Steven Rickard, the alto voice on the YouTube clip, is a superb singer - and the sound is perfectly in tune with the music of the period.

If you don't like him, then you almost certainly won't like Alfred Deller, counter-tenor, and another superb singer who, almost single-handedly and with the Deller Consort, reintroduced the counter-tenor voice to English music.

It's good stuff and - to my mind - has more feeling and lyricism than any attempts by Gordon Sumner to reinterpret it.

All personal taste, of course.