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FORTUNE MY FOE lasts 65 minutes, and has 26 tracks of mostly popular music from around 1605.
Tunes include The Hunt is up, Woods so Wild, Pepper is Black, Sellenger's Round, Grimstock, Packington's Pound, Kemp's Jig, Millfield, Greensleeves, Bartholomew Fair, Lord Willoughby, Nutmeg and Ginger, Jew's Dance, Goe from my Window, Nobody's Jig, to name a few.
As well as the usual array of instruments, we include the violin playing of Susan Marshall.
Booklet notes and track listing
Sound samples
Beautiful Jo Records (tel: 01865 249194
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Reviews:
Times Educational Supplement
The Waits Website
Folk London
Shire Folk Magazine
fROOTS magazine
The Living Tradition (issue 68)
Stirrings (issue 127)
"This collection is delightful – a good blend of sprightly dance tunes and more serious works, rendered on a wide variety of instruments.... It all makes for a rich and absorbing experience." – Green Man Review, USA.
To read the entire review, go to http://www.greenmanreview.com/cd/cd_rt_period_omni_2_06.html
MUSIC FROM THE TIME OF RICHARD III
Late Medieval sounds
Saydisc Records: CDSDL364, CSDL364
Available from: Lindum Records
1588
Music From The Time Of The Spanish Armada
Elizabethan ballads & dances
Saydisc Records: CDSDL373, CSDL373
Available from: Lindum Records
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The disc takes its name from a riotous Christmas celebration that took place in York before it was banned by a Puritan Archbishop in the 1570s. The recording begins dramatically with the ancient Yoole-girthol proclamation which welcomed "beggars, whores, thieves and dice players" to the city during the Twelve Days of Yule. The CD includes English medieval and renaissance Christmas music plus material from throughout Europe. Instruments include shawms, sackbut, recorders, flute, harp, lute, guitar, cittern and hurdy gurdy. The Waits are joined by the soprano Deborah Catterall who also performed with the band on its Yule Riding series of concerts. See William Marshall's programme notes. Also, see the Pictures page for more on the Yule Riding.
Brian Kay featured four tracks from Yule Riding on his BBC Radio 3 Sunday afternoon show "3 For All" at 4 pm on 5th December.
Just before Christmas 2004, The Yorkshire Evening Press published a review of Yule Riding in which we got five stars, whereas Frank Sinatra and The Beach Boys got only three a piece! James boasted about this to the audience during our concert at York Early Music Centre and they applauded heartily. After the concert, a certain Martin Dreyer (see reviews) came to buy a CD and introduce himself as the awarder of the five stars. James, who was manning the CD sales table, thanked him for championing The York Waits and our music for many years (decades!) and in reply he vouchsafed that he was to be the reviewer for the present concert and promised a good write-up. He kept that promise.
Beautiful Jo Records (tel: 01865 249194
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Sound samples
Reviews:
Times Educational Supplement
Yorkshire Evening Post
The Waits Website
A GOLDEN TREASURY OF ELIZABETHAN MUSIC
Includes tracks from The York Waits’ records above
Saydisc Records: CDSAR62, CSAR62
Available from: Lindum Records
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Digitally remastered recordings dating from 1991, mainly of pieces from Playford, including The Punk's Delight, Cuckolds All A-Row and many more.
This recording is released as a memorial to Ian Richardson,
one of The York Waits since 1977, who died 4th August 2007.
Sound sample - Ian playing Grimstock
Available now from Brewhouse Music
Tel 0044(0)1353 720309 email
Review - English Dance & Song
CHRISTMAS
MUSICKE
by The York Waits with Deborah Catterall, mezzo soprano
Brewhouse Music: BHCD9607.
THE CITY
MUSICKE
Wind bands of Renaissance Europe, 1550-1600
Brewhouse Music: BHCD9409, BHC9409
THE
PUNK'S DELIGHT
Dances of 17th century England - mainly Playford
CD1, C1
OLD
CHRISTMAS RETURN'D
Vocal and instrumental music of Christmases long past
Saydisc Records: CDSDL398, CSDL398
Available from: Lindum Records
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