Her Heavenly Harmony

Following the critical acclaim of their debut album ‘Music of the Realm’, The Queen’s Six return to Resonus with a programme of secular madrigals from the same six English Renaissance composers all associated with the royal court of Queen Elizabeth I, from whom the group take their name.

Entitled ‘Her Heavenly Harmony: Profane Music from the Royal Court’, The Queen’s Six present a recital of well- and lesser-known works by Morley, Weelkes, Tomkins, Byrd, Tallis and Gibbons, with various themes of ‘Royalty’, ‘Planets’, ‘Ballets’, ‘Birds and Flowers’, ‘Dedications’ and ‘Love and Death’.

Byrd:
 And think ye nymphs
 Compel the hawk
 The Eagle's force
 Ye sacred muses - an elegy for Thomas Tallis
 
Gibbons, O:
 Ah, dear heart
 Dainty fine bird
 Fair is the rose
 The Silver Swan
 
Morley:
 Arise, awake, awake
 Hard by a crystal fountain
 No, no, no, Nigella
 Now is the Gentle Season
 
Tallis:
 Cloris, when as I woo
 Like as the doleful dove
 O ye tender babes of England
 
Tomkins:
 Music divine, proceeding from above
 O let me live for true love
 See, see the shepherds' Queen
 The Fauns and Satyrs tripping
 When shall my sorrowful sighing slake
 
Weelkes:
 Death hath deprived me
 Like two proud armies
 Mars in a fury
 Thule, the period of cosmography