English Music of the 17th Century

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Album Summary

Performers

• Sterling Jones (Viol)
• Willard Cobb (Tenor)
• Thomas Binkley (Lute)
• Viktor Lukas (Organ)
• Karl Klein (Countertenor)
• Karl Klein (Organetto)
• Karl Klein (Organ)
• Karl Klein (Tenor)
• Karl Klein (Lute)
• Gustav Leonhardt (Virginal)
• Gustav Leonhardt (Viol)
• Gustav Leonhardt (Organ)
• Gustav Leonhardt (Harpsichord)
• Nigel Vocal] (Tenor)
• Franz Eder (Trombone)
• Andrea Ramm (Organetto)
• Grayston Burgess (Countertenor)
• Don Smithers (Cornet)
• Karl Klein (Viol)

Ensembles

• Concentus Musicus Wien
• Leonhardt Consort
• Studio der fruhen Musik

Composers

• John Dowland (1563 - 1626)
• William Tisdale
• Giovanni Coprario (circa 1575 - 1626)
• John Ward (Ren. Composer) (1571 - 1638)
• Thomas Campion (1567 - 1620)
• Robert Johnson (Renaissance Composer 2) (circa 1583 - 1633)
• Giles Farnaby (circa 1563 - 1640)
• Thomas Tomkins (1572 - 1656)
• John Bull (circa 1562 - 1628)
• Tobias Hume (1569 - 1645)
• John Wilson (17th cent. Composer) (1595 - 1674)
• Matthew Locke (circa 1621 - 1677)
• William Lawes (1602 - 1645)
• William Byrd (Composer) (1543 - 1623)
• Thomas Morley (circa 1557 - 1602)
• Anonymous
• Thomas Weelkes (1575 - 1623)
• John Hingeston (circa 1606 - 1688)
• Thomas Lupo (Renaissance Composer) (15th Century - 1628)
• Orlando Gibbons (17th cent. Composer) (1583 - 1625)

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Works Details

Lawes, William : Suite no 2 à 5 in F major :: Fantasia

• Performers: Gustav Leonhardt (Virginal); Gustav Leonhardt (Viol); Gustav Leonhardt (Organ)
• Ensemble: Leonhardt Consort
• Running Time: 4 min. 27 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque

Lawes, William : Suite no 2 à 5 in F major :: Aire

• Performers: Gustav Leonhardt (Viol); Gustav Leonhardt (Organ); Gustav Leonhardt (Virginal)
• Ensemble: Leonhardt Consort
• Running Time: 1 min. 57 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque

Gibbons, Orlando : Pavan, for 6 viols, MB41

• Performers: Gustav Leonhardt (Harpsichord); Gustav Leonhardt (Virginal); Gustav Leonhardt (Organ)
• Running Time: 2 min. 55 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance

Farnaby, Giles : Fantasia no 5 for keyboard, MB 5

• Performers: Gustav Leonhardt (Harpsichord); Gustav Leonhardt (Organ); Gustav Leonhardt (Virginal)
• Running Time: 5 min. 1 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance

Lawes, William : Sonata no 7 in D minor

• Performers: Gustav Leonhardt (Virginal); Gustav Leonhardt (Viol); Gustav Leonhardt (Organ)
• Ensemble: Leonhardt Consort
• Running Time: 4 min. 14 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque

Byrd, William : Pavan and Galliard a 6 in C major

• Performers: Gustav Leonhardt (Virginal); Gustav Leonhardt (Viol); Gustav Leonhardt (Organ)
• Ensemble: Leonhardt Consort
• Notes: Composition written: Circa 1590.
• Running Time: 4 min. 9 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance
• Written: circa 1590

Dowland, John : Lachrimae, pavan for lute (music by Dowland poss. arr. by W.Wigthorpe)

• Performers: Gustav Leonhardt (Harpsichord); Gustav Leonhardt (Organ); Gustav Leonhardt (Virginal)
• Running Time: 6 min. 21 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance

Dowland, John : Can she excuse, P 42

• Performers: Gustav Leonhardt (Virginal); Gustav Leonhardt (Harpsichord); Gustav Leonhardt (Organ)
• Running Time: 2 min. 37 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance
• Form: Choral
• Written: 1597

Tomkins, Thomas : Pavane ("For These Distracted Times") for keyboard (February 1649)

• Performers: Gustav Leonhardt (Harpsichord); Gustav Leonhardt (Virginal); Gustav Leonhardt (Organ)
• Running Time: 3 min. 35 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance

