Midtown Concerts presents Orhan Memed

What better way to celebrate the inimitable William Byrd (1540–1623) than by presenting a program that puts his music in the context of the great tradition of keyboard music from sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. From the earliest piece for a plucked keyboard instrument dating from the 1540s through to the majestic suites of Henry Purcell, the contrapuntal rigor of the English is always present, along with that certain quirkiness that c...