Perhaps the English language's most famous diarist, Samuel Pepys was a prosperous civil servant and bon vivant in Restoration London. The diaries he kept from 1660-1668 provide a fascinating glimpse of life under the reign of the "merry monarch" Charles II. An enthusiastic amateur musician who sang and played the lute, viol, and flageolet, Pepys chronicled his experience making music with the best and worst musicians in town! STS brings this bustling, bewigged, and bawdy London to life with readings from the diaries and musical works by Hume, Blagrave, Young, and Locke, all of whom were friends of Pepys.
With Michael Barrett, tenor & recorder, and Kyle Parrish, narrator
Live concert recording 2008
Perhaps the English language's most famous diarist, Samuel Pepys was a prosperous civil servant and bon vivant in Restoration London. The diaries he kept from 1660-1668 provide a fascinating glimpse of life under the reign of the "merry monarch" Charles II. An enthusiastic amateur musician who sang and played the lute, viol, and flageolet, Pepys chronicled his experience making music with the best and worst musicians in town! STS brings this bustling, bewigged, and bawdy London to life with readings from the diaries and musical works by Hume, Blagrave, Young, and Locke, all of whom were friends of Pepys.
With Michael Barrett, tenor & recorder, and Kyle Parrish, narrator
Live concert recording 2008
