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First Great Service. Responds for the Dead. Magnificat. Ave Maria

PARSONS First Great Service. Responds for the Dead. Magnificat. Ave Maria * Barnaby Smith, cond; Voces Cantabiles * NAXOS 8.570451 (69:44)

This ensemble is new, formed in 2003 by former choirboys of Westminster Abbey, including Smith, who was a soloist; but the group now has mixed adult voices, though the women project a piercing white tone. Robert Parsons (c. 1530-1572) sang at the Chapel Royal, his place being given to William Byrd at his death. He fell into the river Trent in January, a fate that so affected his confreres that they ceased to sing his music. Yet a great deal of it has somehow survived. I have over a dozen single pieces in recorded collections (the Ave Maria is the most ...

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