THE TUDORS

Lo, Country Sports: Elizabethan Life in Music, Song and Poetry James Tyler (lute), John Neville (reader); Elizabethan Consort of Viols; Purcell Consort of Voices/grayston Burgess Eloquence 482 2562 (1971) 44:58 mins

Nearly 50 years on, these performances of Tudor madrigals reveling in all things pastoral seem a little dated, with their precious, faux rustic accents and self-conscious ‘early music sound’.