Lawes, William : Suite no 3 in B flat major :: In nomine

• Performers: Gustav Leonhardt (Organ); Gustav Leonhardt (Viol); Gustav Leonhardt (Virginal)
• Ensemble: Leonhardt Consort
• Running Time: 5 min. 23 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque

Morley, Thomas : Nancy, variations for keyboard

• Performers: Gustav Leonhardt (Virginal); Gustav Leonhardt (Organ); Gustav Leonhardt (Harpsichord)
• Ensemble: Leonhardt Consort
• Running Time: 4 min. 5 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance

Tisdale, William : Pavana chromatica (Mrs. Katherine Tregian's pavan)

• Performers: Gustav Leonhardt (Harpsichord); Gustav Leonhardt (Virginal); Gustav Leonhardt (Organ)
• Running Time: 5 min. 28 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance

Byrd, William : Pavan & Gaillard, for keyboard in D minor no 1, MB 52

• Performers: Gustav Leonhardt (Organ); Gustav Leonhardt (Harpsichord); Gustav Leonhardt (Virginal)
• Running Time: 6 min. 38 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance

Bull, John : Hexachord Fantasia

• Performers: Gustav Leonhardt (Harpsichord); Gustav Leonhardt (Organ); Gustav Leonhardt (Virginal)
• Running Time: 6 min. 16 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance

Byrd, William : Fantasia, for keyboard in C major, no 3, MB 27

• Performers: Gustav Leonhardt (Organ); Gustav Leonhardt (Viol); Gustav Leonhardt (Virginal)
• Ensemble: Leonhardt Consort
• Running Time: 3 min. 25 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance

Morley, Thomas : Fantasia for keyboard in D minor

• Performers: Gustav Leonhardt (Virginal); Gustav Leonhardt (Harpsichord); Gustav Leonhardt (Organ)
• Running Time: 5 min. 36 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance

Byrd, William : Fantasia a 6, for instrumental consort no 2 in G minor

• Performers: Gustav Leonhardt (Viol); Gustav Leonhardt (Virginal); Gustav Leonhardt (Organ)
• Ensemble: Leonhardt Consort
• Running Time: 5 min. 26 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance

Anonymous : A Toye

• Performers: Gustav Leonhardt (Virginal); Gustav Leonhardt (Harpsichord); Gustav Leonhardt (Organ)
• Running Time: 1 min. 11 sec.

Bull, John : The Duchesse of Brunswick's Toye

• Performers: Gustav Leonhardt (Virginal); Gustav Leonhardt (Harpsichord); Gustav Leonhardt (Organ)
• Period Time: Renaissance

Farnaby, Giles : The Old Spagnoletta (Fitzwilliam Virginal Book), for keyboard

• Performers: Gustav Leonhardt (Virginal); Gustav Leonhardt (Harpsichord); Gustav Leonhardt (Organ)
• Running Time: 2 min. 22 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance

Tomkins, Thomas : Pavan of Three Parts

• Performers: Gustav Leonhardt (Virginal); Gustav Leonhardt (Organ); Gustav Leonhardt (Harpsichord)
• Running Time: 2 min. 31 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance

Tomkins, Thomas : Galliard of Three Parts

• Performers: Gustav Leonhardt (Harpsichord); Gustav Leonhardt (Virginal); Gustav Leonhardt (Organ)
• Running Time: 1 min. 3 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance

Byrd, William : Clarifica Me Pater (III), for keyboard, MB 49

• Performers: Gustav Leonhardt (Harpsichord); Gustav Leonhardt (Virginal); Gustav Leonhardt (Organ)
• Running Time: 2 min. 41 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance

Coprario, Giovanni : My Joy Is Dead

• Performers: Nigel Vocal] (Tenor); Franz Eder (Trombone); Andrea Ramm (Organetto); Grayston Burgess (Countertenor); Don Smithers (Cornet); Karl Klein (Viol); Sterling Jones (Viol); Willard Cobb (Tenor); Thomas Binkley (Lute); Viktor Lukas (Organ)
• Ensemble: Studio der frühen Musik
• Running Time: 4 min. 20 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance

Hume, Tobias : Tobacco for bass & ensemble

• Performers: Viktor Lukas (Organ); Don Smithers (Cornet); Willard Cobb (Tenor); Sterling Jones (Viol); Karl Klein (Countertenor); Thomas Binkley (Lute); Andrea Ramm (Organetto); Nigel Vocal] (Tenor); Grayston Burgess (Countertenor); Franz Eder (Trombone)
• Ensemble: Studio der frühen Musik
• Running Time: 1 min. 24 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque
• Written: 1605

