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| An Excellent Medley View full details - including track listing, sleeve notes, and listen to clips. Named after a 1615 ballad, this programme contains music from the Tudor and Jacobean periods, including a medley of lutesongs, broadside ballads, theatre songs, madrigals, consort songs, divisions, masque music, dances and a penitential psalm. As ever, it is a collection of music that we take delight in and hope you do too – we make no excuse for the jumble! Read full sleeve notes |
An Excellent Medley - CD |
| Christmas
music in Shakespeare's England View full details - including track listing, sleeve notes, and lyrics. 'Books of Christmas carols were printed throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. These editions usually lack melodies to go with the words although the indication ‘to the tune of’ is sometimes printed at the top of the carol. The word ‘carol’ probably comes from the medieval Latin ‘carula’ which has interchangeable meanings of a round dance or a song and as such it is fitting that so many carols may be set to popular dance and ballad tunes. We begin then with a medley of such tunes, all with Christmas associations...' Read full sleeve notes |
Christmas Music In |
| Gallimaufry View full details - including track listing, sleeve notes, and listen to clips. Gallimaufry was recorded at the archeological site of the Rose Theatre in February 2005 – the first recording ever to take place in that venue. ‘Gallimaufry, n. Heterogeneous mixture, jumble, hodgepodge,
ridiculous medley, 1551’ OED |
Gallimaufry - CD |
| An Excellent Medley View full details - including track listing, sleeve notes, and listen to clips. Named after a 1615 ballad, this programme contains music from the Tudor and Jacobean periods, including a medley of lutesongs, broadside ballads, theatre songs, madrigals, consort songs, divisions, masque music, dances and a penitential psalm. As ever, it is a collection of music that we take delight in and hope you do too – we make no excuse for the jumble! Read full sleeve notes |
An Excellent Medley - CD |
