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William Byrd: Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, Vol. 2 / Pieter-Jan Belder, virginal, chest organ

2 CD / Brilliant Classics / 2013-01-29

Works: William Byrd: Walsingham, variations for keyboard, MB 8; Prelude for keyboard in A minor, MB 12; Fantasia, for keyboard in A minor, MB 13; Fantasia, for keyboard in G major, MB 62; The Carman's Whist...
Performers: Belder, Pieter-Jan

The release is an engaging follow-up to the first volume in the series, extending its instrumental range to include performances on a 1604 virginal by...continue...
Recording information: Doopsgezinde Gemeente Dordrecht (05/26/2012/06/01/2012); Westvestkerk, Schiedam (05/26/2012/06/01/2012); Doopsgezinde Gemeente Dordrecht (10/19/2011-10/20/2011); Westvestkerk, S...continue...

The Shakespeare Concerts Series, Vol. 1: Shakespeare's Memory / Chad Sloan, Andrea Chenoweth, Kellie Van Horn

1 CD / Navona / 2013-01-29

Works: Joseph Summer: With Mirth in Funeral, for baritone & piano (from Oxford Songs); On The Death Of A Fair Infant, for voice & string quartet; Leda and the Swan; Full Fathom Five, for mezzo-soprano, teno...
Performers: Chenoweth, Andrea [Soprano Vocal]; Ferrante, Maria; Hartelova, Lydie; Sekera, Miroslav; Sloan, Chad [Baritone Vocal]; Van Horn, Kellie; Vickers, Justin; Watson, Ian
Conductors:
Ensemble: Kalmia String Quartet

Shakespeare's Memory is the first offering in Navona's Shakespeare Concerts Series. Vol. 1 includes Summer's original chamber and vocal compositions set to Shakespeare's dramas and...continue...

A Tribute to Gustav Leonhardt: The Last Recordings / with Philippe Herreweghe, Elisabeth Joye, Gilles Cantagrel

5 CD / Alpha Productions / 2012-07-10

Works: François Couperin: Messe propre pour les convents de religieux & religieuses; Suite 1, for viola da gamba & continuo (Pièces de viole); Suite 2, for viola da gamba & continuo (Piè...
Performers: Leonhardt, Gustav; Valetti, Pablo
Conductors: ; Leonhardt, Gustav
Ensemble: Café Zimmerman; Café Zimmermann

Alpha pays homage to Gustav Leonhardt in a lavish box set comprising the last five recordings made by this great pioneer. The set also includes...continue...

Harpsichord Music from England, Spain and Portugal, 16th - 18th centuries / Zuzana Ruzickova, harpsichord

2 CD / Supraphon / 2012-07-05

Works: John Dowland: Melancholy Galliard; The Shoemaker's Wife, a Toy, for lute, P 58; My Lady Hunsdon's Allemande, Dowland; Ferdinando Richardson: Pavana (Fitzwilliam Virginal Book); Anonymous: Almande; Jo...
Performers: Ruzickova, Zuzanna

To celebrate the 85th birthday of the "First Lady of the Harpsichord", Supraphon is once more returning to Zuzana Ruicková's extensive discography. Hot on the...continue...

Harpsichord Music for a Thin Place - works by F. Couperin, L. Couperin, Forqueray and J.S. Bach / Paul Cienniwa, harpsichord

1 CD / Whaling City Sounds / 2012-05-08

Works: François Couperin: Premier prélude for harpsichord in C major (L'Art de toucher le clavecin); Quatrième prélude for harpsichord in F minor (L'art de toucher le clavecin); Cinqui&#...
Performers: Cienniwa, Paul

This recording contains slow, meditative harpsichord pieces, favoring major keys over minor keys. From the selection of repertoire to its preparation to the recording venue...continue...
Recording information: St. Francis of Assisi Parish, Swansea, MA (09/07/2011-09/08/2011)....continue...

The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, Vol. 1 / Bull, Farnaby, Peerson, Byrd, Belder et al. / Pieter-Jan Belder, harpsichords

2 CD / Brilliant Classics / 2012-03-27

Works: John Bull: Walsingham, for keyboard, MB 85; Piper's galliard, for keyboard; Praeludium (no 43) (Fitzwilliam Virginal Book); Work(s); Pavan and Galliard for keyboard, MB 86 ("Fantastic"); King's Hunt,...
Performers: Belder, Pieter-Jan

This remarkable collection of works for the small harpsichord is found in the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. It is the largest collection of Elizabethan and...continue...
Recording information: Hervormde Kerk, Mijnsheerenland, The Netherlands (09/2010)....continue...

