Music for Troubled Times

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York-based chamber choir, The Ebor Singers, with their director Paul Gameson, make their Resonus Classics debut with an album of works inspired by the English Civil War and, in particular, the 1644 Siege of York.

Based around the 'York' psalms of William Lawes, this fascinating recording features a programme of music that may have been performed in York's historic minster, around this time of huge political, social and religious upheaval, with music from William Byrd, Thomas Tomkins, John Hutchinson, William Child, John Wilson, Henry Lawes and George Jeffreys.

Classical Ear, October'17
...Focusing on the Siege of York in 1644 and based around the York psalms of William Lawes Music for Troubled Times finds the city's Ebor Singers in characteristically crisp form, delivering vocally blended, well- proportioned accounts of contemporary commentary.