Pelham Humfrey: Sacred Choral Music Timothy Byram-Wigfield bringing hushed intimacy and bristling

bringing hushed intimacy and bristling excitement to some of the most gorgeously searing lines in the history of European polyphony

and his approach to these very rare pieces cannot be commended highly enough

inviting the listener into a space where reflection becomes transformation

8-9 January 2005 at St Silas the Martyr

qualities seen to be replicated in his rule-defying music

Pelham Humfrey: Sacred Choral Music Timothy Byram-Wigfield bringing hushed intimacy and bristlingSUMMARY TRACK LISTING REVIEWS INFO A protege of Henry Cooke, first director of the choir of the Chapel Royal after the restoration of the monarchy in 1660, Pelham Humfrey was part of a generation of musicians who enriched the musical life of their native England with influences drawn from continental Europe from France, where Humfrey had studied between 1664 and 1667, and from the Italian musicians at work in the London to which he returned,