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Chansons & Madrigals of the Renaissance / A History of Music Century Vol 9

1 CD / Harmonia Mundi / 2012-01-10

Works: Josquin Desprez: Faulte d'argent, canonic chanson for 5 voices; Claude Le Jeune: Une puce; Autant en emporte le vent; Loyset Compère: Nous sommes de l'ordre de St Babouin; Clément Janeq...
Performers: Deller, Alfred; Kirkby, Emma
Conductors: Visse, Dominique; Hillier, Paul; Van Nevel, Paul; Jacobs, René; Christie, William
Ensemble: Concerto Vocale; Ensemble Clément Janequin; Huelgas Ensemble; Les Arts Florissants; The Hilliard Ensemble

Songs and Dances from Shakespeare

1 CD / Saydisc / 2011-01-11

Works: Robert Johnson: Full fathom five; Where the bee sucks; Hark, hark! the lark; Get You Hence; Anonymous, English: O Mistresse Mine; The Poor Soul Sat Sighing, song (a.k.a. "The Willow Songs"); Sellenge...
Performers: Barlow, Jeremy; McLachlan, Alastair; Potter, John [Tenor Vocal]; Roberts, Deborah [Soprano Vocal]; Weigand, George

Relaxing Classics: The Healing Power of the Voice

2 CD / ABC Classics Import / 2010-10-26

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Ave verum corpus; Zaide; Henry Purcell: Oedipus; Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata no 147, "Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben" BWV 147; Cantata no 208; Cantata no 170; Cantata BWV...
Performers: Anderson, Richard; Bradley, Jonathan; Campbell, Fiona; Greene, Andrew; Kenny, Yvonne; Kerrigan, Annalisa; Kimmorley, Sharolyn; Macliver, Sara; Martineau, Malcolm; McMahon, Paul; Montgomery, Belinda; ...
Conductors: Walker, Antony; Weymark, Brett; Noble, Guy; Kelly, Brett; Lang-Lessing, Sebastian; Stanhope, Paul; Milton, Nicholas; Chu, Philip;
Ensemble: ; Cantillation; Ensemble Battistin

As It Fell on A Holie Eve: Early English Christmas Music

1 CD / MSR Classics / 2010-09-14

Works: Thomas Ravenscroft: Remember, O thou man (from Melismata, 1611); William Byrd: Rejoice, rejoice, with heart and voice; Gradualia seu cantiones sacrum, liber secundus, for 3-5 voices; Vidimus stellam ...
Performers: Baird, Julianne
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Ensemble: Parthenia Vocal

Julianne Baird and the viol consort, Parthenia, offer an exquisite program of Christmas music as it might have been performed in the time of Elizabeth...continue...
Recording information: Concert Hall of Drew University, Dorothy Young Center f (06/2009).

Includes work(s) by William Byrd (Composer)....continue...

Byrd: Assumpta es Maria / Andrew Carwood, The Cardinall's Musick

1 CD / Hyperion / 2009-09-08

Works: William Byrd: Propers for the Mass of the Nativity of the Virgin, for 5 voices (Gradualia, Book 1); Quem terra, pontus, aethera; Salve regina; O gloriosa Domina; Gradualia, Volume 1; Memento, salutis...
Performers: Balkwill, William; Budd, Jeremy [Vocals]; Craig, Patrick; Evans, Robert; Gould, David [Vocals]; Lane, Carys-Anne; MacDonald, Robert [Bass Voice]; Osmond, Cecilia; Outram, Rebecca; Stocker, Julian
Conductors: Carwood, Andrew
Ensemble: The Cardinall's Musick

In this latest volume from The Cardinall's Musick's acclaimed Byrd series, the composer's overtly Catholic agenda is clearly displayed. All of the music on this...continue...

