Bach Collegium San Diego launches the BCSD TWENTYONE Bach at Noon series with a tribute to William Byrd (c.1540-1623), marking the quadricentennial of his death. Though among the most celebrated and influential composers of his day, in one way Byrd was an outsider to the mainstream: he was a Catholic in the wake of the rupture of the Church of England from Rome. Byrd is the Wyrd features some of Byrd’s most important contributions to both the Anglican and Catholic liturgical music repertories, including the Mass for Four Voices, and the Magnificat from the Great Service. 

William Byrd: Mass for Four Voices
Retire my Soul 
O Lord, make thy servant Elizabeth
Ye Sacred Muses
Sing Joyfully 
Magnificat (from the Great Service)

Ruben Valenzuela, director