Lucie Skeaping’s CDs
The following is a selection of discs by Lucie’s two groups: The City Waites and The Burning Bush. They can be ordered from Lucie Skeaping or by contacting the record companies direct, as marked below. For further details/track information etc. contact Lucie Skeaping.
'Lusty Songs and Country Dances'
www.regisrecords.co.uk/regisrecords/Alpha/RRC1275.html
Broadside ballads, popular songs and rollicking country dances from 17th century England performed on lute, cittern, bagpipes, recorder, fiddles, curtal, hurdygurdy, and four lusty voices. .
‘A captivating collection.... .the performers enter into the sprit of the songs with rumbustious relish’
TELEGRAPH
'Penny Merriments'
www.naxos.com/catalogue/item.asp?item_code=8.557672#
Rude, lewd, sentimental and political, these penny ballads were the pop music and tabloid press of 17th century England and mixed entertainment and titilation with important events of the day. Solo songs set to favourite popular tunes with a variety of period instruments.
‘Delicious entertainment - bawdy, brave, nautical, noxtious…the zest is palpable and infectious’
MUSICWEB
‘Music of the Old Jewish World’
www.arcmusic.co.uk
Vibrant and moving selection of songs, melodies and dance music from the Jewish tradition. Yiddish and Sephardi songs, Klezmer and Hassidic melodies. Traditional instruments include clarinet, fiddle, accordion, oud, darabukka and cymbalom.
‘An absolute joy - grace, passion and virtuosity’
GLASGOW HERALD
‘Raisins and Almonds’
www.saydisc.com
Music of the Jewish tradition: Yiddish and Sephardi songs, Klezmer dances and hassidic melodies, with traditional instruments. Much awaited re-release.
‘The stunning vocals of Lucie Skeaping, sometimes soaring, elsewhere sweeping, make this an album of exceptional quality’
ROCK AND REEL
‘Bawdy Ballads of Old England’
(formerly ‘The Musitians of Grope Lane’)
www.regisrecords.co.uk/regisrecords/Alpha/RRC1175.html
Street songs, and ballads from the Pepys collection and others, plus variety of Playford dances, as heard in the taverns, theatres, streets and countryside of 17th century England. Rude, lewd, sentimental and lively - on period instruments.
‘Keep a bucket of cold water handy and enjoy’
BBC Radio 3
'Best of Yiddish, Klezmer and Sephardic Music'
www.arcmusic.co.uk
Traditional Jewish world music, songs, ballads and dances, Yiddish, Ladino etc, traditional instruments.
‘A terrific listening experience - it catches the life-blood of living’
AMBIENCE, AUSTRALIA
'The English Tradition'
www.arcmusic.co.uk
400 years of English popular song from Greensleeves to early Victorian. Songs with period instruments incl lute, recorder, curtal, harpsichord, fiddle, pipes, hurdygurdy etc.
‘The City Waites summon up the exuberance and sheer anarchy of an early street band’
TIME OUT
'Klezmer and Hassidic Music’
www.arcmusic.co.uk
Moving and foot-tapping instrumental music from Eastern Europe - Klezmer and Hassidic dances, traditional instruments.
‘The original World Music where Europe, Africa and the Orient freely mingle’
THE INDEPENDENT
'Folksongs of Israel’
www.arcmusic.co.uk
Beautiful, spirited and varied selection of Israeli songs from male and female solo singers with traditional band. Some familiar, and some early songs of the pioneers in Palestine.
‘A burning revelation’
JEWISH GAZETTE
'Pills To Purge Melancholy'
www.saydisc.com
Solo songs (tenor and soprano) from the theatre, street and home from the collection published by Thomas Durfey in early 18th century. Comic, sentimental, pretty and bawdy. Small period instrument band.
‘Smashing performances, an absolute winner’
CLASSICAL MUSIC
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