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- ↑ Ivan March, Edward Greenfield, Robert Layton - The Penguin Guide to Recorded Classical Music - 2008 Page 284 - "Cardinall's Musick are putting us in their debt by providing (in new editions by David Skinner) a complete recorded survey of the vocal music of William Byrd."