Byrd: Complete Fantasias For Harpsichord / Glen Wilson, harpsichord

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2011-10-25

Works: William Byrd: Prelude for keyboard in F major; Fantasia, for keyboard in G major, MB 62; Prelude for keyboard in A minor, MB 12; Fantasia, for keyboard in A minor, MB 13; Prelude for keyboard in C ma...
Performers: Wilson, Glen

The fantasia was in the process of being adapted for keyboard from lute and consort music during William Byrd's youth, and his formidable mastery of...continue...
Recording information: Kloster Bronnbach, Wertheim (05/13/2010-05/16/2010)....continue...

Mr Tomkins: Lessons of Worthe / Keyboard Music of Byrd, Bull, Tomkins & Tallis / Bertrand Cuiller

1 CD / Mirare / 2011-08-09

Works: John Bull: Chromatic Pavan & Galliard (Queen Elizabeth's); My jewel; Fantasia for keyboard, MB 11; Thomas Tomkins: Offertory for keyboard; Robbin Hood, for keyboard; Ut, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La, "For a B...
Performers: Cuiller, Bertrand

With his anthology Lessons of Worthe, the great Renaissance composer Thomas Tomkins placed his seal of approval on some the finest works of his time....continue...
Recording information: Château de Coussay (10/28/2010-10/31/2010)....continue...

A Cleare Day: Pieces from the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book / Kenneth Weiss, virginals, harpsichord

1 CD / Satirino / 2011-07-12

Works: John Munday: Fantasia, for harpsichord; John Dowland: Lachrimae Pavan, P 15; William Byrd: Galliard, for keyboard in D minor no 2, MB 53; Will you walk the woods so wylde; Alman (The Queen's Alman), ...
Performers: Weiss, Kenneth

Recording information: Centre Culturel de l'Entente Cordiale - Château d'Harde (06/19/2010/06/20/2010)....continue...

Insturments from the Rodger Mirrey Collection

1 CD / Delphian Records / 2011-03-08

Works: Louis Couperin: Prelude for Harpsichord in C major; Allemande for Harpsichord in C major; Courante for harpsichord in C major (Pièces de clavecin, no 16); Sarabande for harpsichord in C major (P...
Performers: Kitchen, John

St. Cecilia’s Hall is the oldest purpose-built concert hall in Scotland, dating from 1763. In 2005, the world-famous Raymond Russell Collection of Early Keyboard Instruments...continue...
Recording information: St Cecilia's Hall, Edinburgh (2008-12-17&2009-07-13_2009-)....continue...

William Byrd: For My Ladye Nevell

1 CD / Deux Elles / 2010-02-09

Works: William Byrd: My Lady Nevell's Ground, for keyboard, MB 57; The Battell; Gaillard for the Victory, for keyboard, MB 95; Pavan ("Echo") & Galliard, for keyboard in G major no 5, MB 114 (doubtful); Pav...
Performers: Charlston, Terence

"On the surface Byrd's keyboard pieces challenge the dexterity of the player. But the real virtuosity of Byrd lies in the composers' willingness to notate...continue...
Recording information: Holy Trinity Church, Weston, Hitchin (01/23/2008-01/24/2008)....continue...

Darke Is My DeLight [Hybrid SACD] / Flanders Recorder Quartet

1 Super Audio CD / Aeolus / 2009-11-10

Works: Anonymous: Dark is my delight; This Merry Pleasant Spring; Hugh Ashton's Maske; Willow Song; Capricio & Volta du Tambour; John Dowland: Second Booke of Songes; William Byrd: Sermone blando a 4 no 2, ...
Performers: Dieltiens, Amaryllis; Naessens, Bart; Verstraete, Marie
Conductors:
Ensemble: Flanders Recorder Quartet

Since its founding in 1987, the Flanders Recorder Quartet has evolved into one of the world's top ensembles. After more than 1,500 concerts on five...continue...
Recording information: AMUZ, Antwerp (01/2008)....continue...

