Thomas Ravenscroft - Harmony to please, varietie to delight
Lucie Skeaping explores the life and music of Thomas Ravenscroft - the 17th-century English composer who aimed to produce 'harmony to please, and varietie to delight'.
In 1609, one of the "most eccentric characters in an age of professed eccentics", one Thomas Ravenscroft edited Pammelia, the earliest English printed collection of rounds and catches. Lucie Skeaping explores the life and music of the man who wanted to produce "Harmony to please, varietie to delight".
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Thomas Ravenscroft
The marriage of the frogge and the mouse
Performers: The Consort of Musicke, Anthony Rooley (director)
- VIRGIN CLASSICS.
- VC 7912172.
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Thomas Ravenscroft
New Oysters; Come follow me merrily; New Oysters (reprise)
Performers: Circa 1500 with Redbyrd
- CRD.
- CRD 3487.
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Thomas Ravenscroft
3 Fantasias for viol
Performers: The Consort of Musicke, Anthony Rooley
- VIRGIN CLASSICS.
- VC 7912172.
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Thomas Ravenscroft
Three Blind Mice; Browning Madame
Performers: The Consort of Musicke, Anthony Rooley (director)
- VIRGIN CLASSICS.
- VC 7912172.
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Thomas Ravenscroft
Who liveth so merry; Give us once a drink
Performers: Pro Cantione Antiqua, Mark Brown, Ian Partridge (director)
- TELDEC.
- 843443.
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William Parsons
The Lamentation
Performers: His Majestie’s Clerkes, Paul Hillier (director)
- HARMONIA MUNDI.
- HMU 907128.
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John Dowland
All people that on Earth do dwell… (Psalm 100)
Performers: The Consort of Musicke, Anthony Rooley (director)
- L'OISEAU-LYRE.
- 452 5632.
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Thomas Ravenscroft
Laboravi in gemitu meo; Ne laeteris inimical mea
Performers: The Consort of Musicke, Anthony Rooley (director)
- VIRGIN CLASSICS.
- VC 7912172.
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Thomas Ravenscroft
Remember O Thou Man (Anthem from Melismata)
Performers: The Sixteen, Harry Christophers (director)
- COLLINS CLASSICS.
- 14922.
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Thomas Ravenscroft
We Be Soldiers Three
Performers: City Waites
- REGIS.
- RRC 1275.
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Thomas Ravenscroft
Cryers Song of Cheape-Side
Performers: The Consort of Musicke, Anthony Rooley (director)
- VIRGIN CLASSICS.
- VC 7912172.
Broadcasts
- Sat 22 Aug 2009 13:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3
- Sun 29 Aug 2010 13:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3
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