Factor orbis - Sacred Vocal Music of the Renaissance - Victoria, Lassus, Obrecht, Byrd, etc / Singer Pur

1 CD / Ars Musici / 2009-08-25

Works: Tomás Luis de Victoria: O Domine Jesu Christe; Orlande de Lassus: In monte Oliveti; Jacob Obrecht: Factor orbis; William Byrd: Liber primus sacrarum cantionum; Carlo Gesualdo: Miserere mei, Deus
Performers: Bauer, Thomas; Höglund, Caroline; Schmidl, Marcus; Wegmann, Christian; Wenk, Klaus; Zapp, Markus
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Ensemble: Singer Pur

"This music must be sung with precision and Singer Pur consistently delivers the goods with performances that are highly musical and technically polished. Take these...continue...

Anthology of English Song 1530-1790 / Burrowes, Luxon, Eathorne, Langridge, et al

2 CD / Lyrita / 2009-04-14

Works: Richard Edwards: Where Griping Grief the Heart Doth Wound; John Danyel: Why Canst Thou Not?; Griefe Keepe Within; Alfonso Ferrabosco: When Daphne from Fair Phoebus Did Fly, consort song; William Byrd...
Performers: Brett, Charles; Burrowes, Norma; Eathorne, Wendy; Gammie, Ian; Jenkins, Neil; Jones, Trevor [Viol]; Kraemer, Nicholas; Langridge, Philip; Lester, Harold; Lewis, Anthony; Lloyd, Robert [Bass Voice]; L...

My Lady Rich / Emily van Evera, Christopher Morrongiello

1 CD / Avie Records / 2009-04-01

Works: English Traditional: How Should I Your True Love Know?, folk song; My little sweet darling, lullaby; Robert Jones: O he is gone; And Is It Night?; John Dowland: Mr Dowland's Midnight, P 99; Lady Rich...
Performers: Campbell, Richard; Carolan, Lucy; Dore, Michael; Heinrich, Susanne; Heringman, Jacob [Lute]; Ichise, Reiko; Morikawa, Asako; Morrongiello, Christopher; Norman, Daniel; Pell, Susanna; Potter, John [Te...

Soprano Emily Van Evera's inspiration for her first Avie recording is Lady Penelope Rich, a 'heart-stealing goddess' who was sister to the Earl of Essex,...continue...

Make We Joy - Music for Advent, Christmas and Epiphany

1 CD / Quilisma (Loft) / 2009-01-01

Works: Christmas Traditional: Of the Father's heart begotten (A Christmas Procession); This is the truth sent from above (English); Work(s); Noël nouvelet, carol (French); Sussex Carol ("On Christmas N...
Performers: Arthur, Malcolm; Carey, Colm; Cooper, Julie; Phillips, Tom [Zamir Chorale]; Poole, Elizabeth; Preston-Dunlop, Emma; Thomas, Elin Manahan; Vocal], Andrew Kennedy [Tenor

Voices of Ascension - Nine Centuries of Choral Music / Keene, Hong, Cole, et al

4 CD / Delos / 2008-11-25

Works: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Sicut cervus; Jesu Rex admirabilis, hymn for 3 voices (from Complete Hymns); Exsultate Deo; Work(s); Alma Redemptoris mater; Sitivit anima mea; Surge illuminare Jeru...
Performers: Baker, Thom [Tenor Vocal]; Bride, Kathleen; Clark, Eileen; Cole, Vinson; Farrell, Neil; Hong, Hei-Kyung; Johnson, Jeffrey [Bass Vocal]; Kruczek, Mark; Montano, Alexandra; Peck, Susanne; Stephens, Pat...
Conductors: Keene, Dennis

"Sheer musical excellence a cohesive, gorgeously blended ensemble." -The New York Times "As for Dennis Keene, there isn't a better choral conductor around" The Washington...continue...