Byrd: Keyboard Works / Patrick Ayrton

1 CD / Globe / 2009-09-01

Works: William Byrd: Sellinger's Round, variations for keyboard, MB 84; Walsingham, variations for keyboard, MB 8; Pavan & Galliard ("Lachrymae"), for keyboard (pavan by Dowland, Galliard by Harding; arr. b...
Performers: Ayrton, Patrick

The Queen - Music for Elizabeth 1 / Toronto Consort

1 CD / Marquis Classic / 2009-05-19

Works: Thomas Tomkins: See, See the Shepheards' Queene for 5 voices (madrigal); John Dowland: Can she excuse, P 42; Say love if ever thou ditst find, D 58; Firste Booke of Songes; Anonymous, English: Brave ...
Performers: Deboer, Michele; Fallis, David; Hill, Katherine; Jenkins, Paul; Melville, Alison; Pepper, John; Pudwell, Laura; Terry McKenna [Lute/Guitar]
Conductors:
Ensemble: Toronto Consort

With their usual charm and passion, the Toronto Consort recreates musical life at the court of Elizabeth I. Many of these songs were written for...continue...
Includes time stands still (dowland) / lady frances sidneys by various composers....continue...

16th Century Keyboard Music

1 CD / CRD Records / 2009-05-01

Works: William Byrd: Work(s); Thomas Tallis: Work(s); Orlando Gibbons: Work(s); John Bull: Work(s); William Randall: Transcription for keyboard of Dowland's Lachrimae and Galliard 'Can She Excuse'; Giles Fa...
Performers: Pinnock, Trevor

Jewels of the Renaissance Era

1 CD / Analekta / 2008-08-01

Works: Thoinot Arbeau: Branle des chevaulx; Anonymous, Spanish: Propinan de Melyor, for ensemble (Colombina Songbook); Antony Holborne: The Funerals and Galliards, for mute cornett & 4 violas da gamba; Engl...
Performers: Beauséjour, Luc; Bouchard, Antoine; Mercer, Shannon [Soprano]; Michaud, Natalie; Soly, Geneviève; White, Matthew [Countertenor Vocal]
Conductors: ; Jackson, Christopher; Patenaude, Gilbert; Tinsley, James
Ensemble: ; Ensemble Masques (Classical); Les Voix Baroques; Niagara Brass Ensemble; Strada; Studio de Musique Ancienne de Montréal

During the Renaissance period, the philosophical and artistic values of classical Greek and Roman antiquity were revived and combined with new attitudes and beliefs. Analektas...continue...

Famous Works for Harpsichord - Couperin, et al / Beauséjour

1 CD / Analekta / 2008-07-01

Works: François Couperin: Pièces de clavecin, Book 2; Soeur Monique, for harpsichord (Pièces de clavecin, III, 18e ordre); Christian Pezold: Minuet, for keyboard no 1 in G major (Anna Magda...
Performers: Beausejour, Luc

"French Canadian harpsichordist Luc Beausejour presents a program entitled "Famous Works for Harpsichord" that will appeal to either the harpsichord conversant or, more especially, to...continue...

English Music of the 17th Century

2 CD / Teldec (USA) Import / 2008-04-15

Works: William Lawes: Suite no 2 à 5 in F major; Sonata no 7 in D minor; Suite no 3 in B flat major; Orlando Gibbons: Pavan, for 6 viols, MB41; Fantasias (10) for Keyboard; Giles Farnaby: Fantasia no ...
Performers: Binkley, Thomas; Burgess, Grayston; Cobb, Willard; Eder, Franz; Jones, Sterling; Klein, Karl Heinz; Leonhardt, Gustav; Lukas, Viktor; Ramm, Andrea von; Smithers, Don; Vocal], Nigel Rogers [Tenor
Conductors:
Ensemble: Concentus Musicus Wien; Leonhardt Consort; Studio der frühen Musik

Rubio Harpsichords

1 Super Audio CD / Aliud / 2008-01-13

Works: William Byrd: Pavan & Galliard ("Ph. Tregian"), for keyboard in F major, no 2, MB 60; Melchior Schildt: Paduana Lachrymae; Girolamo Frescobaldi: Il secondo libro de toccate, canzone...di cimbalo et o...
Performers: Brouwer, Johan

Recording information: church of Westerwijtwerd (05/10/1995/05/11/1995)....continue...

Byrd: My Ladye Nevells Booke / Elizabeth Farr

3 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2007-07-31

Works: William Byrd: My Lady Nevell's Ground, for keyboard, MB 57; Qui passe for my Lady Nevell, MB 19; The March before the Battle, or, The Earl of Oxford's March, for keyboard, MB 93; The Battle, for keyb...
Performers: Farr, Elizabeth

"This top-notch version by American harpsichordist Elizabeth Farr is especially welcome. Farr's style is sober and rich, which tends to match the book's contents --...continue...

