Music of the Waits

Music of the Waits

(aka on London / Decca label: Courtly masquing ayres, and Höfische Maskenaufzüge)
Ensemble - Don Smithers dir.
Argo ZRG 646 [LP]
London STS 15593 [LP]
Decca Serenata SA 16 [LP]
Decca KSC 16 [Cass.]
Decca Serenata 6.42794 [LP]

Contents:

Anon.

1. Almande: Est-ce Mars ?

Robert Parsons

2. Trumpett

Giovanni Bassano

3. Oy me, Oy me dolente

Giles Farnaby

4. A maske

Orazio Vecchi

5. Saltavan ninfe

William Brade

6. Canzon

John Adson: Courtly Masking Ayres à 6

7. Ayre I
   Ayre II
   Ayre III
   Ayre IV
   Ayre V
   Ayre VI
   Ayre VII
   Ayre VIII

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John Adson: Courtly Masking Ayres à 5

8. Ayre I
   Ayre II
   Ayre III
   Ayre IV
   Ayre V
   Ayre VI
   Ayre VII
   Ayre VIII
   Ayre IX
   Ayre X
   Ayre XI
   Ayre XII
   Ayre XIII
   Ayre XIV
   Ayre XV
   Ayre XVI
   Ayre XVII
   Ayre XVIII

Playing time: CD ??' ??"

Performers:
Ensemble
David Munrow (crumhorn, racket, tenor curtal, shawm), Bernard Thomas (recorder, crumhorn), Michael Oxenham (recorder, crumhorn), Don Smithers (crumhorn, recorder, cornett, bass sordune), John Sothcott (recorder), Francis Grubb (recorder), Tess Miller (crumhorn), Michael Morrow (crumhorn, rackett, tenor curtal, shawm), James Tyler (lute, viol), Peter Owen (cornett), Alan Lumsden (sackbut), Tony Moore (sackbutt), John Pritchard (sackbut), Roderick Skeaping (violon), Penelope Howard (violin), Janet Lyman Hill (violin, viola), Adam Skeaping (violone, viol), Jane Ryan (viol)
Don Smithers, dir.

Recording site and date: Unknown [06/1969];
Rel.: 1970 (Argo), 1982 (Decca), 1983 (London)

Excerpts:
[1], [4], [5] Boston Skyline BSD 121 Now make we merthe - Medieval English Lyrics, Rounds and Carols
[1], [3]-[8] Boston Skyline BSD 138 Renaissance Music of the High Renaissance Vol. 2

Reviewed in:
Gramophone (Vol./#-p.): 48/565- (june 1970)
Diapason (#-p.):
Fanfare ( #-p):

Comments: Information from owned Argo LP and Boston Skyline CDs; also from Steven McCann for Decca re-issue and Liesbeth van der Sluijs for few mispelling.

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