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ID: RES10164 (EAN: 5060262790687) | 1 CD | DDD Released in: 2016
- LABEL:
- Resonus Classics
- Collection:
- Renaissance
- Subcollection:
- Choir
- Composers:
- BYRD, William | GIBBONS, Orlando | MORLEY, Thomas | TALLIS, Thomas | TOMKINS, Thomas | WEELKES, Thomas
- Ensembles:
- The Queen's Six
- Other info:
The Queen's Six - Daniel Brittain & Timothy Carleston (countertenors), Nicholas Madden & Dominic Bland (tenors), Andrew Thompson & Simon Whiteley (basses)
Following on from their acclaimed debut album (Music of the Realm - RES10146), a capella vocal sextet The Queen’s Six return with a captivating exploration of secular jewels by the same six composers associated with the Tudor and Jacobean royal courts featured on that earlier recording - Thomas Tomkins, William Byrd, Thomas Morley, Thomas Weelkes, William Byrd & Thomas Tallis.
Themes as diverse as royalty, balletts, birds, the natural world, dedications and love & death serve to celebrate the immense range of this golden age of English music.
Following the critical acclaim of their debut album ‘Music of the Realm’, The Queen’s Six return to Resonus with a programme of secular madrigals from the same six English Renaissance composers all associated with the royal court of Queen Elizabeth I, from whom the group take their name.
Entitled ‘Her Heavenly Harmony: Profane Music from the Royal Court’, The Queen’s Six present a recital of well- and lesser-known works by Morley, Weelkes, Tomkins, Byrd, Tallis and Gibbons, with various themes of ‘Royalty’, ‘Planets’, ‘Ballets’, ‘Birds and Flowers’, ‘Dedications’ and ‘Love and Death’.
| 1. | Thomas Morley: Hard by a crystal fountain | 3:02 | | | 2. | Thomas Morley: Arise, awake | 2:11 | | | 3. | Thomas Tomkins: The fauns and satyrs stripping | 4:11 | | | 4. | Thomas Tallis: O ye tender babes | 1:19 | | | 5. | Thomas Weelkes: Like two proud armies | 1:35 | | | 6. | Thomas Tomkins: See, see the shepherds' Queen | 2:09 | | | 7. | Thomas Tomkins: O let me live for true love - O let me die for true love | 3:42 | | | 8. | Thomas Morley: No, no, Nigella | 1:46 | | | 9. | William Byrd: Compel the hawk | 2:53 | | | 10. | William Byrd: The eagle's force | 2:23 | | | 11. | Thomas Tallis: Like as the doleful dove | 1:28 | | | 12. | Orlando Gibbons: The silver swan | 1:55 | | | 13. | Orlando Gibbons: Dainty fine bird | 2:34 | | | 14. | Thomas Morley: Now is the gentle season | 2:49 | | | 15. | Thomas Weelkes: Thule, the period of cosmography - The Andalusian merchant | 4:01 | | | 16. | Orlando Gibbons: Fair is the rose | 3:07 | | | 17. | WIlliam Byrd: Ye sacred muses | 3:24 | | | 18. | Thomas Tomkins: Cloris when as I woo | 2:31 | | | 19. | Thomas Weelkes: Death hath deprived me | 2:20 | | | 20. | Thomas Weelkes: Mars in a fury | 1:35 | | | 21. | William Byrd: And think ye nymphs | 1:52 | | | 22. | Orlando Gibbons: Ah, dear heart | 1:58 | | | 23. | Thomas Tallis: When shall my sorrowful sighing slake | 3:48 | | | 24. | Thomas Tomkins: Music divine | 3:34 | | 'This is The Queen’s Six’s ‘difficult second album’ - their debut album (“Music of the Realm” RES10146) establishing them as the new boys on the block - and they have passed the test with flying colours.'
Early Music Review
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