℗ 2020 Delphian Records
| Released | March 22, 2020 |
| Duration | 1h 00m 04s |
| Record Label | Delphian Records |
| Catalogue No. | DCD34230 |
| Genre | Classical (Choral) |
Singing in Secret: Clandestine Catholic Music by William Byrd
The Marian Consort, Rory McCleery
Available in 44.1 kHz / 24-bit AIFF, FLAC audio formats
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1.1
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Miserere mei Deus
William Byrd; The Marian Consort; Rory McCleery |
3:04 | |||
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1.2
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Gaudeamus omnes
William Byrd; The Marian Consort; Rory McCleery |
5:10 | |||
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Mass for Four Voices
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1.3
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I. Kyrie
William Byrd; The Marian Consort; Rory McCleery |
2:00 | |||
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1.4
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II. Gloria
William Byrd; The Marian Consort; Rory McCleery |
5:54 | |||
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1.5
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Timete Dominum
William Byrd; The Marian Consort; Rory McCleery |
4:28 | |||
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1.6
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III. Credo
William Byrd; The Marian Consort; Rory McCleery |
8:12 | |||
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1.7
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Ave Maria
William Byrd; The Marian Consort; Rory McCleery |
1:58 | |||
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1.8
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Laetentur caeli
William Byrd; The Marian Consort; Rory McCleery |
3:34 | |||
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1.9
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IV. Sanctus & Benedictus
William Byrd; The Marian Consort; Rory McCleery |
3:40 | |||
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1.10
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Justorum animae
William Byrd; The Marian Consort; Rory McCleery |
2:29 | |||
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1.11
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V. Agnus Dei
William Byrd; The Marian Consort; Rory McCleery |
2:51 | |||
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1.12
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Deo gratias
William Byrd; The Marian Consort; Rory McCleery |
0:41 | |||
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1.13
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Beati mundo corde
William Byrd; The Marian Consort; Rory McCleery |
3:01 | |||
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1.14
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Infelix ego
William Byrd; The Marian Consort; Rory McCleery |
13:02 | |||
In the turbulent religious climate of Elizabethan England William Byrd wrote — and, more audaciously, published — a huge amount of music for the Catholic rite, for services which he and his fellow Catholics had to celebrate clandestinely, in the private houses and chapels of sympathetic noblemen.
The cloistered intimacy of those occasions is reenacted in The Marian Consort's performances here, and their programme also explores the more coded ways in which Byrd was able to express his faith and his commitment to the recusant cause: settings of texts which had become associated with Jesuit martyrs, or biblical pleas for divine intervention which took on new, heightened meaning in these times of persecution.
Most moving of all is the motet "Infelix ego", with Byrd weaving in homages to a still-intact tradition of Continental composers stretching back a century and a half as the text arcs from dejection and misery to repentance and finally hope made manifest in music of transformative power.
44.1 kHz / 24-bit PCM – Delphian Records Studio Masters
| Track title | Peak (dB FS) | RMS (dB FS) | LUFS (integrated) | DR | |
Album average Range of values | -1.30 -3.64 to -0.54 | -21.73 -24.33 to -18.53 | -18.09 -20.70 to -13.90 | 12 7 to 14 | |
| 1 | Miserere mei Deus | -0.57 | -22.44 | -18.9 | 12 |
| 2 | Gaudeamus omnes | -1.54 | -20.10 | -16.7 | 12 |
| 3 | I. Kyrie | -1.66 | -22.45 | -18.7 | 12 |
| 4 | II. Gloria | -0.84 | -22.21 | -18.6 | 13 |
| 5 | Timete Dominum | -0.94 | -22.29 | -18.8 | 12 |
| 6 | III. Credo | -0.54 | -20.57 | -16.9 | 13 |
| 7 | Ave Maria | -2.97 | -24.33 | -20.7 | 13 |
| 8 | Laetentur caeli | -0.58 | -22.25 | -18.8 | 12 |
| 9 | IV. Sanctus & Benedictus | -0.55 | -20.69 | -16.9 | 12 |
| 10 | Justorum animae | -2.58 | -22.20 | -18.6 | 11 |
| 11 | V. Agnus Dei | -3.64 | -23.32 | -20.0 | 12 |
| 12 | Deo gratias | -0.56 | -18.53 | -13.9 | 7 |
| 13 | Beati mundo corde | -0.61 | -21.15 | -17.6 | 11 |
| 14 | Infelix ego | -0.56 | -21.72 | -18.2 | 14 |