Utwory na płycie:

• Jenny Loves, and She Confesses Too
• The Washerwoman Set
• Oft She Visits This Lone Mountain
• Over Hill, Over Dale
• Adagio and Glittering Queen
• The Three Ravens
• The Fairy Shuffle
• You Spotted Snakes; Hush No More
• Music For a While
• The Newcastle Set
• The Jolly Pilgrim
• Niel Gow's Lament for the Red, Red Rose
• The Willow Song
• Now The Night is Chased Away
• Can She Excuse Puck's Wrong

Jenny Loves, and She Confessed Too (Anon./Purcell)
The Washer Woman Set (Purcell, Marshall, Gow, Playford, Anon/Trad)
Adagio from Come Ye Sons of Art & So When The Glittering Queen of Night (Purcell)
The Three Ravens (Traditional)
The Fairy Shuffle – Prelude to Act V The Fairy Queen (Purcell, Russ, Trad, from Norway)
You Spotted Snakes (Eike/Purcell)
Music For A While (Purcell)
The Newcastle Set. From The English Dancing Master (Playford)
Hey Jolly Broom Man From The English Dancing Master (Playford)
A Red, Red Rose (Gow)
The Willow Song (Anon)
Now The Night Is Chased Away (Purcell)
Can She Excuse Puck’s Wrongs (Can She Excuse My Wrongs - Dowland)
If We Shadows Have Offended (Spoken word)

“There are some things you just can’t fake. The chemistry of a group is one of those - the sparks of musical energy that fly when certain artists collide. Bjarte Eike’s Barokksolistene is an alchemical miracle of an ensemble... pure musical gold” - Gramophone

Since the release of the chart topping ‘Alehouse Sessions’ in 2017, and a worldwide tour, Bjarte and the boys and girls have been busy on this new album which moves the alehouse project on from dour Puritanism of Cromwell’s Commonwealth, to the hedonistic Restoration of Charles II, and the Glorious Revolution that saw William III and Mary II replace the unpopular James II.

The alehouse musical culture developed into playhouses, and music halls, selling tickets and subscriptions. Operas, masques, dance, jesting (the first stand-up comedians maybe?), all this prepared the way for the first public concert hall to be established. Nights in these places though would still be bawdy - stage fights, cross dressing, elements of pantomime, songs sung to popular tunes of the day, satire - always a good draw, and a good number of rustic clowns, bawdy wenches and fools thrown in for good measure.

Think of these back rooms as a very English mix of Shakespeare, commedia dell arte, juggling with music by Purcell, folk tunes, and sea shanties. After the misery of the Commonwealth and Cromwell’s dictatorship, the public were in the mood to party. Playhouse is your invitation.

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Recordings: ABC studio Etne, Norway, November 2020; The Village Recording, Copenhagen, Denmark, November 2021; Studio Epidemin, Gothenburg, Sweden, March 2022.