeffrey Makinson organ

Domenico Scarlatti’s extraordinary masterpiece for ten voices, recorded at a concert in the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester on 26 February 2006.

“The music is by turns compulsively compassionate and touchingly tender... Bach would have loved it – not least because its astonishing intellectual skill is the servant of the expression of infinite joy.” — Stephen Wilkinson’s sleeve notes.

The Flower of Peace

The William Byrd Singers and Capriccio, directed by Stephen Wilkinson.

William Byrd:
• Laudibus in sanctis
• Memento homo
• Out of the orient crystal skies
• Turn our captivity

Henry Purcell:
• Overture to The Gordian Knot Untied
• Dances from The Fairy Queen (Rondeau, Dance for the fairies, Dance for the Chinese man and woman, Entry dance, Monkey's dance)

S S Wesley (arranged for strings by Stephen Wilkinson):
• Andante in G

C H H Parry Songs of Farewell:
• My soul, there is a country
• I know my soul hath power
• Never weather-beaten sail
• There is an old belief
• At the round earth's imagined corners
• Lord, let me know mine end

Vigilate

The William Byrd Singers and Capriccio, directed by Stephen Wilkinson.

William Byrd: Vigilate
Robert Ramsey: Inclina, domine
Matthew Locke: Suite in D for strings (Fantasia, Courante, Air, Sarabande)
Henry Purcell: Benedicite
Vaughan Williams:

• The cloud-capp'd towers
• Valiant-for-truth

John Ireland: Concertino Pastorale for strings –

• Eclogue
• Threnody
• Toccata

The Best of the Byrds

The William Byrd Singers, directed by Stephen Wilkinson

Wilkinson (arr): As I walked out
McCabe: Visions
Wilkinson (arr): Rowing down the Tide
Wilkinson: Betjeman's Bells
Wilkinson (arr): The Lark in the Clear Air
Siberia (McCabe)
Wilkinson (arr): The Piper o' Dundee
Ellis: Sequentia in tempore Natali Sancti
Wilkinson: That Time of Year (soloist John Powell)
C H H Parry: Songs of Farewell –

• My soul, there is a country
• I know my soul hath power
• Never weather-beaten sail
• There is an old belief
• At the round earth's imagined corners
• Lord, let me know mine end

The St John Passion

The William Byrd Singers and Capriccio, directed by Stephen Wilkinson
Sarahjane King soprano
Clare Wilkinson Mezzo
Michael Bennet tenor Evangelist
Nicholas Mulroy tenor
Mark Rowlinson bass
Leandro Silvera cello continuo
Jonathan Scott organ continuo

Highlights from The St John Passion by J S Bach, recorded at a concert in the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester on 18th March 2001.