This hour features a new, special CD with early music. De latest CD by The Playfords is called: The Hunt is Up, Shakespeare’s Songbook.
1. Hunting the Hare – England, 17th century
2. The English Hunt’s Up – John Whitfelde, Jane Pickering’s Lute Book (1616)
– The Hunt Is Up – lyrics: Merry Drollery (1661), melody: Het Luitboek van Thysius (ca.1620)
– O Sweet Oliver – As You Like It
– An Old Hare Hoar – Romeo and Juliet
– Wilson’s Wilde – Sampson’s Lute Book (1616)
3. Awake Ye Woeful Wights – lyrics: Richard Edwards (1524-1566), melody: Broadside Ballad (1568)
4. Willow, Willow – lyrics+melody: Broadside Ballad (ca.1615)
5. Fortune my Foe – lyrics: ca. 1580, melody: Dallis Lute Book (1583-85)
6. Peg a Ramsey – Ballet Lute Book (c.1590-1610)
7. Sedan or Dargason – The English Dancing Master (ed. J. Playford 1651)
– Eighty-Eight – lyrics: Broadside Ballad (ca. 1630), melody: Richard Farnaby, Fitzwilliam Virginal Book (ca.1619)
– Fill the Cup – lyrics: William Shakespeare, melody: The Lant Roll (1580)
8. Broom, Broom, the Bonny, Bonny Broom – The English Dancing Master
9. O Mistress Mine – lyrics: William Shakespeare, melody: Thomas Morley (1599), William Byrd (Fitzwilliam Virginal Book)
10. You Spotted Snakes (Lull me beyond thee) – lyrics: William Shakespeare, melody: The English Dancing Master
11. Sigh No More, Ladies (Lusty Gallant) – lyrics: William Shakespeare, melody: Dallis Lute Book (1583-85)
12. Kettle Drum | Kemp’s Jig | Paul’s Steeple – The English Dancing Master (ed. J. Playford 1651)
13. Scottish Hunt’s Up – Richard Mynshall Lute Book (1597-1600)
– When that I Was (Tom Tinker) – lyrics: William Shakespeare, melody: The English Dancing Master
The Playfords: Björn Werner – singing
Annegret Fischer – recorder
Erik Warkenthin – renaissance lute and baroque guitar
Benjamin Dressler – viola da gamba and violone
Nora Thiele – percussion, colascione
(Raumklang RK 3404, 2015)
Extra of CD Oranges & Lemons, the Playfords:
From John Playford, The English Dancing Master:
14. Bellamira / Bobbing Joe
15. Scotch Cap
16. Epping Forrest (supplement)
The Playfords
(Coviello COV 20709, 2007)
