Sarum Consort, Andrew MacKay - All the Queen's Men: Music for Elizabeth I (2011)

Tracklist

01. As Vesta was, from Latmos hill descending
02. Hark! Did ye ever hear so sweet a singing?
03. O Lord, make thy servant Elizabeth the Queen
04. O Clap Your Hands
05. Variation on Robin is to the greenwood gone
06. So Beautie On the Waters Stood
07. Laboravi In Gemitu Meo
08. Hence Stars, Too Dim of Light
09. Oft have I vowde
10. Book of Songs, Book 3: Time stands still
11. Adue, Ye Citty Prisoning Towers
12. Yee That Doe Live In Pleasures
13. Dowland's Bells, P. 43a, "The Lady Rich's Galliard"
14. Hard By a Cristall Fountaine
15. Draw On Sweet Night

‘The Virgin Queen’ Elizabeth I was the focal-point of all England; the subject, dedicatee and audience for much of the music composed and performed throughout her long and now legendary reign. The music on this album, chosen for a concert of words and music devised for the Sarum Consort by Deborah Mackay, includes sacred and secular pieces by composers from Byrd to Weelkes. The Sarum Consort, whose performances have been hailed as ‘exhilarating’ (Gramophone) and ‘magical’ (BBC Radio 3 Record Review), here makes its Naxos début under founding musical director Andrew Mackay.

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