Reviews
“… the music is rousing and enjoyable ... The performances themselves are good – rough and ready, but then, rough and ready is the style of the music and the nature of the instruments. The music itself is drawn from various dances, songs and carols that have come down to us from the twelfth to seventeenth centuries, as well as some melodies from Playford’s The English Dancing Master, the odd bit of a Dowland, and dances from Praetorius’s Terpsichore. These tunes and dances the group weave into different sections, as imagined that they might have been played for example at the tavern, at the manor, or at the King’s court. It’s not a disc to sit down and listen through to in attentive silence, but it makes for pleasant listening whilst writing the Christmas cards, or doing something else festive and undemanding.” Em Marshall-Luck, MusicWeb-International