The Cries of London: Songs by Gibbons, Weelkes, Dering, East, Ravenscroft
Theater of Voices, Fretwork
1h04
Digital
HMU907214
Apple Music
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.
ORLANDO GIBBONS [1583-1625] · The Cries of London I & II (7'15) WILLIAM COBBOLD [1560-1639] · New Fashions (8'25) ORLANDO GIBBONS [1583-1625] · Fantasia a 4 for the Great Dooble-Base (5'17) THOMAS WEELKES [1576-1623] · The Cries of London (7'42) RICHARD DERING · Fantasia No.1 in 6 parts (3'07) · The City Cries (9'31) ORLANDO GIBBONS [1583-1625] · Go from my Window (4'49) MICHAEL EAST [c.1580-1648] Verse Pastorals · In the merry month of May / Corydon would kiss her then (2'41) · Sweet Muses / Aye me / My peace and my pleasure (4'42) THOMAS RAVENSCROFT [c.1582-c.1635] · The Three Ravens (5'09) RICHARD DERING · The Country Cries (5'50)
