Title: Bawdy Ballads of Old England - 17th Century Songs & Dances Artist: The City Waites & Lucie Skeaping Label: Alto Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 5055354413827 Genre: Classical Artists Release Date: 2019-05-03 Number of Discs: 1
"it is no good having lewd words one cannot hear... so full marks for the City Waites and their swinging dialect style... items are sometimes accompanied, sometimes not, and this nicely provides contrast, but they are made into lively entertainments" (Penguin Guide 3*) "a taste of the broadside ballad culture which pervaded the Restoration... The Maid's Complaint is a remarkably spontaneous scene, led by soprano Lucie Skeaping complete with a bunch of drunks who join in, late... Good fun but not very clean!" (Gramophone) "good diction allows particular clarity" (MusicWeb)
Tracks: 1.1 Diddle Diddle or the Kind Country Lovers 1.2 The Fair Maid of Lslington 1.3 Green Stockings 1.4 The Jovial Lass or Dol and Roger 1.5 Mundanga Was 1.6 Lady of Pleasure 1.7 The Old Wife 1.8 The Beehive 1.9 Blue Petticoats or Green Garters 1.10 The Gelding of the Devil 1.11 The Maid's Complaint for Want of a Dil Doul 1.12 Oyster Nan 1.13 The Frolic 1.14 The Husband Who Met His Match 1.15 The Jovial Broom Man 1.16 The Disappointment 1.17 The Lusty Young Smith 1.18 Greensleeves and Yellow Lace 1.19 The Jolly Brown Turd 1.20 Two Rounds: Tom Making a Manteau 1.21 When Celia Was Learning 1.22 Lady Lie Near Me 1.23 Oh How You Protest 1.24 A Ditty Delightful of Mother Watkin's Ale 1.25 Miss Nelly
