The City Waites & Lucie Skeaping - Bawdy Ballads of Old England - 17th Century Songs & Dances AEC Video These are just some of

These are just some of the diverse and varied characters from the famous Fables that Jacques Offenbach decided to set to music in 1842

Johannes Brahms and César Franck

mixed the album

It makes for fascinating and enlightening listening as they present both familiar and original jazz repertoire in a variety of unusual musical settings

The City Waites & Lucie Skeaping - Bawdy Ballads of Old England - 17th Century Songs & Dances AEC Video These are just some of"it is no good having lewd words one cannot hear so full marks for the City Waites and their swinging dialect style items are sometimes accompanied, sometimes not, and this nicely provides contrast, but they are made into lively entertainments" (Penguin Guide 3*) "a taste of the broadside ballad culture which pervaded the Restoration The Maid's Complaint is a remarkably spontaneous scene, led by soprano Lucie Skeaping complete with a bunch of drunks