Typhoid probably took the life of the teenage Prince Henry after an ill-advised dip in the filthy Thames in 1612. An outpouring of grief-stricken music ensued, far outweighing that written for Elizabeth I, a measure of the hopes the nation had placed in this future king. The lithe voices of Gallicantus introduce us to some remarkable but neglected motets and lute songs composed in Henry's honour, several of them, by Tomkins, Weelkes, Ramsey and Dering, setting the David/Absalom story in recognition of the enmity that existed between Henry and his father, James I. Glorious, vibrato-free singing here, as smooth as the surface of the river that killed a king.