Byrd: Organ Works / Belder

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Label
Brilliant Classics
Release Date
September 6, 2024
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      William Byrd
    • PERFORMER
      Pieter-Jan Belder
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      September 06, 2024
    • UPC
      5028421971254
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BRI97125
    • LABEL
      Brilliant Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      2
    • GENRE
      Orchestral & Symphonic
    Works ⌄

    1. Prelude (Musica Britannica, Vol. 27, p. 1, BK 1)

      Composer: William Byrd

      Performer: Pieter-Jan Belder

    2. Fantasia (Musica Britannica, Vol. 28, p. 59, BK 63)

      Composer: William Byrd

      Performer: Pieter-Jan Belder

    3. Christe qui lux (Musica Britannica, Vol. 28, p. 195, BK 121)

      Composer: William Byrd

      Performer: Pieter-Jan Belder

    4. Fantasia in G Minor (Music Britannica, Vol. 55, No. 55) (arr. T. Tomkins)

      Composer: William Byrd

      Performer: Pieter-Jan Belder

    5. In nomine (Musica Britannica, Vol. 28, p. 12, BK SI)

      Composer: Robert Parsons

      Performer: Pieter-Jan Belder

    6. Ut re mi fa sol la (Musica Britannica, Vol. 28, p. 69, BK 65)

      Composer: William Byrd

      Performer: Pieter-Jan Belder

    7. Gloria tibi Trinitas (Musica Britannica, Vol. 28, p. 10, BK 50)

      Composer: William Byrd

      Performer: Pieter-Jan Belder

    8. Ground in G Minor (Musica Britannica, Vol. 27, p. 35, BK 9)

      Composer: William Byrd

      Performer: Pieter-Jan Belder

    9. Prelude and Fantasia (Musica Britannica, Vol. 27, p. 42, BK 12-13)

      Composer: William Byrd

      Performer: Pieter-Jan Belder

    10. The Queen's Alman (Musica Britannica, Vol. 27, p. 39, BK 10)

      Composer: William Byrd

      Performer: Pieter-Jan Belder

    11. Voluntary: For My Lady Nevell (Musica Britannica, Vol. 28, p. 51, BK 61)

      Composer: William Byrd

      Performer: Pieter-Jan Belder

    12. Pavana Lachrymae (Musica Britannica, Vol. 28, p. 21, BK 54)

      Composer: William Byrd

      Performer: Pieter-Jan Belder

    13. Fantasia No. 2 in G Major (Musica Britannica, Vol. 28, p. 59, BK 63)

      Composer: William Byrd

      Performer: Pieter-Jan Belder

    14. A Lesson of Voluntarie (Musica Britannica, Vol. 27, p. 91, BK 26)

      Composer: William Byrd

      Performer: Pieter-Jan Belder

    15. Miserere I (Musica Britannica, Vol. 28, P. 74, BK. 66)

      Composer: William Byrd

      Performer: Pieter-Jan Belder

    16. Miserere II (Musica Britannica, Vol. 28, p. 75, BK 67)

      Composer: William Byrd

      Performer: Pieter-Jan Belder

    17. Ut re mi fa sol la in F Major (Musica Britannica, Vol. 28, p. 37, BK 58)

      Composer: William Byrd

      Performer: Pieter-Jan Belder

    18. Ut re mi fa sol la in G Major, MB 28/64 (BK 64)

      Composer: William Byrd

      Performer: Pieter-Jan Belder

    19. Verse in C Major (Musica Britannica, Vol. 27, p. 99, BK 28)

      Composer: William Byrd

      Performer: Pieter-Jan Belder

    20. A Fancie (Musica Britannica, Vol. 28, p. 1, BK 46)

      Composer: William Byrd

      Performer: Pieter-Jan Belder

    21. Salvator mundi I (Musica Britannica, Vol. 28, p. 76, BK 68)

      Composer: William Byrd

      Performer: Pieter-Jan Belder

    22. Salvator mundi II (Musica Britannica, Vol. 28, p. 77, BK 69)

      Composer: William Byrd

      Performer: Pieter-Jan Belder

    23. A Voluntarie (Musica Britannica, Vol. 27, p. 96, BK 27)

      Composer: William Byrd

      Performer: Pieter-Jan Belder

    24. Clarifica me, Pater I (Musica Britannica, Vol. 28, p. 5, BK 47)

      Composer: William Byrd

      Performer: Pieter-Jan Belder

    25. Clarifica me, Pater II, (Musica Britannica, Vol. 28, p. 6, BK 48)

      Composer: William Byrd

      Performer: Pieter-Jan Belder

    26. Clarifica me, Pater III (Musica Britannica, Vol. 28, p. 8, BK 49)

      Composer: William Byrd

      Performer: Pieter-Jan Belder

    27. Prelude and Fantasia in C Major (Musica Britannica, Vol. 27, pp. 85-86, BK 24-25)

      Composer: William Byrd

      Performer: Pieter-Jan Belder


In 2023 Brilliant Classics released a 9CD box of the complete keyboard music by William Byrd, marking the tercentenary of the composer's death. The set was welcomed as a monumental achievement, and a worthy sequel to Davitt Moroney's pioneering achievement on Hyperion: 'Those who enjoyed Belder's forthright and imaginatively ornamented Byrd performances in his complete Fitzwilliam Virginal Book survey will know what to expect,' wrote Jed Distler in Classics Today. 'He favors less agogic manipulation and more conservative rhythmic continuity compared to Hyperion's Davitt Moroney. However, a palpable sense of controlled freedom informs Belder's subtle placement of cadences and phrase endings and his flexibly articulated ornaments.' Extracted from that critically acclaimed set, the present album presents all the pieces recorded bv Pieter-Jan Belder on the at the Albert Kiespenning organ of the Grote Kerk in Wijk bij Duurstede. The degree to which any of these pieces was written 'for organ' may remain open to question, when they could be performed, with allowance for some imaginative liberties, on any keyboard instrument, and indeed many contemporary pianists have revived Byrd's music for a new generation of listeners. Whether experienced on a Steinway or a spinet, Byrd is the first great composer for the keyboard, even when producing instrumental versions of choral anthems. Belder includes several such pieces here, which find a natural home 'in church' rather than the domestic setting of the harpsichord. Two versions of Salvator Mundi are effectively forerunners of chorale preludes; likewise three versions of Clarifica me. Several voluntaries lie no less idiomatically on the organ despite their highly florid writing, while the assorted preludes or fantasias and their companion fugues also deserve to be regarded alongside notable pre-Bachian models by Frescobaldi and Buxtehude. According to Early Music Review: 'As for performance, Belder's strength is in allowing Byrd to speak through the music rather than inflicting an interpretative regime upon the music... It remains wholeheartedly to welcome and recommend this fine discographical achievement.'