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Track(s) taken from CDH55013

The hunt is up

composer
John Bennet (1570-1615)
from Ravenscroft's A Brief Discource
author of text
Anonymous - traditional

The City Waites
Recording details: October 1980
Unknown, Unknown
Produced by Andrew Keener
Engineered by Tony Faulkner
Release date: January 1988
Total duration: 2 minutes 6 seconds
 

Reviews

‘Splendid, vigorous, animated, hilarious’ (Hi-Fi News)

‘Rollicking good fun’ (The Cornish Guardian)

‘Highly entertaining’ (Classical Music)
Bennet is another enigmatic figure who flourished from 1599 to 1614 and is best known for his madrigals. This song is found in Ravenscroft’s A Brief Discourse.

from notes by Douglas Wootton © 1981

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