THE TUDORS

I Love, Alas: Elizabethan Life in Music, Song and Poetry Robert Spencer (lute), Jeremy Brett (reader), Purcell Consort of Voices; Grayston Burgess Eloquence 482 2570 (1970) 48:42 mins

The Purcell Consort’s quaint performances of lovelorn Tudor madrigals interweave with Robert Spencer’s stylish lute playing and poems by Philip Sidney, eloquently read by Jeremy Brett (aka Sherlock Holmes).