Join Bill for a two-week musical history tour of London. We will listen to medieval chant, folksongs, court composers and more. Bill will stroll the South Bank, now a rejuvenated part of London, but in the past home to brothels and bear fighting arenas, plus Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre. Artists of all times and disciplines wandered this district, with a bird’s-eye view of St. Paul’s Cathedral and Westminster. During the English Reformation, Anglican Chant developed with the decree that all chants were to be in English, adhering to the cadence of the spoken word. We will listen to Thomas Tallis, court composer to Henry VIII and Queen Elizabeth, hear Purcell and Elgar carry his English sound into their compositions, and Vaughan Williams’ Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, based on a psalm that starts, “Why fumeth in fight.”
London, The Music of, Part 1
Playlist
Episode 1
Anonymous: “Miri It Is While Sumer Ilast”
John Sothcott: St. George’s Canzona
Merry It Is While Summer Lasts
CRD 1112
2:34
Anonymous: Gaude, Maria virgo
Gothic Voices
Mary Star of the Sea / Gothic Voices
Linn Records 541
1:30
Dunstable, John: “Beata mater” “Ave maris stella”
Gothic Voices
Mary Star of the Sea / Gothic Voices
Linn Records 541
6:10
d’Arras, Moniot: “Ce Fut En Mai”
John Sothcott, recorder: St. George’s Canzona
Medieval Songs and Dances
CRD 3412
3:37
Anonymous: “Dou way, Robyn, Sancta mater gratiae”
Gothic Voices
Mary Star of the Sea / Gothic Voices
Linn Records 541
2:43
Anonymous: “Sumer Is Icumen In”
Alfred Deller & The Deller Consort
Alfred Deller Folk Songs & Ballads
Vanguard classics Vol 1 MC 193
1:42
Anonymous: “Sumer Is Icumen In” (Summer Is Come)
Dufay Collective & John Potter Dufay Collective
Songs and Instrumental Music From Medieval England
Chandos 9396
4:38
Anonymous: “Me Lyketh Ever Lenger The Bet”
John Sothcott, recorder: St. George’s Canzona
Merry It Is While Summer Lasts
CRD 3412
2:40
Traditional: Morris Dance, Trunkles
John Sothcott, recorder: St. George’s Canzona
Merry It Is While Summer Lasts
CRD 3412
3:06
Traditional: The Merry Sherwood Rangers
John Sothcott, recorder: St. George’s Canzona
Merry It Is While Summer Lasts
CRD 3412
3:18
Traditional: Cuckoo’s Nest
John Sothcott, recorder: St. George’s Canzona
Merry It Is While Summer Lasts
CRD 3412
2:23
Cornyshe, William: Ah, Robin
Alfred Deller & The Deller Consort
Folk Songs & Ballads
Vanguard classics Vol 1 MC 193
2:25
Phillips, Peter: Pavan, 1580
Galliard, Paven, Paget Pavan
Paget 2, Galliard
The Parley of Instruments
Consort Music by Peter Philips
Hyperion CDA 66240
12:25
Episode 2
Gibbons, Orlando: “O Clap Your Hands”
John Rutter: The Cambridge Singer
Faire Is the Heaven (Music Of The English Church)
Collegium records COLCD 107
4:41
Taverner, John: “Dum Transisset Sabbatum”
Philip Ledger: Choir of King’s College Cambridge
Music for Holy Week
EMI 5 65103 2
8:20
Dowland, John: “Lachrimae Antiquae” Pavan
Fretwork; Chirstopher Wilson, lute; Michael Chance, ct; Elizabeth Liddle, Viol
Goe Nightly Cares/ Dowland • Byrd/ Fretwork
Virgin Classics VC 7 90795 2
4:13
Bull, John: “Vaulting” Galliard, “Dr. Bull’s My Selfe”
Peter Watchorn, harpsichord
Music of Tudor and Jacobean England
Musica omnia MO0104
3:22
Tallis, Thomas: “If Ye Love Me”
John Rutter: The Cambridge Singers
Faire Is The Heaven (Music Of The English Church)
Collegium records COLCD 107
2:14
Tallis, Thomas: “Spem in alium”
Peter Phillips & The Tallis Scholars
Tallis: The Tallis Scholars Sing Thomas Tallis
Gimell 203
9:40
Tallis, Thomas: Why Fum’Th In Fight?
