Well-known early music singers Deborah Roberts (soprano) & John Potter (tenor) sing the original or earliest known versions of the songs associated with Shakespeare’s plays. The Broadside Band accompany them on instruments of the period and play some of the dances of the plays. Fascinating listening as well as an ideal historical source for stage productions.
1 Songs & Dances from Shakespeare: Full Fathom Five Thy Father Lies – the Tempest
2 Songs & Dances from Shakespeare: Where the Bee Sucks, There Suck – the Tempest
3 Songs & Dances from Shakespeare: O Mistress Mine Where Are You Roaming – Twelfth Night
4 Songs & Dances from Shakespeare: The Poor Soul Sat Sighing (The Willow Song) – Othello
5 Songs & Dances from Shakespeare: It Was a Lover, and His Lass – As You Like It
6 Songs & Dances from Shakespeare: Sellengers Round – A Midsummer Night’s Dream
7 Songs & Dances from Shakespeare: Scottish Jice ‘Scotch Jig’ – Much Ado About Nothing
8 Songs & Dances from Shakespeare: Hoboken Brawl ‘Brawl’ – Love’s Labour Lost
9 Songs & Dances from Shakespeare: Staines Morris 2 – Henry IV, All’s Well That Ends Well
10 Songs & Dances from Shakespeare: How Should I Your True Love Know – Hamlet
11 Songs & Dances from Shakespeare: Tomorrow Is St. Valentine’s Day – Hamlet
12 Songs & Dances from Shakespeare: And Will He Not Come Again – Hamlet
13 Songs & Dances from Shakespeare: In Youth When I Did Love Hamlet – Hamlet
14 Songs & Dances from Shakespeare: The Woosell Cock, So Black of Hue – a Midsummer Night’s Dream
15 Songs & Dances from Shakespeare: O Sweet Oliver – As You Like It
16 Songs & Dances from Shakespeare: When Daffodils Begin to Peer – the Winter’s Tale
17 Songs & Dances from Shakespeare: Jog on, Jog on, the Footpath Way – the Winter’s Tale
18 Songs & Dances from Shakespeare: When That I Was and a Little Tine – Twelfth Night
19 Songs & Dances from Shakespeare: Kemp’s Jig – Twelfth Night
20 Songs & Dances from Shakespeare: Passamezzo Pavan – Twelfth Night
21 Songs & Dances from Shakespeare: Bergamasca – a Midsummer Night’s Dream
22 Songs & Dances from Shakespeare: QM [Queen Mary’s] Dumpe – the Taming of the Shrew, the Two Gentlemen of Verona, Romeo and Juliet, the Rape of Lucrece
23 Songs & Dances from Shakespeare: As You Came from That Holy Land – Hamlet
24 Songs & Dances from Shakespeare: I Loathe That I Did Love – Hamlet
25 Songs & Dances from Shakespeare: Bonny Sweet Robin – Hamlet
26 Songs & Dances from Shakespeare: Come Live with Me – the Merry Wives of Windsor
27 Songs & Dances from Shakespeare: There Dwelt a Man in Babylon – Twelfth Night
28 Songs & Dances from Shakespeare: Farewell Dear Love – Twelfth Night
29 Songs & Dances from Shakespeare: Fortune My Foe – the Merry Wives of Windsor
30 Songs & Dances from Shakespeare: The Earl of Essex Measure – Love’s Labour Lost, Romeo and Juliet, Richard II, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, Henry VIII
31 Songs & Dances from Shakespeare: La Volta – Troilus and Cressida
32 Songs & Dances from Shakespeare: The Sinkapace Galliard – Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing, Henry V
33 Songs & Dances from Shakespeare: Coranto – Henry V., Much Ado About Nothing
34 Songs & Dances from Shakespeare: Take, O Take Those Lips Away – Measure for Measure
35 Songs & Dances from Shakespeare: Sigh No More Ladies – Much Ado About Nothing
36 Songs & Dances from Shakespeare: Hark, Hark, the Lark – Cymbeline
37 Songs & Dances from Shakespeare: Lawn As White As Driven Snow – the Winter’s Tale
38 Songs & Dances from Shakespeare: Get Ye Hence – the Winter’s Tale
39 Songs & Dances from Shakespeare: When That I Was and a Little Tiny Boy – Twelfth Night