Dowland: The Collected Works / Rooley, Consort of Musicke

12 CD / Decca / 2007-03-13

Works: John Dowland: The Firste Booke of Songes or Ayres of Fowre Parts; The Second Booke of Songs or Ayres of 2, 4. and 5. parts; The Third and Last Booke of Songs or Aires; A Pilgrimes Solace, lute song; ...
Performers: Bailes, Anthony; Lindberg, Jakob; North, Nigel [Lute]; Rooley, Anthony [Lute]; Simpson, Glenda; Tilney, Colin; Wilson, Christopher [Lute]
Conductors: Rooley, Anthony
Ensemble: Consort of Musicke

This acclaimed 12 CD box of Dowland's collected works features Anthony Rooley directing the Consort of Musicke and is a complete set of all of...continue...

War & Peace - Philips, Gibbons, Byrd, etc / Bob van Asperen

1 CD / Aeolus / 2006-07-01

Works: Anonymous: Batalha de 6 Ton for Organ; Wilhelmus van Nassouwe; Terpsichore; Antonio de Cabezón: Tiento del primer tono; Francis Correa de Arauxo: Libro de tientos y discursos...; Jan Pieterszo...
Performers: Asperen, Bob van

In 1568 William of Orange-Nassau, called the "Silent", started a resistance movement in the Netherlands against the increasingly bloody oppression and heretical persecution by Phillip...continue...

The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book / Byron Schenkman

1 CD / Centaur / 2003-10-12

Works: William Byrd: O mistress mine, I must, MB 83; Callino casturame, MB 35; Lachrymae Pavan (Dowland), MB 54; Anonymous: Barafostus' Dreame; Packington's Pound; Heaven and Earth; Edward Johnson: Jhonson'...
Performers: Eilander, Maxine; Schenkman, Byron

The Perfect Gentleman / Patrick Denecker, Guy Penson

1 CD / Pavane / 2003-09-30

Works: Jan Jacob Van Eyck: Der Fluyten Lust-hof; Nicola Matteis: Ground after the Scotch Humour; William Byrd: Rowland, or Lord Willoughby's Welcome home, MB 7; Lavolta; George Frederick Handel: Sonata for ...
Performers: Denecker, Patrick; Penson, Guy

Greatest Hits - Pachelbel and other Baroque Favorites

1 CD / Decca / 2003-02-11

Works: Johann Pachelbel: Canon and Gigue for 3 Violins and Basso Continuo in D major; Partie á 4, for violin, 2 violas & violone (or continuo) in G major, T. 339; Tomaso Albinoni: Adagio for Organ and ...
Performers: Friedrich, Reinhold [Trumpet]; Garatti, Maria Teresa; Hardenberger, Håkan [Trumpet]; Haskil, Clara; Holliger, Heinz; Hurford, Peter; Jones, Philip; Läubin, Bernhard; Läubin, Hannes; L...
Conductors: Munchinger, Karl; Goebel, Reinhard; ; Minkowski, Marc; Negri, Vittorio; Howarth, Elgar
Ensemble: ; Dresden Staatskapelle; I Musici; Les Musiciens du Louvre - Grenoble; Musica Antiqua Köln

This selection features both DDD and ADD recordings....continue...

Parthenaia or the Maydenhead / Mary Jane Newman

1 CD / Centaur / 2003-02-07

Works: William Byrd: Prelude in G minor, MB 1; Pavan and Galliard in G minor no 2, MB 3 "Sir William Petre"; Prelude in C major, MB 24; Galliard in C major no 4, MB 34 "Mistress Mary Brownlow"; Pavan and Ga...
Performers: Newman, Mary Jane [Conductor, Organ, Harpsichord]

Byrd: Music for the Virginals / Aapo Häkkinen

1 CD / Alba / 2002-02-01

Works: William Byrd: Prelude in F major, MB 115; Pavan and Galliard in F major no 2, MB 60 "Ph. Tregian"; Lachrymae Pavan (Dowland), MB 54; Prelude in G major, MB 116; Echo Pavan and Galliard in G major, MB...
Performers: Häkkinen, Aapo

Music of Tudor and Jacobean England / Peter Watchorn

4 CD / CD Baby Independants / 2001-08-23

Works: Tisdale's Virginal Book: Passamezzo Pavan (Tisdale's Virginal Book-TVB); Passamezzo Galliard (TVB); William Randall: Johnson's Medley, for keyboard; Dowland's Lachrymae (TVB); Transcription for keybo...
Performers: Watchorn, Peter

Armada - Music from the Courts of England & Spain / Fretwork

2 CD / EMI Classics / 2000-10-10

Works: William Byrd: Rejoice unto the Lord; The Carman's Whistle, air & variations for keyboard, MB 36; Psalmes, Sonets and Songs; In angel's weed; Fantasia a 5, for instrumental consort in C major; Work(s)...
Performers: Boothby, Richard [Viola da Gamba]; Campbell, Richard; Chance, Michael; Gillespie, Wendy; Hodgson, Julia; Hunt, William; Little, Elizabeth [Viola, Bass Viol, Strings, Viol; Nicholson, Paul [Harpsichor...

