Red Byrd believe that the point of singing the music of the past is to illuminate the present, and take every opportunity to present new music. Its constant members are John Potter and Richard Wistreich. Stephen Johnson and Jason Darnell join them for music by the Notre Dame composers Leoninus and Perotinus, and for works commissioned by the group from Nigel Osborne and John Surman. Anna Maria Friman joins John and Richard, as in the photo, for English and Italian music from around 1600, and for Gavin Bryars' Third Book of Madrigals - settings of JM Synge's translations of sonnets by Petrarch. Red Byrd have visited a dozen other countries - Canada, the USA, Ireland, France, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Italy and Finland - and record for Hyperion. The group's BBC Radio 3 broadcasts have ranged from Landini via Palestrina, Dowland, Byrd and Purcell to Thea Musgrave. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Red+Byrd">Read more on Last.fm</a>. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.