Music Of The Realm: Tudor Music For Men’s Voices – The Queen’s Six

   in Early Music Today (Jun, 2015)
Six male voices, firmly rooted in the English choral tradition, singing some of the gems of the Tudor and Jacobean repertoire: on receiving this disc by the Queen’s Six, whose members are all lay clerks in the choir of St George’s Chapel, Windsor, I was immediately reminded of ‘English Renaissance’, a King’s Singers album from 1995 (and one of the first CDs I ever bought!). Apart from the overlap of only two works on both discs, the similarities end there – except to say that ‘Music of the Realm’ has given me just as great listening pleasure as the earlier album.

The Queen’s Six clearly have a great love for this …