Robert Spano: Atlanta Symphony Chamber Chorus
Vaughan Williams Robert Spano Atlanta
Symphony Orchestra and chamber Chorus
Telarc 80676
0:57
Vaughan Williams, Ralph: Fantasia on A Theme by Thomas Tallis
Leopold Stokowski: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Dvořák: Serenade, Op. 22; Vaughan Williams:
Tallis Fantasia; Purcell: Dido & Aeneas 2008
EMI 5 66760 2
16:24
Episode 3
Dowland, John: “Lachrimæ Amantis”
John Holloway, Monika Baer, Renate Steinmann, Etc.
Pavans & Fantasies from the Age of Dowland/John Holloway
ECM 002079602
4:27
Tallis, Thomas: The Lamentations of Jeremiah –
Incipit Lamentatio Jeremiae Prohetae
Harry Christophers: The Sixteen Choir
Thomas Tallis/ Sacrede choral works/ Spem in alium
Chandos 0513
18:39
Byrd, William: “Ye sacred Muses”
Alfred Deller & The Deller Consort
William Byrd & His Age / Deller,
Wenzinger Consort Of Viols
Vanguard 8101
3:52
Byrd, William: “Miserere Mei”
John Rutter: The Cambridge Singers
Faire is the Heaven music of the English Church
Collegium records COLCD 107
3:49
Locke, Matthew: Fantasy For 2 Trebles & Bass
John Holloway, Monika Baer, Renate Steinmann, voices
Pavans & Fantasies from the Age of Dowland / John Holloway
ECM 002079602
4:11
Byrd, William: Mass for 4 voices: “Agnus Dei”
Pro Arte Singers
William Byrd The Three Masses Pro Arte Singers, Paul Hillier director
Harmonia Mundi HMU 907223
3:26
Locke, Matthew: The Broken Consort, Pt. 2,
Suite No. 2 in D Minor-major – V. Saraband
Palladian Ensemble
An Excess of Pleasure Palladian Ensemble Honest
Linn Records Hon CD 5010
1:20
Byrd, William: “Ave Verum Corpus”
John Rutter: The Cambridge Singers
Faire is the Heaven music of the English Church
Collegium records COLCD 107
3:44
Locke, Matthew: Sonata in A Major for 2
Violins & Basso continuo – II. III.
Palladian Ensemble
An Excess of Pleasure Palladian Ensemble Honest
Linn Records Hon CD 5010
3:20
Byrd, William: “Laetentur Coeli”
Harry Christophers: The Sixteen Choir
The Deer’s Cry
Coro 16140
3:20
Episode 4
Purcell, Henry: The Fairy Queen,
Z. 629, Act IV: Symphony
Scholars Baroque Ensemble
The Best of Purcell
Naxos 8.556839
6:21
Purcell, Henry & Nahum Tate: Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Overture
Kym Amps, David van Asch & Scholars Baroque Ensemble
The Best of Purcell
Naxos 8.556839
1:56
Purcell, Henry: Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626, Act III: “When I Am Laid in Earth” (Dido’s Lament)
Lynne Dawson, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Dido & Aeneas
Harmonia Mundi 901683
4:09
Purcell, Henry: Dido’s Lament From Dido & Aeneas Z626
Leopold Stokowski: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Leopold Stokowski Conductor Vaughan
Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis; Purcell (arr. Stokowski)
EMI 5 66760 2
4:55
Purcell, Henry: Abdelazar Suite, Z. 570: I. Rondeau
Jeanne Lamon & Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra
A Baroque Feast
Analekta 2 9811
1:32
Britten, Benjamin: The Young Person’s Guide to
the Orchestra: Variations and Fugue on a
