Children's Songs of Shakespeare's Time

Children's Songs of Shakespeare's Time
New York Pro Musica Antiqua - Noah Greenberg, dir.
Counterpoint CPT 540 [LP, mono]

Contents:

    Thomas Ravenscroft
  1. It was a frog in the well
    John Hilton
    Round: Come let us all a-maying go
    John Bartlett
    Ayre (à 2): Whither runneth my sweetheart

    2. John Bull
  2. The Duke of Brunswick's Toye (instr.)

    3. Anon.
  3. Round I: Come Robin, lend to me thy bow
    Francis Pilkington
    The messenger of the delightful spring
    Thomas Morley
    Recorder duet: Shepherd's pipe

    4. Henry Purcell:
  4. When the cock begins to crow

    5. Anon.
  5. Round II: New Oysters, New Oysters
    Martin Peerson
    Ayre: Now, robin, laugh and sing
    Thomas Ravenscroft
    Willie, prithee go to bed

    6. ----
    Anon.
  6. Round III: Hey boy ho boy, news
    Round IV: Well rung Tom Boy
    Robert Jones
    Ayre: In Sherwood lived Stout Robin Hood

    7. John Bull
  7. Gigge: Dr Bull's my selfe (instr.)

    8. Thomas Morley
  8. About the Maypole new
    William Byrd
    Round: Hey, Ho to the Greenwood Now Let Us Go

    9. Thomas Ravenscroft
  9. There were three raven sat on a tree

    10. Thomas Morley:
  10. Now is the mont of maying

    11. Giles Farnaby
  11. A dreame (instr.)

    12. Thomas Campian
  12. Ayre: Jack and Joan they think no ill
    Francis Pilkington
    Rest, sweet nymphs, let golden sleep

Playing time: ??' ??"

Performers
The New York Pro Musica [Lois Roman (soprano), Ruth Daigon (soprano), Russell Oberlin (counter-tenor), Arthur Squires (tenor), Charles Bressler (tenor), Brayton Lewis (bass), Bernard Krainis (recorder), Elizabeth Kyburg (recorder), Blanche Winogron (virginals)] - Noah Greenberg, dir.

Release date: 1957

Excerpts:
[1]-[3], [5]-[9], [11]-[12] Esoteric "Children's Series" ESJ-6 [LP, 25cm, mono] An Elizabethan Songbag for Young People
[4] Esoteric ES 519 [LP] Henry Purcell - John Blow: Instrumental and Vocal Selections
[10] Esoteric ES 520 [LP] Thomas Morley (1557-1603)

Compilation:
Everest 3145 [LP, mono] New York Pro Musica Memorial edition.
Everest 6145 [LP, electr. stereo] New York Pro Musica Memorial edition

Reviewed in:
Diapason (#-p.):
Gramophone (Vol./#-p.):

Comments:
Information from owned LP (Esoteric and Everest), MELVYL and Medieval, Renaissance Music on Long-Playing Records (# 166).

To FAQ references to this recording.

To FAQ CD index page.

Pierre-F. Roberge