Gibbons, Orlando : Fantasias (10) for Keyboard

• Ensemble: Concentus Musicus Wien
• Running Time: 2 min. 17 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance

Weelkes, Thomas : Cease sorrowes now, madrigal for 3 voices

• Performers: Karl Klein (Organetto); Franz Eder (Trombone); Sterling Jones (Viol); Willard Cobb (Tenor); Viktor Lukas (Organ); Grayston Burgess (Countertenor); Nigel Vocal] (Tenor); Andrea Ramm (Organetto); Don Smithers (Cornet); Thomas Binkley (Lute)
• Ensemble: Studio der frühen Musik
• Running Time: 3 min. 16 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance

Ward, John : Fantasia a 4 for viols no 1 in C minor

• Ensemble: Concentus Musicus Wien
• Running Time: 3 min. 38 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance

Wilson, John : Stay, O Stay

• Performers: Sterling Jones (Viol); Viktor Lukas (Organ); Thomas Binkley (Lute); Nigel Vocal] (Tenor); Andrea Ramm (Organetto); Karl Klein (Organ); Willard Cobb (Tenor); Don Smithers (Cornet); Franz Eder (Trombone); Grayston Burgess (Countertenor)
• Ensemble: Studio der frühen Musik
• Running Time: 1 min. 30 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque

Wilson, John : Beauty Which All Men Admire

• Performers: Don Smithers (Cornet); Viktor Lukas (Organ); Thomas Binkley (Lute); Andrea Ramm (Organetto); Grayston Burgess (Countertenor); Franz Eder (Trombone); Karl Klein (Tenor); Willard Cobb (Tenor); Sterling Jones (Viol); Nigel Vocal] (Tenor)
• Ensemble: Studio der frühen Musik
• Running Time: 1 min. 5 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque

Hingeston, John : Fantasia for trumpet, trombone & continuo

• Performers: Thomas Binkley (Lute); Nigel Vocal] (Tenor); Andrea Ramm (Organetto); Willard Cobb (Tenor); Grayston Burgess (Countertenor); Sterling Jones (Viol); Karl Klein (Viol); Franz Eder (Trombone); Don Smithers (Cornet); Viktor Lukas (Organ)
• Ensemble: Studio der frühen Musik
• Running Time: 2 min. 22 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque

Campion, Thomas : Come, you pretty false-ey'd wanton

• Performers: Nigel Vocal] (Tenor); Andrea Ramm (Organetto); Viktor Lukas (Organ); Don Smithers (Cornet); Willard Cobb (Tenor); Sterling Jones (Viol); Franz Eder (Trombone); Grayston Burgess (Countertenor); Thomas Binkley (Lute); Karl Klein (Countertenor)
• Ensemble: Studio der frühen Musik
• Running Time: 2 min. 45 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance

Anonymous : Deerest Love

• Performers: Franz Eder (Trombone); Karl Klein (Organ); Grayston Burgess (Countertenor); Viktor Lukas (Organ); Sterling Jones (Viol); Don Smithers (Cornet); Nigel Vocal] (Tenor); Andrea Ramm (Organetto); Thomas Binkley (Lute); Willard Cobb (Tenor)
• Ensemble: Studio der frühen Musik
• Running Time: 2 min. 9 sec.

Locke, Matthew : Suite, for 4 viols & optional continuo no 2 in D minor/D major (Consort of Fower Parts no 2)

• Ensemble: Concentus Musicus Wien
• Running Time: 8 min. 41 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque
• Written: by 1678

Anonymous : Nothing on Earth

• Performers: Thomas Binkley (Lute); Nigel Vocal] (Tenor); Andrea Ramm (Organetto); Grayston Burgess (Countertenor); Franz Eder (Trombone); Willard Cobb (Tenor); Don Smithers (Cornet); Viktor Lukas (Organ); Karl Klein (Lute); Sterling Jones (Viol)
• Ensemble: Studio der frühen Musik
• Running Time: 3 min. 45 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance

Lupo, Thomas : Fantasia à 3 no 20

• Ensemble: Concentus Musicus Wien
• Running Time: 2 min. 9 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance

Johnson, Robert (II) : Care charming sleep

• Performers: Thomas Binkley (Lute); Sterling Jones (Viol); Don Smithers (Cornet); Viktor Lukas (Organ); Willard Cobb (Tenor); Andrea Ramm (Organetto); Nigel Vocal] (Tenor); Grayston Burgess (Countertenor); Franz Eder (Trombone); Karl Klein (Organ)
• Ensemble: Studio der frühen Musik
• Running Time: 4 min. 44 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance
• Written: circa 1614