
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
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When the King enjoys his own again (Anon)
Ivy is good (anon 15th century)
Gather your rosebuds (William Lawes)
Dives and Lazarus (trad)
Though I am young (Nicholas Lanier)
Country dance (John Jenkins)
Sweet do not thus destroy me (Nicholas Lanier)
Come lay by your cares (Robert Smith)
Deprecamur te domine (anon Anglo Saxon)
Ah heav'n what is't I hear (John Blow)
Now the lusty spring is seen (John Wilson: attributed to Robert Johnson)
Man's life is but vain (the angler's catch) (Henry Lawes)
Coprario or Gray's Inn the first (John Coprario)
Misera Pastorella (Nicholas Lanier)
Orpheus with his lute (Matthew Locke)
Some drink boy some drink (William Lawes)
I sing of a maiden that matchless is (Gustav Holst)
Amorosa Pargoletta (Nicholas Lanier)
Dear do not your fair beauty wrong (Robert Johnson)
Ah Robin (William Cornish c1520)
My soul has nought but fire and ice (Gustav Holst)
She weepeth full sore (William Lawes)
Cast your caps and cares away (John Wilson)
Full fathom five thy father lies (Robert Johnson:John Wilson)
From the fair Lavinian shore (John Wilson)
Turn turn thy beauteous face away (John Wilson)
Lawn as white as driven snow (attributed to John Wilson)
Care-charming sleep (Robert Johnson)
I know that my Redeemer lives (Matthew Locke)
Music the master of thy art is dead (William Lawes)
Dearest do not now delay me (Anon:Henry Lawes)
Down by the salley gardens (trad)
Ivy is good (anon, 15th century)
God Lyeus ever young (John Wilson:attribured to Robert Johnson)
Come hither you that love (Robert Johnson:John Wilson)
Cavalilly man (anon, 17th century)
O think not Phoebe 'cause a cloud (William Lawes)
As I walked through the meadow (trad)
My leman is so true (Gustav Holst)
Silent worship (GF Handel A Somervell)
Man may longe lives ween (anon 13th century)
How should I your true love know Walsingham (anon 16th century)
Edi be thu (anon 13th century)
Fowles in the frith bird on a briar (anon 13th century)
Edi be thu (anon, 13th century)
Stand well mother under rood (anon 13th to 14th century)
Fowles in the frith, bird on a briar (anon, 13th century)
Cavalilly man (anon 17th century)
Jesu sweet now will I sing (Gustav Holst)
Now would I fain summer this make (anon 15th century)
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