How the World Wags

How the World Wags
Social Music for a 17th century Englishman
The City Waites - Douglas Wootton, dir.
Hyperion CDA 66008-2

Reissued as budget Helios 55013

Contents:

    Anon.
  1. Jamaica, or The Jovial Broom Man

    2. Maurice Webster
  2. Galliard

    3. Thomas Ravenscroft
  3. Who liveth so merry

    4. Anon.
  4. The Saint turned sinner

    5. Matthew Locke
  5. Ayre

    6. Thomas Ravenscroft
  6. Martin said to his man

    7. Anon.
  7. The Miller of Dee

    8. Anon.
  8. Packington's Pound

    9. Henry Purcell
  9. Pox on you for a fop

    10. John Bennet
  10. The Hunt is up

    11. Cuthbert Hely
  11. Almain

    12. Anon.
  12. The Jolly Barber

    13. Robert Johnson
  13. As I walked forth

    14. Martin Parker
  14. Seldom cleanly

    15. William Croft
  15. Sonata in G

    16. Thomas Ravenscroft
  16. Tomorrow the fox will come to town

    17. Thomas D'Urfey
  17. The Winchester Wedding

    18. Matthew Locke
  18. Saraband

    19. William Lawes
  19. Gather your rosebuds

    20. Thomas Ravenscroft
  20. A Bellman's Song

Playing time: 50'23"

Performer: The City Waites - Douglas Wootton, dir.
[Barbara Grant (soprano), Douglas Wootton (tenor, cittern), Keith Thompson (tenor/alto, violone), Nicholas Hayley (bass, violin), Jack Edwards (reader)]

Recording site and date: Unknown [1987 or prior]

Comments: Information from owned CD.

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Low and Lusty Ballads
The Elizabethan Underworld
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Songs and Music form The Court of Henry VIII
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Naxos 8.557672

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