Music of the Realm Tudor Music for Men’s Voices The Queen's Six

• 1O Lord, make thy servant, Elizabeth03:04
• 2Laboravi in gemitu meo05:31
• 3Almighty God, the fountain of all wisdom05:36
• 4Videte miraculum09:34
• 5Haec dies02:15
• 6O how amiable are thy dwellings03:08
• 7Attend mine humble prayer02:57
• 8Almighty and everlasting God02:14
• 9When David heard04:11
• 10When David heard03:55
• 11O Jonathan, woe is me02:11
• 12Haec dies01:27
• 13O Lord, in thy wrath03:10
• 14O sacrum convivium03:37
• 15O amica mea06:01
• 16Turn unto the Lord02:26
• 17Lift up your heads02:36
• Total Runtime01:03:53

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The Queen’s Six releases their debut album with a sumptuous selection of music from the golden age of English polyphony.

Recorded in the extraordinary surroundings of St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle – where each member of The Queen’s Six is a Lay Clerk – Music of the Realm features six composers associated with the royal court of Queen Elizabeth I, from whom the group gets its name.

For their first Resonus album the group have selected a programme of both well and lesser-known works by six composers who wrote music for and during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I – William Byrd, Thomas Tallis, Thomas Tomkins, Thomas Weelkes, Thomas Morley and Orlando Gibbons. The recording is accompanied by an essay from early music scholar and conductor, Peter Phillips.

„The close musical rapport that develops when six men sing together every day, as the Queen’s Six do, is very much in evidence on this, their impressive debut album, recorded at St George’s Chapel, Windsor, where they are lay clerks in the choir. They bring seamless blend and balance to music from the reign of Elizabeth I, from whom they take their name. Tallis, Byrd, Tomkins, Morley, Gibbons and Weelkes are all represented, with the familiar set against some rarer examples – for instance Morley’s O amica mea, a gloriously sensual setting of frankly comic words from the Song of Songs: “O my love, your hair is like a flock of goats moving down Mount Gilead”.“ (Stephen Pritchard, The Guardian)

Daniel Brittain, countertenor
Timothy Carleston, countertenor
Nicholas Madden, tenor
Dominic Bland, tenor
Andrew Thompson, baritone, bass
Simon Whiteley, baritone, 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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