- Format: CD
- Label: Fledgling
- Genre: Folk
A pioneering sequence of music and readings connected with English country dance music throughout the centuries. Ashley Hutchings and John Kirkpatrick lead an enormous cast of actors and musicians through one of their finest albums. This edition has sleevenotes from Ashley and has been carefully remastered from the original master tapes. Album Compiled by John Kirkpatrick & Ashley Hutchings with Philip Pickett, Bert Cleaver, Simon Nicol, Roger Swallow, Rod Skeaping, Jeremy Montagu, Dave Mattacks, Gary Watson, Bernard Hepton, Francis Baines, Sue Harris, Richard Harvey, Adam Skeaping, Alan Lumsden, Michael Hn, Sarah Badel, Terry Potter, Dave Kettlewell, Alan Ward, Fanny Warnock, Peter Knight, Ray Warleigh, Michael Gough, Alec McCowen, Ian Ogilvy, Elizabeth Baines, Loni Platt, Peter Vel.
Track listing: 1.The Beginning of the World2. Gary Watson as Geoffrey Chaucer (reading from “The Romaunt of the Rose”) 3. Stantpipes / Percussion Bridge / Trotto 4. Bernard Hepton as the Puritan William Prynne (reading from “Histriomastix”)5. Nonesuch / Cuckold's All Awry6. The Dashing White Sergeant / The Devil among the Tailors7. Sarah Badel as Beatrice (in Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing”)8. Haste to the Wedding / The Triumph / Off She Goes9. Michael Gough as William Hogarth (reading from “Analysis of Beauty”)10. Long Odds / Mr. Cosgill’s Delight11. Michael Hordern as Charles Dickens (reading from “Sketches by Boz”) 12. Bonny Breastknot / Double Lead Through13. Barley Break / Cushion Dance14. Alec McCowen as Arbeau and Ian Ogilvy as Capriol (reading from “Orchesographie”)15. The Hare’s Maggot16. Sir Roger De Coverley
