Robert Fayrfax (1464 - 1521): Music for Tudor Kings & Queens Lewis Forbes Credit should also go to

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

What makes Sherratt special is his careful avoidance of Gothic excess

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Robert Fayrfax (1464 - 1521): Music for Tudor Kings & Queens Lewis Forbes Credit should also go toSUMMARY 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