Raise the drawbridge! Music for dancing in the keep, for meditation in the chapel and for feasting in the great hall. A collection of medieval and renaissance music which presents a musical tour of a great castle. Trumpets, drums, flutes, harps, recorders and lutes provide a rich and colourful program created for pure pleasure and enjoyment.

Raise the drawbridge!
1 Branle des Sabots Arbeau (1589)
The Broadside Band directed by Jeremy Barlow
2 Pastime with good companye Henry VIII (1491-1547)
Christ Church Cathedral Choir conducted by Stephen Darlington
3 Agincourt Carol
The Henrician Consort
Courtyard Dances
4 Branles d'ecosse Arbeau
5 Pinagay Arbeau
6 Branle des Lavandieres Arbeau
The Broadside Band directed by Jeremy Barlow
Music for the Bedchamber
Guitar Suite Francois Campion (c.1685-1747)
7 Allemande
8 Gigue
9 Gavotte
10 Sarabande
11 Menuet
12 Trompette
Matthew Spring
Music for the Chapel
13 Gloria in excelsis deo
The Monks & Novices of St Frideswide
14 Sanctus Henry V (c.1387 - 1422)
Magdala directed by David Skinner
The Secret Garden
15 The honie-suckle Anthony Holborne (fl. 1584-1602)
16 Rest awhile John Dowland (1563-1626)
17 O noble England - Mounsier's Almaine William Byrd (c.1539-1623)
The Elizabethan Consort
The Great Hall
18 Saltarello
The Henrician Consort
19 Nowel's Galliard Arbeau
The Broadside Band directed by Jeremy Barlow
20 La Manfredina
21 Saltarello II
22 Ductia II
23 Estampie Royale
The Henrician Consort
24 Branle de la Guerre Arbeau
25 Branle des Chevaulx Arbea
The Broadside Band directed by Jeremy Barlow
26 Ductia I
The Henrician Consort
The Henrician Consort: Sara Stowe, Matthew Spring, Sharon Lindo, Jon Banks
All works anonymous except where noted.

CCL CDG1111
This compilation P & C 2005 Classical Communications Ltd.
Cover image: by permission of the British Library A Boating Party workshop of Simon Bening c1520 The Golf Book Add.24098.f.22v

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