Theme of Henry Purcell, Op. 34 – Theme: Allegro maestoso e largamente
Leopold Stokowski; BBC Symphony Orchestra
Stokowski Beethoven sym no 7 Britten
The young person’s guide to the orchestra
BBC BBCL 4005-2
2:40
Purcell, Henry: Fantasia in G Minor for 3 Viols, Z. 734
Fretwork
Fretwork/ Music for Viols: Purcell, Lawes, Locke, Jenkins
Virgin Classics 395164 2
2:26
Purcell, Henry: Come ye Sons…Symphony Largo-Allegro-Adagio
Mark Deller, Deller Consort, Oriana Concert Orchestra
Purcell: Come ye sons of art Alfred Deller
Vanguard classics OVC 8027
3:53
Purcell, Henry: “My Beloved”, “Spake, & Said unto me”
Mark Deller, Deller Consort, Oriana Concert Orchestra
Purcell: Come ye sons of art Alfred Deller
Vanguard classics OVC 8027
0:55
Purcell, Henry: “Music for a While”
Alfred Deller, Wieland Kuijken, William Christie
Purcell: Music for a While
Harmonia Mundi 90249
4:04
Purcell, Henry: Fantasia for Viols No. 8, Z. 739
Moscow Chamber Orchestra/Rudolf Barshai
Classical Treasures Master Series – Orchestral Masterpieces, Vol. 48
3:56
Blow, John: “So ceas’d the rival Crew when Purcell came”;
“Ah Heav’n! what is’t I Hear?”
“Epilogue: Sing, Sing ye Muses”
Gustav Leonhardt, harpsichord
John Blow: Ode on the Death of Mr. Henry Purcell
Hyperion 68149 Seon SBK 60097
9:59
Purcell, Henry: “Hear My Prayer, O Lord”, Z 14
John Rutter: The Cambridge Singers
Faire is the Heaven music of the English Church
Collegium records COLCD 107
2:32
Episode 5
Handel, GF: Solomon HWV67: The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba
Academy of St. Martin in the Field/Marriner
The World of George Frideric
London/Decca 4305002
3:19
Handel, GF: Water Music Suite #1 In F, HWV 348
I. II. Adagio E Staccato
III. Allegro, Andante, Allegro Da Capo
The English Concert/Trevor Pinnock
George Frideric Handel Water Music
Arkiv Produktion 410 525
13:16
Handel, GF: Samson: “Let The Bright Seraphim From Samson
Orchestra of St. Lukes/John Nelson; Wynton Marsalis, Kathleen Battle
Baroque Duets
Sony 46672
5:47
Handel, GF: Concerto Grosso #4 In A Minor, Op. 6/4, HWV 322 –
I. Larghetto Affetuoso
II. Allegro
III. Largo E Piano
IV. Allegro
The Academy of Ancient Music/Andrew Manze, director
Concerti Grossi, Op 6 “Twelve grand concertos in seven parts”
Harmonia Mundi 907228
10:31
Handel, GF: Music For The Royal Fireworks, HWV 351 –
IV. La Réjouissance
V. Minuets 1 & 2
Academy of St. Martin In The Fields/ Neville Marriner
Music for The Royal Fireworks / Water Music
Argo 414 596-2
4:51
Boyce, William: 01.01 – Symphony No. 1 in B-Flat
Major, Op. 2; Symphony New Year Ode
Bournemouth Sinfonietta/Ronald Thomas
The Eight Symphonies
CRD 3413
7:27
Handel, GF: Fantasia on British Sea Songs;
“See the Conquering Hero”
English Northern Philharmonia/ D. Paul
& Leeds Festival Chorus
Rule Britannia: Last Night of the Proms
Naxos 8.55981
1:20
Arne, Thomas: 01.10 – Fantasia on British Sea Songs;
VII. Rule Britannia
English Northern Philharmonia/ D. Paul; Leeds Festival Chorus
Rule Britannia: Last Night of the Proms
Naxos 8.55981
2:12