Pomerium
Alexander Blachly, Director

WILLIAM BYRD (ca. 1540-1623)
Catholic Composer in an Anglican Land

Music Before 1800
529 West 121st Street
New York, NY

4:00 p.m.
2 May 2010   Early Period (“Technical” Works)

Christe qui lux es et dies Diliges Dominum O lux beata Trinitas

Oxford, Christ Church, MSS 979-983 (1580s) Cantiones sacrae (1575) Cantiones sacrae (1575)

Middle Period (“Political” Motets)

Plorans plorabit Letentur coeli Tribulationes civitatum

Gradualia I (1605) Cantiones sacrae I (1589) Cantiones sacrae I (1589)

Middle Period (Works in English)

O Lord, Make Thy Servant, Elizabeth Though Amaryllis Dance in Green Sing Joyfully

Oxford, Christ Church, MSS 984-988 (1580s) Psalmes, Sonets & Songs (1588) New York Pub. Lib., Drexel MSS 4180-4185 (ca. 1620)

Late Period (Liturgical Works for the Roman Rite)

Justorum animae O salutaris hostia Veni sancte spiritus

Gradualia I (1605) Gradualia I (1605) Gradualia II (1607)

Late Period (Easter Motets)

In resurrectione tua Haec dies

Gradualia I (1605) Cantiones sacrae II (1591)

Pomerium
Elizabeth Baber, Kristina Boerger, Melissa Fogarty, Michele Kennedy, Dominique Surh - sopranos
Luthien Brackett, Silvie Jensen - mezzo-sopranos
Robert Isaacs - countertenor
Thom Baker, Neil Farrell, Michael Steinberger - tenors
Jeffrey Johnson, Thomas McCargar - baritones
Kurt-Owen Richards, Peter Stewart - basses