Byrd Celebration: Elizabeth Weaver ~ soprano & Charles Weaver ~ lute

One of the greatest champions of William Byrd’s music in his own day was his friend Edward Paston, a member of the landed gentry of Norfolk, England. Byrd and Paston both adhered to the Roman Catholic faith which was illegal in England at that time. Paston’s remarkable private music collection includes both secular and sacred music, even large-scale choral music, preserved in intabulations for a single voice and lute, intended for entertainment a...