The Cries of London

The Cries of London
Fantasias by Weelkes, Dering, Ravenscroft and others
The Deller Consort, Ambrosian Singers, London Chambers Players - Alfred Deller, cond.
Vanguard « The Bach Guild » BG-563 [LP, mono, NA]
Amadeo AVR 6149 [LP, mono, continental Europe]
Vanguard (Pye) « The Bach Guild » PVL 7077 [LP, mono, UK]

Contents:

    John Cobb (17c.; ed. Denis Stevens)
  1. These Are the Cries of London Town

    2. Thomas Ravenscroft (c.1590 - c.1633; ed. Stevens)
  2. New Oysters

    3. Richard Dering (d.1630; ed. Stevens)
  3. The Cries of London

    4. Thomas Ravencroft (ed. Stevens):
  4. A Bellman's Song

    5. Anon. (ed. Stevens):
  5. New Oysters
  6. The Painter's Song

    7. William Savage (18c.; ed. Stevens)
  7. Muffins Ho!

    8. —
    Richard Dering (ed. Henry Revell)
  8. Country Cries

    9. Anon. (ed. Stevens)
  9. A Quart a Penny
  10. I Can Mend Your Tubs and Pails

    11. Edmund Nelham (ed. Stevens)
  11. Have You Any Work for the Tinker?

    12. Thomas Ravencroft (ed. Stevens)
  12. Brooms for Old Shoes

    13. Thomas Weelkes (ed. Jeremy Noble)
  13. The Cries of London

    14. Luffman Atterbury (ed. Stevens)
  14. One a Penny, Two a Penny

Performers:
[1]-[2], [5], [7], [9]-[12] The Ambrosian Singers
Denis Stevens, cond.
[3]-[4], [6], [8], [13]-[14] The Alfred Deller Consort:
Alfred Deller (counter-tenor - solo in [4]), April Cantelo (soprano - solo in [13]), Wilfred Brown (tenor - solo in [6])
London Chambers Players:
Granville Jones (violin), James Barton (violin), Patrick Ireland (viola), Kenneth Essex (viola), William Pleeth ('cello)
Alfred Deller, dir.

Playing time: ??' ??"

Recording site and date:
Europe [1956];
Rel.: 1956

Compilation:
Musical Concepts MC 193 [CDx7 + CD-ROM] Alfred Deller – The Complete Vanguard Recordings, Volume ONE: Folk Songs and Ballads

Excerpts:
[5] Vanguard « The Bach Guild » BG-606 [LP] Musical Panorama of Shakespeare's England
[1]-[6], [8]-[13] Vanguard Classics 08 5072 71 [CD] The Cries of London and other English Ballads and Folk Songs

Reviewed in:
Gramophone (Vol./#-p.): 36/424-158 (Sep 1958)

Comments:
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Pierre-F. Roberge