William Byrd

A sprinkle of experimentation, a dash of nonconformity – it’s of all times. And it’s what makes music so lively. The three gentlemen of Phantasm present a pretty daring programme. Because in 16th-century England, too, you had musical adventurers: from Tye to Purcell, from Tomkins to Gibbons. This programme also features a lot of William Byrd, called the ‘Father of English Music’, and rightly so. The most beautiful counterpoint leads to exciting situations. Counterpoint (‘point against point’) is the art of weaving melodies together in such a way that they sound good both individually and as a whole. And no matter what path you take, it will all be okay; or as composer Christopher Tye instructed: ‘Sing ye true and care not, for I am true, fear not.’