WGBH Music: New England Brass band plays "Pastime with Good Company"

In a special program recorded in the Fraser Performance Studio at WGBH, New England Brass Band director Stephen Bulla introduces the concept of the traditional British Brass Band, and then the group launches into Bulla's own arrangement of the English Renaissance tune "Pastime With Good Company," a piece attributed to Henry VIII. LInks: www. classicalnewengland.org; recording.wgbh.org; newenglandbrassband.org

[@alanespinney]

Thank you SO much. I'm currently reading Wolf Hall and it's nice to now know the song referred to in the book.

[@trfesok]

Three rock groups, Blackmore's Night, Gryphon and Jethro Tull, did..well.. less traditional arrangements of this, I put the first two and this fine performance in my "Tull covers.." playlist. Love this..thanks for uploading!

[@WGBHMusic]

Glad you found this! It's nice when metadata does its job.

[@trevordowning3270]

brilliant rendition of this piece.

[@adamfox1669]

Thank you

[@bobnewnham7400]

Twerp. Using a Snare Drum!!!!!

[@alanespinney]

Isn't it?

[@DNKG669]

they call themselves a brass band but they use french horns

[@manueldacosta3094]

Jazz drums?????? On that kind of music wtf????

[@RNG-hater-123-jd1bb]

It's more of a rock beat and I think it has a nice groove with the music Henry VIII was getting funky back in the day

[@BHravn]

This is Flemish Renaissance, not English. England was underdeveloped then (in the Middle-Ages) compared to Flandria.

[@starfox1]

this was composed by king henry viii of england thus it is english

[@artsed08]

You're being anglophobic and racist - pipe down.

[@jimbeattie8967]

Talking absolute rubbish.

[@CurtisD01]

ah more euros talking down on England.... just butt hurt that we're better than you

[@omegachadrequiem3831]

Written by Henry 8. And as far as I know he was infamous King