Tudor Suite was commisioned by the Harper Ensemble for a CD recording in 2000 and combines arrangements of keyboard, instrumental and choral music of the period.

A Galliards Gygge by Byrd and the anonymous Watkins Ale & The Irish Dumpe come from the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, a remarkable collection of 297 keyboard pieces of the early 17th century kept in the Fitzwilliam Library in Cambridge.

The central movement ‘Pastyme With Good Companye’ is an arrangement of music by King Henry VIII, i...