2006

The Cries of London

Track List

  1. Orlando Gibbons: The Cries of London: I & II

  2. William Cobbold: New Fashions

  3. Orlando Gibbons: Fantasia a 4 for the Great Dooble-Base

  4. Thomas Weelkes: The Cries of London

  5. Richard Dering: Fantasia No. 1 in 6 parts

  6. Richard Dering: The City Cries

  7. Orlando Gibbons: Go from my Window

  8. Michael East: In the merry month of May / Corydon would kiss her then from Verse Pastorals

  9. Michael East: Sweet Muses / Aye me / My peace and my pleasure from Verse Pastorals

  10. Thomas Ravenscroft: The Three Ravens

  11. Richard Dering: The Country Cries

 

Theatre of Voices and Fretwork are heard in a selection of the Cries of London, in which music for viol consort is overlaid - sometimes comically, sometimes poignantly - with the raucous voices of 16th-century London's street-vendors, mendicants, tradesmen and river-taxis.

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