Robert Fayrfax (1464 - 1521): Music for Tudor Kings & Queens Lewis Forbes London under the skilful direction

London under the skilful direction of Joseph Fort

Credit should also go to the organist Simon Hogan for his sensitive accompaniments and the closing voluntary

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

yet never seems artificial or backard-looking

texture and dynamics

Robert Fayrfax (1464 - 1521): Music for Tudor Kings & Queens Lewis Forbes London under the skilful directionSUMMARY 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