Robert Fayrfax (1464 - 1521): Music for Tudor Kings & Queens Lewis Forbes I think Benjamin Britten would

I think Benjamin Britten would have loved this album and that he’d rejoice to know that these young people are being so effectively trained

particularly Werner's own compositions

are ideally suited to the delivery of Hughes’s diverse language

The vast range of Britten’s choral output encompasses work to match the character of each of the different choirs

eloquent legato

Robert Fayrfax (1464 - 1521): Music for Tudor Kings & Queens Lewis Forbes I think Benjamin Britten wouldSUMMARY TRACK LISTING REVIEWS INFO In that golden age of British choral music half a millennium ago, when polyphonic voices soared in the vaulting of the great late Gothic churches and chapels that seemed to have been built for them to fill, one composer was in especial favour with the royal family: Robert Fayrfax. A newly reconstructed movement from a mass for the private wedding of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon, later treasured in darker times