The English Stage Jig: Musical comedies from the 16th and 17th centuries for the Merriment and Delight of Wise Men and the Ignorant
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The English Stage Jig: Musical comedies from the 16th and 17th centuries for the Merriment and Delight of Wise Men and the Ignorant
The City Waites / Lucie Skeaping (director)
[ Hyperion / CD ]
Release Date: Wednesday 20 May 2009
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"These performers are well-renowned for championing the popular music of earlier centuries… the singing and instrumental performances are as genially accomplished as ever with The Waites." BBC Music Magazine, May 2009 ****
An unusual and delightfully bawdy offering from the irrepressible Lucie Skeaping and her collaborators The City Waites.
Today we think of a jig as simply a dance, but in late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England the word was used to describe a short musical farce featuring songs, dancing and slapstick comedy. By 1590 Jigs were thoroughly established in the London theatres as the standard ending or Afterpiece to more serious theatrical fare; they could be satirical, sentimental, libellous, riotous and often downright obscene, offering a shameless and frequently subversive antidote to the plays which preceded them. The characters are cuckolded husbands, adulterous wives, milkmaids, whores, city wide-boys, muggers and thieves, the plots often taken from folk tales but updated for city audiences with slapstick and comic twists of fate.
These jigs all appear here in their premiere recordings. In committing these works to disc for the first time, Lucie Skeaping has given us a unique and tantalising glimpse of theatrical history. Artfully presented and recorded, they contain all the quick-fire banter, robust language and delight in linguistic play that marked the age, all set to some of the most delightful popular tunes England has ever produced.
An entertaining cameo from Catherine Bott is among the many uproarious performances.
Tracks:
The Black Man Anonymous - Baroque
1 Part 01: Quoth John to Joan 'Sweet Susan, remember the words I have said (Thumpkin/Susan)' [2'40]
Thomas Padden (baritone), Lucie Skeaping (soprano)
2 Part 02: The Indian Queen 'Y'are well overtaken-wither, sir, so fast? (Gentleman 1/Thumpkin/Gentleman 2)' [1'51]
Roddy Skeaping (baritone), Thomas Padden (baritone), Simon Grant (baritone)
3 Part 03: Prithee love turn to me 'Come sweetheart, look not sadly (Gentleman 2/Susan/Gentleman 1)' [1'20]
Simon Grant (baritone), Lucie Skeaping (soprano), Roddy Skeaping (baritone)
4 Part 04: Walsingham 'As ye came from Walsingham (Thumpkin/Gentleman 2/Gentleman 1)' [3'03]
Thomas Padden (baritone), Simon Grant (baritone), Roddy Skeaping (baritone)
5 Part 05: Jog On 'Jog on, jog on, my pretty Susan (Thumpkin/Susan/Gentleman 1/Gentleman 2)' [1'19]
Thomas Padden (baritone), Lucie Skeaping (soprano), Roddy Skeaping (baritone), Simon Grant (baritone)
6 Part 06: Prince Rupert's March 'In this same plight, sir, thus disquis'd (Gentleman 1/Thumpkin/Gentleman 2)' [1'33]
Roddy Skeaping (baritone), Thomas Padden (baritone), Simon Grant (baritone)
7 Part 07: Greys Inn Mask 'Come buy a brush for all your cloathes (Brush/Thumpkin)' [2'16]
Johnson Willis (baritone), Thomas Padden (baritone)
8 Part 08: Heartsease 'O woe is me (Thumpkin)' [1'38]
Thomas Padden (baritone)
9 Part 09: The Gelding of the Devil 'Black do I cry, will you any of me buy? (The Black Man/Thumpkin)' [1'30]
Douglas Wootton (tenor), Thomas Padden (baritone)
10 Part 10: Grim King of the Ghosts 'Man, forbear this place (Thumpkin/The Black Man)' [2'15]
Thomas Padden (baritone), Douglas Wootton (tenor)
11 Part 11: Peg a Ramsey 'Our sentinel keeps well his standing (Gentleman 1/The Black Man/Gentleman 2/Thumpkin)' [2'18]
Roddy Skeaping (baritone), Douglas Wootton (tenor), Simon Grant (baritone), Thomas Padden (baritone)
12 The Merry Wooing of Robin and Joan 'Sellengers Round' 'O mother, chave bin a batchelour (Robin/Mother/Joan Gromball)' [6'21] Anonymous - Baroque
Douglas Wootton (tenor), Thomas Padden (baritone), Lucie Skeaping (soprano)
Singing Simpkin Will Kemp (?-?)
13 Part 1: The Crost Couple 'Blind Cupid hath made my heart for to bleed (Wife/Simpkin)' [1'54]
Lucie Skeaping (soprano), Thomas Padden (baritone)
14 Part 2: Prince Rupert's March 'There is a Royster at the door (Servant/Simpkin/Wife/Bluster/Old Husband' [7'22]
Douglas Wootton (tenor), Thomas Padden (baritone), Lucie Skeaping (soprano), Simon Grant (baritone), Roddy Skeaping (baritone)
15 The Bloody Battle at Billingsgate 'The Orange - Hit and Miss' 'One morning of late, hard by Billingsgate (Onlooker/Doll/Kate)' [6'10] Anonymous - Baroque
Douglas Wootton (tenor), Lucie Skeaping (soprano), Catherine Bott (soprano)
The Cheaters Cheated Thomas Jordan (c1614-1685)
16 Part 01: The Friar and the Nun 'Good morrow fellow Filcher (Nim/Filcher)' [3'28]
Douglas Wootton (tenor), Thomas Padden (baritone)
17 Part 02: Upon a Summers Day - Kemp's Jig 'Our Taunton den is a dungeon (Wat)' [3'45]
Jonathan McGovern (baritone)
18 Part 03: The Friar and the Nun 'The rainbow never knew (Filcher/Nim/Wat)' [1'57]
Thomas Padden (baritone), Douglas Wootton (tenor), Jonathan McGovern (baritone)
19 Part 04: Jack a Lent 'Quick let us share (Filcher/Nim)' [1'50]
Thomas Padden (baritone), Douglas Wootton (tenor)
20 Part 05: The Carman's Whistle 'Soldiers fight and Hectors rant on (Moll Medlar)' [1'55]
Lucie Skeaping (soprano)
21 Part 06: Stingo - Half Hanekin 'I can dance and I can sing (Moll Medlar/Wat)' [6'01]
Lucie Skeaping (soprano), Jonathan McGovern (baritone)
22 Part 07: The Gelding of the Devil 'Oh wo, wo, wo, what zhall chee do? (Wat/Baby)' [2'19]
Jonathan McGovern (baritone), Roddy Skeaping (baritone)
23 Part 08: Argeers 'We shall ne're have lucky minuit (Filcher/Nim)' [2'36]
Thomas Padden (baritone), Douglas Wootton (tenor)
24 Part 09: Cavalilly Man 'Now farawel Lungeon, iche may zing (Wat/Filcher/Nim/Moll Medlar/Baby)' [7'41]
Jonathan McGovern (baritone), Thomas Padden (baritone), Douglas Wootton (tenor), Lucie Skeaping (soprano), Roddy Skeaping (baritone)
25 Part 10: Upon a Summers Day 'Ch'ave overcome my voes (Wat/Company)' [2'46]
Jonathan McGovern (baritone)
