Her Heavenly Harmony: Profane Music from the Royal Court The Queen's Six

• 1 Hard by a crystal fountain 03:02
• 2 Arise, awake 02:11
• 3 The fauns and satyrs tripping 04:11
• 4 O ye tender babes 01:19
• 5 Like two proud armies 01:35
• 6 See, see the shepherds' Queen 02:09
• 7 O let me live for true love - O let me die for true love 03:42
• 8 No, no, Nigella 01:46
• 9 Compel the hawk 02:53
• 10 The eagle's force 02:23
• 11 Like as the doleful dove 01:28
• 12 The silver swan 01:55
• 13 Dainty fine bird 02:34
• 14 Now is the gentle season 02:49
• 15 Thule, the period of cosmography / The Andalusian merchant 04:01
• 16 Fair is the rose 03:07
• 17 Ye sacred muses 03:24
• 18 Cloris when as I woo 02:31
• 19 Death hath deprived me 02:20
• 20 Mars in a fury 01:35
• 21 And think ye nymphs 01:52
• 22 Ah, dear heart 01:58
• 23 When my sorrowful sighing slake 03:48
• 24 Music divine 03:34
• Total Runtime 01:02:07

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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.

The Queen's Six:
Daniel Brittain, countertenor
Timothy Carleston, countertenor
Nicholas Madden, tenor
Dominic Bland, tenor
Andrew Thompson, bass
Simon Whiteley, bass

The Queen's Six
were established in 2008, the 450th anniversary of the accession of Queen Elizabeth I, from whom they take their name.

Based at Windsor Castle, all the members of The Queen's Six are also Lay Clerks of St George's Chapel, whose homes lie within the Castle walls. The Chapel Choir, which consists of boy trebles and twelve professional adult male singers, performs some eight services a week, as well as at private and state occasions, often before the Royal Family.

Now Dan, Tim, Nick, Dom, Andrew and Simon have come together to bring their unique style of entertainment to a much wider audience. Their repertoire extends far beyond the reach of the choir stalls: from austere early chant, florid Renaissance polyphony, lewd madrigals and haunting folk songs, to upbeat Jazz and Pop arrangements.

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