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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".

1 hour

Last on

Sun 29 Aug 2010 13:00
成人快手 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Thomas Ravenscroft

    The marriage of the frogge and the mouse

    Performers: The Consort of Musicke, Anthony Rooley (director)

    • VIRGIN CLASSICS.
    • VC 7912172.

  • Thomas Ravenscroft

    New Oysters; Come follow me merrily; New Oysters (reprise)

    Performers: Circa 1500 with Redbyrd

    • CRD.
    • CRD 3487.

  • Thomas Ravenscroft

    3 Fantasias for viol

    Performers: The Consort of Musicke, Anthony Rooley

    • VIRGIN CLASSICS.
    • VC 7912172.

  • Thomas Ravenscroft

    Three Blind Mice; Browning Madame

    Performers: The Consort of Musicke, Anthony Rooley (director)

    • VIRGIN CLASSICS.
    • VC 7912172.

  • Thomas Ravenscroft

    Who liveth so merry; Give us once a drink

    Performers: Pro Cantione Antiqua, Mark Brown, Ian Partridge (director)

    • TELDEC.
    • 843443.

  • William Parsons

    The Lamentation

    Performers: His Majestie鈥檚 Clerkes, Paul Hillier (director)

    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
    • HMU 907128.

  • John Dowland

    All people that on Earth do dwell鈥� (Psalm 100)

    Performers: The Consort of Musicke, Anthony Rooley (director)

    • L'OISEAU-LYRE.
    • 452 5632.

  • Thomas Ravenscroft

    Laboravi in gemitu meo; Ne laeteris inimical mea

    Performers: The Consort of Musicke, Anthony Rooley (director)

    • VIRGIN CLASSICS.
    • VC 7912172.

  • Thomas Ravenscroft

    Remember O Thou Man (Anthem from Melismata)

    Performers: The Sixteen, Harry Christophers (director)

    • COLLINS CLASSICS.
    • 14922.

  • Thomas Ravenscroft

    We Be Soldiers Three

    Performers: City Waites

    • REGIS.
    • RRC 1275.

  • Thomas Ravenscroft

    Cryers Song of Cheape-Side

    Performers: The Consort of Musicke, Anthony Rooley (director)

    • VIRGIN CLASSICS.
    • VC 7912172.

Broadcasts

  • Sat 22 Aug 2009 13:00
    成人快手 Radio 3
  • Sun 29 Aug 2010 13:00
    成人快手 Radio 3

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