Listen & tracks
18 works
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1 Wild Mountain Thyme (Scottish) Traditional
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2 Morena (15th century) Sephardic
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3 Fireflight Alex Cronin
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4 Next Market Day (English) Traditional
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5 The Lonesome Boatman (F. Furey) Finbar Furey
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6 Skye Boat Song (Scottish) Traditional
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7 O'Carolan's Concerto - T. O'Carolan (1670-1738) Turlough O'Carolan
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8 Row Weel (Scottish) Traditional
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9 Stella Splendens (14th century) Anonymous
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10 Sumens John Dunstable
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11 Roma Mail Alex Cronin
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12 Sentomi la formicula (Italian, 16th century) Anonymous
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13 Chacona Juan Aranés
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14 Clement's Squirrel / Packington's Pound (English, 17th century) Traditional
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15 Come Away John Dowland
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16 Puncha (15th century) Sephardic
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17 Tamlin's Fancy Alex Cronin
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18 Tamlin Alex Cronin
In its inimitable style, Pastance again brings together music from the folk traditions and the early music world. Played with flair and grace, there are well known songs to sing along with, new compositions for harp by Alex Cronin, hauntingly beautiful Sephardic songs and a couple of up-beat Renaissance dance tunes to get your toes tapping.
The title refers to the chorus from the song “The Next Market Day”. It is also an invitation to set aside the pressures and stresses of modern life and be transported by the music.
The Instruments
Harp – 36 string, Andy Rigby 2000
Lute – 7 course Renaissance lute, Paul Thomson 2000
Baroque Guitar – Strato Anagnostis 1985
Acoustic Guitar – Martin
Recorders – Peter Kobliczek, Moeck
Bass Flute – Boaz Berney 2005
Shawm – Moulder
Violin – German, late 1900s
Artists
Pastance
ensemble
Pastance came together in 1993 to perform mediaeval and Renaissance music. Based in Sydney, the ensemble has reached the early-music fraternity and a wide public, from folk festivals and formal concerts to schools, corporate feasts and open-air markets.
John Dowland
composer
John Dowland's lute songs and ayres carry a rare, deliberate melancholy: tears that fall in measured pavans, love that stings in galliards, darkness that still sings. His music remains the living heart of the English Renaissance songbook.
Juan Aranés
composer
Juan Arañés wrote Spanish baroque tonos humanos and villancicos, issued in Rome in 1624 with guitar accompaniment. His four-voice chaconne A la vida bona is the piece still most often heard.
Alex Cronin
composer
Multi-instrumentalist Alex Cronin trained as a lutenist in Australia and Holland. As a lutenist and guitarist he has performed with the Australian Chamber Orchestra, the Brandenburg Orchestra, Opera Australia and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, among others.
John Dunstable
composer
John Dunstable's surviving music is sacred and vocal: isorhythmic motets, mass movements and Marian antiphons built on full triadic harmony, with a liking for thirds and sixths that marked the English manner of the early fifteenth century.
Finbar Furey
composer
Turlough O'Carolan
composer
Turlough O'Carolan (1670–1738) was a blind Irish harper, composer and singer whose lasting fame rests on his gift for melody. Though not a classical composer in the later sense, he is often called Ireland’s national composer.
Performers
- Pastance · ensemble
- Megan Cronin · voice, recorders, shawm, percussion
- Myfanwy Dibben · voice, recorders
- Chris Wheeler · voice, baroque guitar, acoustic guitar
- James Gastineau-Hills · fiddle
- Matthew Ridley · bass flute
- Alex Cronin · harp, lute
Technical credits
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Recording Engineer
Greg Simmons
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Mastering Engineer
Meredith Brooks
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Venue
City Recital Hall, Sydney
NSW Conservatorium of Music
Details
- List price
- $25.00 AUD
- Categories
- Classical, Early music
- Genres
- Early Music, Folk
- Catalogue
- MCD 333
- EAN
- 9314574033328
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