Description
“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)
- [1] Diddle Diddle or The Kind Country Lovers 3.22
- [2] The Fair Maid of lslington 4.09
- [3] Green Stockings 2.21
- [4] The Jovial Lass or Dol and Roger 4.19
- [5] Mundanga Was 2.49
- [6] Lady of Pleasure 1.37
- [7] The Old Wife 2.06
- [8] The Beehive 2.33
- [9] Blue Petticoats or Green Garters 2.02
- [10] The Gelding of the Devil 6.54
- [11] The Maid’s Complaint for Want of a Dil Doul 5.27
- [12] Oyster Nan 2.20
- [13] The Frolic 2.06
- [14] The Husband who met his Match 5.27
- [15] The Jovial Broom Man 2.56
- [16] The Disappointment 3.49
- [17] The Lusty Young Smith 2.28
- [18] Greensleeves and Yellow Lace 2.31
- [19] The Jolly Brown Turd 1.37
- [20] Two Rounds: Tom Making a Manteau; When Celia was Learning 3.16
- [21] Lady Lie Near Me 1.31
- [22] Oh how you Protest 1.33
- [23] A Ditty Delightful of Mother Watkin’s Ale 3.41
- [24] Miss Nelly 2.30
