Cries of London

Vocal ensemble e21 join with Consortium, Melbourne's viol consort, to present a program from the musical life of Renaissance England. Gibbons's Cries of London is a stylised soundscape of a teeming 17th century city. It interweaves cries and songs of London's peddlers and beggars, street vendors, a ratcatcher, a chimney sweep, a patient begging on behalf of the mad inmates of Bedlam and the morning and evening nightwatchman's calls. Alongside Cries of London are English works for choir and viol consorts by Gibbons, Tomkins and Dering.

Director: Stephen Grant