The Queen's Delight
English Songs and Country Dances of the 17th and 18th Centuries
anon.: Song: Bonny Kathern Loggy
4:11
François Lazarevitch, Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien, Fiona McGown
anon.: Bellamira (After Solomon Eccles) – Greensleeves (After James Oswald)
3:30
François Lazarevitch, Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien
anon.: Song: The Witty Western Lasse, to the Tune Called The Beggar Boy
5:28
François Lazarevitch, Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien, Enea Sorini, Fiona McGown
anon.: Emperor of the Moon / Ormond House
3:25
François Lazarevitch, Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien
Purcell: Song: How Vile Are the Sordid Intrigues
2:58
François Lazarevitch, Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien, Fiona McGown
anon.: Sefauchi's Farewell (After Henry Purcell)
5:09
François Lazarevitch, Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien
anon.: Song: An Italian Ayre (Fuggi, Fuggi, Fuggi) [After Henry Lawes]
4:22
François Lazarevitch, Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien, Enea Sorini
anon.: Nobody's Jig – Black and Grey – Where Will Our Goodman Lie – Maiden Lane
4:19
François Lazarevitch, Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien
anon.: Song: Drive the Cold Winter Away
4:40
François Lazarevitch, Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien, Enea Sorini, Fiona McGown
anon.: John Come Kiss Me Now (Variations by Thomas Baltzar, Christopher Simpson, David Mell, Solon Eccles)
6:21
François Lazarevitch, Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien
anon.: Song: When Daphne from Fair Phoebus Did Fly
4:37
François Lazarevitch, Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien, Fiona McGown
anon.: Scots Rant – Argiers (Variations After Jacob van Eyck)
4:55
François Lazarevitch, Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien
anon.: Song: Mr Lane's Maggot
2:53
François Lazarevitch, Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien, Fiona McGown
Henry Purcell, James Oswald: The Lord Monk's March – Hey to the Camp
3:18
François Lazarevitch, Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien
Purcell: Song
8:06
François Lazarevitch, Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien, Fiona McGown, Nick Scott
A Lad of the Town
3:36
Bacchus's Health, On the Tune Paul's Steeple (Variations Published by John Playford and John Walsh)
This programme reflects the full flavour and richness of English music and the instrumental and vocal repertory it inspired in Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The rhythmic impulse of this repertory sometimes making use of ostinato culminates in the grounds, jigs, contredanses and soon that were all the rage at the time and led to the publication of John Playfords collection The English Dancing Master in 1651. Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien, showing their familiarity with early sources from England, Scotland and Ireland, also emphasise the melodic aspect of these dances, which in the course of time became sungairsthe soprano Fiona McGown and the baritone Enea Sorini complete a colourful instrumentarium. Finally, the light-hearted dimension of entertainment is present everywhere in this repertory, which was popular in the sense that it was universally practiced at the time, achieving a fame that spread far beyond the British Isles.