Music for Troubled Times: The English Civil War & Siege of York

Byrd: O Lord, make thy servant Elizabeth (‘O Lord, make thy servant Charles’)

Child, W: O Lord God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance

Hutchinson, J: Behold, how good and joyful a thing it is

Jeffreys, G: How wretched is the state

Lawes, H: A Funeral Anthem

Lawes, W: Psalm 100 – All people that on earth do dwell Lord, in thy wrath, Psalm VI O God my strength and fortitude, Psalm XVIII/1 See how Cawood’s dragon looks Psalm 67 – Have mercy on us, Lord Psalm 22 – O God, my God Music, the master of thy art is dead

Tomkins: A sad Pavan for these distracted times How doth the city sit solitary

Wilson, John: My God, my King, incline thine ear

York-based chamber choir, The Ebor Singers, with their director Paul Gameson, make their Resonus Classics debut with an album of works inspired by the English Civil War and, in particular, the 1644 Siege of York. Based around the ‘York’ psalms of William Lawes, this fascinating recording features a programme of music that may have been performed in York’s historic minster. Around this time of huge political, social and religious upheaval.