Recordings
Three CDs recorded by The William Byrd Singers are available for purchase by post, email or telephone: for details see the contacts 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 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
- McCabe: Siberia
- Wilkinson (arr): The Piper o' Dundee
- Ellis: Sequentia in tempore Natali Sancti
- Wilkinson: That Time of Year (soloist John Powell)
- Parry: Songs of Farewell
JS Bach's The St John Passion
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.
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
You can also hear the Byrds on Sound Cloud and YouTube
