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Composer: Byrd, William (1540-1623)

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Wigmore Hall

Wed 9 Sep at 19:30

Tallis, Byrd, Cornysh II, Tavener, Frye, Pygott, Gibbons, Weelkes, Mundy, Sheryngham, Ramsey, Tomkins

Guy, Austin, Wicks, Cooter, Grant, Park, The Gesualdo Six

© Matthew Johnson

Kings Place: Hall One

Sat 26 Sep at 19:30

Shaw, Wonder, Byrd, Simon, Mvula

© Sheila Burnett

St John's, Waterloo

Fri 2 Oct at 19:30

Wood, Anonymous, Morley, Purcell, Holst, Parry, Tye, Britten, Smyth, Byrd, Howells, Ramsey, Holst I., Mundy, Tippett, Warlock, Clements, Vaughan Williams

Andrew Griffiths, Londinium

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Fretwork © Music in the Round

Take Five: five viols and – almost – 500 years of music in Fretwork’s Sheffield programme

Sonnambula © Lawrence Sumulong | The Frick Collection

Sonnambula and Davóne Tines restore a court entertainment at The Frick Collection

By Kurt Gottschalk

Nigel Short conducts Tenebrae at the Elbphilharmonie © Carolin Windel

Tenebrae’s spatial sonic experiment: Pärt, Tallis and Tavener at the Elbphilharmonie

By Mengguang Huang

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Mark Rylance (Thomas Cromwell) © BBC

The wolf returns: Debbie Wiseman talks The Mirror and the Light

By Gavia Baker-Whitelaw

Stephen Cleobury © Emma Cleobury

Stephen Cleobury: “I wish all people would learn to sing”

By Alison Karlin

© Public domain

The Authenticity Impulse: Early Music and its Revival

Byrd, William

Byrd, William

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Year of birth	1540
Year of death	1623
Nationality	United Kingdom
Period	Early

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