![]() ![]() ![]() In doing so it celebrates in music the brilliant, iconic figure of Henry V, hero of Agincourt and the French campaigns the obviously unheroic but still culturally and religiously influential figure of his son, Henry VI and finally the perhaps unlikely figure they both revered: John Thwenge (Thwing), a fourteenth-century Augustinian prior who, as St John of Bridlington, was to be the last English saint canonized prior to the Reformation. Above all, it seeks to evoke the vocal and ceremonial beauty of their household chapels. This recording documents in sound something of the cultural seriousness and panache of the royal princes of the House of Lancaster.
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