(Michael Sargeant has also recorded with St George's Canzona.. Lucie Skeaping, Roddy Skeaping)
| Title. | year. | Label. | number. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Low and Lusty Songs | |||
| Two Handfuls Long Sir | |||
| Music From The Court of Henry VIII | |||
| Lads and Lasses | |||
| Ghosts Witches and Demons | 1995 | Sound Alive | SAMPP CD 401-2 |
| Christmas Now Is Drawing Near | |||
| How The World Wags | 1982 | ||
| Pills To Purge Melancholy | 1990 | ||
| A Madrigal For All Seasons | |||
| Music Of The Stuart Age | |||
| Music of The Tudor Age | |||
| Bawdy Ballads of Old England (*) | 1995 | Regis | RRC 1175 |
| The English Tradition: 400 Years of Music & Song | 2000 | ARC | |
| Penny Merriments | 2004 | Naxos | |
| Sorcery and Spectres | 2005 | ||
| Lusty Songs and Country Dances | 2007 | Regis | |
| The English Stage Jig | 2009 | Hyperion |
(* The design of this album makes it look as if the name of the group is "The Mufitians of Grope Lane".)
"Bawdy Ballads of Old England"Recorded 1995. Running time 74 minutes 25 seconds. Lucy Skeaping (soprano, baroque violin), Douglas Wootton (tenor, lute, bandora, cittern, tabor), Roddy Skeaping (baroque, violin, bass viol, voice, musical arrangements), Michael Brain (baroque bassoon, recorders, voice), Rubin Jeffrey (baroque guitar, cittern), Mike Sargeant (early Northumbrian bagpipes, Flemish bagpipes), David Chatterley (hurdy-gurdy).
Title. | Author. |
| 1. Diddle Diddle or The Kind Country Lovers | Text: Pepys collection. Tune: Lavenders Green |
| 2. The Fair Maid of Islington | Text: Bagford Ballads. Tune: Sellinger's Round |
| 3. Green Stockings (instr) | Playford's Dancing Master |
| 4. The Jovial Lass or Dol and Roger | Text: Pepys collection. Tune: Robin Hood and the Stranger |
| 5. Mundanga Was | Text: Thomas Durfey. Tune: Anon |
| 6. Lady of Pleasure (instr) | Playford's Dancing Master |
| 7. The Old Wife | Text: Thomas Durfey. Tune: Anon |
| 8. The Beehive | Thomas Durfey |
| 9. Blue Petticoats or Greengarters (instr) | Playford's Dancing Master |
| 10. The Gelding of the Devil | Text: trad. Tune: Thomas Durfey |
| 11. The Maid's Complaint for Want of a Dil Doul | Text: Pepys Collection. Tune: Packington's Pound |
| 12. Oyster Nan | Thomas Durfey |
| 13. The Frolic (instr) | Playford's Dancing Master |
| 14. The Husband who met his Match | Text: Roxburghe Ballads. Tune: Calleno |
| 15. The Jovial Broom Man | Text: Roxburghe Ballads. Tune: Jamaica |
| 16. The Disappointment | Thomas Durfey |
| 17. The Lusty Young Smith | Thomas Durfey |
| 18. Greensleeves and Yellow Lace (instr) | Playford's Dancing Master |
| 19. The Jolly Brown Turd | Thomas Durfey |
| 20. Two Rounds: (a) Tom Making a Manteau; (b) When Celia was Learning | (a) Henry Purcell (b) John Ishem |
| 21. Ladie Lie Near Me (instr) | Playford's Dancing Master |
| 22. Oh how you Protest | Text: Thomas Durfey. Tune: Henry Purcell |
| 23. A Ditty Delightful of Mother Watkin's Ale | Text: Huth Collection. Tune: Fiztwilliam Virginal Book |
| 24. Miss Nelly | Playford's Dancing Master |
(Sources - Texts:
- Pepys Collection (tracks 1, 4 and 10)
- John Bagford (1650 - 1716) (tracks 2 and 11)
- Thomas Durfey's "Pills to Purge Melancholy" (published 1698-1720)
(tracks 5, 7, 8, 12, 16, 17, 19 and 22)
- Roxburghe Ballads (track 14)
- attributed to Henry Purcell (1659 - 1695) (track 20a)
- John Ishem (track 20b)
- Huth collection of Seventy-Nine Blackletter Ballads (track 23)
Sources - Tunes
- E.F. Rimbault's "Nursery Rhymes" c 1846 (track 1)
- "Sellinger's Round", found in John Playford's "The Dancing
Master" 2nd edition 1652 (track 2)
- John Playford's "The Dancing Master" 5th edition 1675 (track 3)
- "Robin Hood and the Stranger" from the ballad opera "The Jovial Crew" (1731) (track 4)
- From the play "Don Quixote" (tracks 5 and 7)
- John Playford's "The Dancing Master" 7th edition (1668) (tracks 6 and 24)
- Thomas Durfey's "Pills to Purge Melancholy" (published 1698-1720)
(tracks 8, 12, 16, 17 and 19)
- John Playford's " The Dancing Master" 4th edition (1670) (tracks 9,
18 and 19)
- "Packington's Pound" (track 11)
- John Playford's " The Dancing Master" 11th edition (1701) (track 13)
- "Calleno" (track 14)
- attributed to Henry Purcell (1659 - 1695) (track 20a)
- John Ishem (track 20b)
- John Playford's " The Dancing Master" 1st edition (1651) (track 21)
- Henry Purcell's music for the play the "Mock Marriage" (1695) (track
22)
- Fitzwilliam Virginal Book (track 23)
Last updated on 03/10/2010