Nutmeg & Ginger

Philip Pickett (Artist), Musicians of the Globe (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 15, 1999)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Philips
• ASIN: B00000J9GD
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #213,077 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Setting A 5: Daphne

2. Nutmeg And Ginger

3. Watkins Ale

4. Setting 5: Nancie

5. Nancie: The London Prentice

6. Greensleeves

7. Loath To Depart

8. Packingtons Pound: The Cutpurse

9. Setting A 5: Daphne

10. Setting For 5 Strings: Dulcina (Turckische Intrada)

11. The Miller

12. Fortune My Foe

13. Loath To Depart: Lie Still, My Dear

14. Lord Willoughby's Welcome Home

15. How Can The Tree

16. Roland - Lord Willoughby: Pavan

17. Roland - Lord Willoughby: Galliard

18. Go, Silly Note

19. Roland - Lord Willoughby: Come Hither

20. Dulcina

See all 23 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Just short of excellent, June 23, 1999

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F. Behrens "Frank Behrens" (Keene, NH USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Nutmeg & Ginger (Audio CD)

After four extremely worthy releases on Philips label of the newly formed Musicians of the Globe under Philip Pickett, a fifth has just been issued that is of equal value (one can never get too much of well-done Elizabethan and Jacobean music, now that the Deller Consort is no more) but not quite of equally satisfaction. I have played and enjoyed very much their <Shakespeare's Musick,> <The Enchanted Island,> <A Shakespeare Ode,> and <The Masque of Oberon.> Their <Purcell's Shakespeare> has eluded me but sooner or later it will be added to my collection. Therefore I had obtained the latest entry, <Nutmeg and Ginger: Spicy Ballads from Shakespeare's London> (456 507-2), with great anticipation. The generous 23 tracks are divided into instrumental, vocal with accompaniment and vocal without. The first two formats are what I expected: elegantly and (presumably) authentically peformed. Now so is the third, but the selections are quite long and really need some music behind them. The tunes are catchy but not quite enough to keep one's interest for the full 3 to 4 minutes some of them take. Yes, the words are witty, the situations are bawdy though never never explicit (in the best British tradition); but again interest is not maintained throughout the long and musically repetitive stanzas. Far more amusing were the old Elektra LPs with Ed McCurdy and guitar leering lewdly through a purely vocal program of dirty ditties. The singers (Joanne Lunn, Sally Bruce-Payne, Paul Agnew, and Roderick Williams) know what they are about; and indeed their singing is perhaps a little too refined given the material. Still ye lovers of the old-time song, do not pass this one up.