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English Ayres

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English Ayres is a circle of musicians dedicated to performing early music, traditional and English music in such a way that it is never boring. We aim for a fresh sound, and lively storytelling. Jeni Melia has studied with Mary Bainbridge and Ruth Holton, and has participated in masterclasses with Emma Kirkby, with whom she has studied privately. She sings with the Concord Singers and has performed solos in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, Faure's Requiem

Top songs

  1. When the King enjoys his own again (Anon)
  2. Ivy is good (anon 15th century)
  3. Gather your rosebuds (William Lawes)
  4. Dives and Lazarus (trad)
  5. Though I am young (Nicholas Lanier)
  6. Deprecamur te domine (anon Anglo Saxon)
  7. Country dance (John Jenkins)
  8. Sweet do not thus destroy me (Nicholas Lanier)
  9. Come lay by your cares (Robert Smith)
  10. Ah heav'n what is't I hear (John Blow)
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  1. Now the lusty spring is seen (John Wilson: attributed to Robert Johnson)
  2. Man's life is but vain (the angler's catch) (Henry Lawes)
  3. Misera Pastorella (Nicholas Lanier)
  4. Coprario or Gray's Inn the first (John Coprario)
  5. Orpheus with his lute (Matthew Locke)
  6. Some drink boy some drink (William Lawes)
  7. I sing of a maiden that matchless is (Gustav Holst)
  8. Dear do not your fair beauty wrong (Robert Johnson)
  9. Amorosa Pargoletta (Nicholas Lanier)
  10. Ah Robin (William Cornish c1520)
  11. She weepeth full sore (William Lawes)
  12. My soul has nought but fire and ice (Gustav Holst)
  13. Cast your caps and cares away (John Wilson)
  14. Full fathom five thy father lies (Robert Johnson:John Wilson)
  15. From the fair Lavinian shore (John Wilson)
  16. Lawn as white as driven snow (attributed to John Wilson)
  17. Turn turn thy beauteous face away (John Wilson)
  18. Care-charming sleep (Robert Johnson)
  19. I know that my Redeemer lives (Matthew Locke)
  20. Music the master of thy art is dead (William Lawes)
  21. Dearest do not now delay me (Anon:Henry Lawes)
  22. Down by the salley gardens (trad)
  23. Ivy is good (anon, 15th century)
  24. God Lyeus ever young (John Wilson:attribured to Robert Johnson)
  25. Come hither you that love (Robert Johnson:John Wilson)
  26. Cavalilly man (anon, 17th century)
  27. O think not Phoebe 'cause a cloud (William Lawes)
  28. As I walked through the meadow (trad)
  29. My leman is so true (Gustav Holst)
  30. Silent worship (GF Handel A Somervell)
  31. Man may longe lives ween (anon 13th century)
  32. How should I your true love know Walsingham (anon 16th century)
  33. Edi be thu (anon 13th century)
  34. Fowles in the frith bird on a briar (anon 13th century)
  35. Edi be thu (anon, 13th century)
  36. Stand well mother under rood (anon 13th to 14th century)
  37. Fowles in the frith, bird on a briar (anon, 13th century)
  38. Cavalilly man (anon 17th century)
  39. Jesu sweet now will I sing (Gustav Holst)
  40. Now would I fain summer this make (anon 15th century)
  41. Man may longe lives ween (anon, 13th century)
  42. Now would I fain summer this make (anon, 15th century)
  43. Lo country sports (Thomas Weelkes, 1597)
  44. Silent worship (GF Handel, A Somervell)
  45. Jesu sweet, now will I sing (Gustav Holst)
  46. Stand well mother, under rood (anon, 13th to 14th century)
  47. How should I your true love know, Walsingham (anon, 16th century)
  48. Madame d?amours (anon, c1520)
  49. Lo country sports (Thomas Weelkes 1597)
  50. Deprecamur te domine (anon, Anglo Saxon)
  51. Now the lusty spring is seen (John Wilson/ attributed to. Robert Johnson)
  52. Wounded I am, Yet of us twain (William Byrd, 1589)
  53. Sweet, do not thus destroy me (Nicholas Lanier)
  54. Madame damours (anon c1520)
  55. Wounded I am Yet of us twain (William Byrd 1589)
  56. Ah heav'n, what is't I hear? (John Blow)
  57. Dear, do not your fair beauty wrong (Robert Johnson)
  58. God Lyeus, ever young (John Wilson/attribured to Robert Johnson)
  59. Some drink, boy, some drink (William Lawes)
  60. Lawn as white as driven snow (attributed to. John Wilson)
  61. Who Is It That This Dark Night
  62. Dearest do not now delay me (Anon/Henry Lawes)
  63. Turn, turn thy beauteous face away (John Wilson)
  64. Coprario, or Gray's Inn, the first (John Coprario)
  65. Come hither you that love (Robert Johnson/John Wilson)
  66. Full fathom five thy father lies (Robert Johnson/John Wilson)
  67. O, think not Phoebe 'cause a cloud (William Lawes)
  68. Music, the master of thy art is dead (William Lawes)
  69. My Lord Chamberlain's Galliard
  70. Fair Cruel Nymph
  71. Awake Sweet Love
  72. Edi beo thu hevene quene
  73. What Shall I Wish
  74. Oft Thou Hast With Greedy Ear
  75. O Sweet Flower
  76. Tell Me O Love
  77. Orpheus I Am Charon O Charon
  78. His Golden Locks
  79. A Shepherd In a Shade
  80. Dowland's Bells
  81. Coy Daphne Fled
  82. Oft Thou Hast With Greedy Ear (John Coprario)
  83. Tell Me True Love
  84. Tell Me, True Love
  85. Tell Me, O Love
  86. Orpheus I Am, Charon, O Charon
  87. Time's Eldest Son, Then Sit Thee Down, When Others Sing Venite
  88. Tell Me Dearest, What Is Love (Robert Johnson)
  89. Come Again, Sweet Love Doth Now Invite (John Dowland)
  90. Come Again Sweet Love Doth Now Invite

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