Byrd/ Leonhardt - Harpsichord Music In Stock to Phillip Ramey's Bartokian reflections

to Phillip Ramey's Bartokian reflections

while he is in fact watching the entire world

with some familiar patterns emerging

and sets the result in a planned architectural layout

and Spring Songs (tenor)

Byrd/ Leonhardt - Harpsichord Music In Stock to Phillip Ramey's Bartokian reflectionsByrd's heyday precisely coincided with the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. She came to the throne on the death of Mary Tudor, in 1558; Byrd was then not yet twenty. And her long reign ended forty five years later, in 1603. Byrd was thus the Elizabethan composer par excellence, occupying the same role as his younger contemporary Shakespeare played in the theatre. Though he spent his whole life in the service of the Anglican Church, Byrd was born and