Hyperion Records
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CDH55013
(Originally issued on CDA66008)
Helios (Hyperion's budget label)

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Recording details: October 1980
Unknown, Unknown
Produced by Andrew Keener
Engineered by Tony Faulkner
Release date: May 1999
Total duration: 49 minutes 46 seconds

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'Splendid, vigorous, animated, hilarious' (Hi Fi News)

'Highly entertaining' (Classical Music)

'Rollicking good fun' (The Cornish Guardian)

How the world wags
Social Music for a 17th-century Englishman
The City Waites
1
Jamaica, or The Jovial Broom Man, or a Kent Soldier's exact relation of all his travels in Every Nation, his famous acts are all Shown Here as in this Story doth appear 'Room for a lad that's come from seas'  [3'15]  Anonymous - Baroque
2
Galliard  [1'50]  Maurice Webster (fl1621-1636)
3
Who liveth so merry  [4'57]  Thomas Ravenscroft (c1582-c1635)
4
The Saint Turned Sinner, or The Dissenting Parson's Text Under the Quaker's Petticoats 'You friends to reformation'  [4'29]  Anonymous - Baroque
5
Ayre from 'Little Consort' Suite in G minor  [1'13]  Matthew Locke (c1621-1677)
6
Martin said to his man  [2'10]  Thomas Ravenscroft (c1582-c1635)
7
The Miller of Dee 'There was a jolly miller once'  [2'23]  Anonymous - Baroque
8
Packington's Pound  [2'12]  Anonymous - traditional
9
Pox on you for a fop  [1'56]  Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
10
The hunt is up  [2'06]  John Bennet (1570-1615)
11
Almain  [1'18]  Cuthbert Hely (fl1620-1648)
12
The Jolly Barber, or The Barber fitted by a Wanton Miss of the Town 'O Did you not hear of a Barber of late'  [3'16]  Anonymous - traditional
13
As I walked forth, or The Deceased Maiden Lover  [2'58]  Robert Johnson (c1583-1633)
14
Seldom cleanly 'Draw near you country girls'  [3'35]  Martin Parker (fl1650?-1650)
15
Sonata in G  [2'44]  William Croft (1678-1727)
16
Tomorrow the fox will come to town  [2'24]  Thomas Ravenscroft (c1582-c1635)
17
The Winchester Wedding 'At Winchester was a wedding'  [2'57]  Thomas D'Urfey (1653-1723)
18
Saraband from 'Little Consort' Suite in G minor  [1'28]  Matthew Locke (c1621-1677)
19
Gather your rosebuds  [1'29]  William Lawes (1602-1645)
20
A Bellman's Song 'Maids to bed and cover cole'  [1'06]  Thomas Ravenscroft (c1582-c1635)