The sixty-eighth classical recording: #21 William Byrd - My Ladye Nevells Book
This set of works - a book with 40-something organ works and a run time of about four hours - creates an opportunity to hear a set of works that plays with an instrument in a way that goes broader than a single work. The "march before the battel" shows this off best, a aggressive, harder number with, it feels, some percussion that really adds power to the music in a way that we don't quite hear earlier. At the same time, a lot of it stays similar to what it has been the whole time and fades in the background after a while.