It’s like the teacher’s pet bursting out in a hail of expletives, or a Hollywood good girl gone suddenly bad: there’s a transgressive thrill to hearing choristers singing pop music, a frisson of naughtiness to cathedral countertenors crooning out American chart-toppers with their perfect English vowels. We get it from The King’s Singers and the Swingles, and Voces8 are making a signature of rolling up their musical skirts and slipping from polyphony to pop. Now it’s the turn of The Queen’s Six, whose ‘From Windsor With Love’ is keen to prove that they too know how to let the motets go and have a musical party.

It starts brilliantly. There’s wit as well as a wonderfully knowing quality to the opener. Miguel Esteban’s arrangement of Belinda Carlisle’s ‘Heaven is a place on earth’ plays with expectation, teasing the listener with counterpoint that’s a little Palestrina and a lot Allegri before whipping off the musical cassock and revealing the Carlisle underneath. Switching back and forth between worlds, gradually the music fuses them, giving us expansive, impeccable pop. It’s exhilarating, and beautifully delivered by the group, particularly countertenors Tom Lilburn and Dan Brittain, shades of vintage David Hurley in their fluting purity.

But then things settle into less of a groove than a rut. Much of the repertoire – ‘Make me feel your love’, ‘Stand by me’, ‘Just the two of us’, ‘Just the way you are’ – has already been extensively a cappella d, while the more unusual offerings – Sufjan Stevens’s ‘Mystery of love’, The Proclaimers’ ‘500 miles’ – tend to appear in rather literal arrangements: more wedding disco than Wigmore Hall.

So I suppose it comes down to what you want from your close harmony. If it’s slick performances and chameleon performers, code-switching plausibly from rock to pop to funk and jazz, then ‘From Windsor With Love’ will hit the spot. This is pop perfectly translated for the concert hall. But if it’s arrangements that take familiar songs into new musical spaces, that play with harmony, taking an original and making it new, then this isn’t it.