John Sheppard: Evening Canticles from the Second Service: Gemischter Chor mit Begleitung

for SSAATTBB unaccompanied These splendid and musically rewarding settings, published under the series title Chapel Royal Canticles, have been largely neglected by publishers and performers. They were almost certainly used by William Byrd as models for his own Great Service, and are therefore of prime historical importance.