The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book / Charivari Agréable

1 CD / Signum UK / 1999-11-21

Works: William Byrd: Walsingham, MB 8; Rowland, or Lord Willoughby's Welcome home, MB 7; Gypsies' Round, MB 80; Giles Farnaby: Loath to Depart; L. Zouche's Maske; Fitzwilliam Virginal Book; Variations on "U...
Performers: Heinrich, Susanne; Heringman, Jacob; Ichise, Reiko; Jennings, Rupert; Ng, Kah-Ming; Pell, Susanna; Sayce, Lynda; Webber, Oliver
Conductors:
Ensemble: Charivari Agréable

Vox Virginalis - Byrd, Philips, Bull, Morley / Taylor

1 CD / ATMA / 1999-09-01

Works: Anonymous, English: My Lady Carey's Dompe (Royal, App. 58); Master Newman: Pavyon, for keyboard (Mulliner Book no 116); William Byrd: Hugh Aston's Ground, for keyboard, MB 20; Fortune, variations for...
Performers: Taylor, Rachelle

The Caged Byrd / I Fagiolini, Concordia, Sophie Yates

1 CD / Chandos Records / 1997-09-16

Works: William Byrd: Liber primus sacrarum cantionum; Crowned with flow'rs and lilies, consort song for voice & viols; Pavan & Galliard ("Sir William Petre"), for keyboard in G minor no 2, MB 3; O quam glor...
Performers: Blaze, Robin; Brook, Roderick; Crookes, Anna; Lane, Carys-Anne; Roberts, Richard Wyn; Smith, Nicholas Hurndall; Vocal], Matthew Brook [Bass-Baritone; Williams, Roderick [Bass-Baritone Vocal]; Wilson,...
Conductors: Hollingworth, Robert;
Ensemble: Concordia Orchestra; I Fagiolini

"...What a pleasure to run into [I Fagiolini] again in Byrd, the mother's milk of English choral singers...the disc is a pleasure. This is a...continue...

Great Virtuosi of the Harpsichord Vol 3 / Violet Woodhouse

1 CD / Pearl / 1996-11-19

Works: Henry Purcell: Gavotte, for keyboard in G major (doubtful), ZD 220; Johann Sebastian Bach: French Suite, for keyboard no 4 in E flat major (variant), BWV 815a; Fugue for keyboard in D minor, BWV 948 ...
Performers: Woodhouse, Violet Gordon

Byrd: John Come Kisse Me Now / John Whitelaw

1 CD / Talent / 1996-03-14

Works: William Byrd: The Bells, MB 38; Ut re mi fa sol la, for keyboard in G major, MB 64; John come kiss me now, variations for keyboard, MB 81; A Medley, for keyboard, MB 112 (doubtful; from the Fitzwilli...
Performers: Whitelaw, John

Music of William Byrd / The New York Consort of Viols

1 CD / Lyrichord / 1995-04-21

Works: William Byrd: Rejoice unto the Lord; Pavan & Galliard ("Ph. Tregian"), for keyboard in F major, no 2, MB 60; Who Made Thee, Hob, Forsake the Plough?, dialogue for 2 voices & 4 viols; Browning a 5, fo...
Performers: Bagger, Louis; Crout, Tamara; Lipnik, Lawrence; Morley, Rosamund; Neely, Patricia
Conductors:
Ensemble: New York Consort of Viols

The Queen's Command - Elizabethan Keyboard Music

1 CD / BIS (Sweden) / 1992-02-01

Works: Orlando Gibbons: The Queen's Command, for keyboard, MB28; The fairest nymph; Lincoln's Inn mask, for keyboard, MB44; Fantasia on the 2nd tone (transposed), for keyboard, MB8; The woods so wild, for k...
Performers: Payne, Joseph

Englische Virginalisten

1 CD / Orfeo / 1988-12-12

Works: William Byrd: Lavolta, for keyboard no 2 in G minor, MB 91; Pavan & Galliard ("Passamezzo"), for keyboard in G minor no 1, MB 2; Wolsey's Wild (Wilson's Wild), variations for keyboard, MB 37; The Mar...
Performers: Ruzickova, Zuzanna