This England - Playford, Morley, et al / Folger Consort

1 CD / CD Baby Independants / 2007-04-01

Works: John Playford: The English Dancing Master; Thomas Morley: O mistress mine, where are you roaming; First Booke of Ayres; The First Booke of Consort Lessons (1599); Now is the gentle season, madrigal i...
Performers: Balestrieri, Amanda; Bleeke, Mark; Chancey, Tina; Covey-Crump, Rogers; Craig, Robert; Eisenstein, Robert; Gillespie, Wendy; Herreid, Grant; Hollinshead, Barbara; Kendall, Christopher; Lushin, Guy; Mi...
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Ensemble: Folger Consort

The Folger Consort celebrates 30 years in residence at the Folger Shakespeare Library by giving early music lovers everywhere a wonderful present. This England: Music...continue...

The Devil's Dream / Ghielmi, Pianca, Gibelli

1 CD / Harmonia Mundi / 2006-12-12

Works: Solomon Eccles: A Ground; Thomas Robinson: Plaine Song; Queene's good night; Fantasy; Thomas Ford: Why not here, M. Crosse his choice; Cate of Bardy, The Queenes Jig; John Dowland: My Lord Willobes W...
Performers: Ghielmi, Vittorio; Gibelli, Graciela; Noir, J.D.; Pianca, Luca

In this their third collaboration with harmonia mundi, Luca Pianca and Vittorio Ghielmi perform English music from the time of Elizabeth I. As with their...continue...

Music for a Great Garden - Byrd, Mozart, et al / Stowe, Souter, et al

1 CD / Gift Of Music / 2004-01-01

Works: William Byrd: All in a garden green, MB 56; Will you walk the woods so wylde; Robert Johnson: Where the bee sucks; English Traditional: The Rowan Tree; Greensleeves, folk song; Hildegard von Bingen: ...
Performers: Bennett, Elinor; Hill, Sarah; Stowe, Sara

Garden themes from our musical heritage. An album of fragrant songs and instrumental pieces from centuries of musical tradition. Titles include 'Greensleeves', 'Where the Bee...continue...

Ninna Nanna - Lullabies. M.figueras, Hespèrion Xxi

1 CD / Alia Vox / 2003-02-01

Works: Jordi Savall: José embala o menino, cançao de embalar for voice & ensemble; Mareta, mareta no'm faces plorar, cançó de bressol for voice & ensemble; La mare de Déu, canç...
Performers: Badura-Skoda, Paul; D?az-Latorre, Xavier; El Maloumi, Driss; Estevan, Pedro; Figueras, Montserrat; Lawrence-King, Andrew; Savall, Arianna; Savall, Jordi
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Ensemble: Hespèrion XXI

"There have been anthologies of lullabies before, but surely few that have ranged as widely as this one...Montserrat Figueras spins beautiful lines from exotic material"...continue...

Byrd: Complete Gradualia Vol 1 / Turner, William Byrd Choir

1 CD / Hyperion / 2002-07-01

Works: William Byrd: Suscepimus Deus, motet for 5 voices (SATTB); Gradualia ac cantiones sacrae, liber primus, for 3-5 voices; Sicut audivimus, motet for 5 voices (SATTB); Senex puerum portabat, motet for 5...
Performers: Ainsley, John Mark; Chance, Michael; Cordier, David; George, Michael; Roberts, Deborah [Soprano Vocal]

"Full of fine singing, both by the full choir and by the strong team of soloists. As a work of reference this disc is superb."...continue...

Fairest Isle - Purcell, Dowland, Byrd, etc / Barbara Bonney

1 CD / Decca Import / 2001-03-13

Works: John Dowland: Come Again; Firste Booke of Songes; Lachrimae or Seaven Teares; Thomas Campion: Never weather-beaten saile more willing bent to shore; Sypres Curten of the Night Is Spread, for voice, l...
Performers: Bonney, Barbara; Heringman, Jacob [Lute]; Manze, Andrew
Conductors: Hogwood, Christopher
Ensemble: Academy of Ancient Music

"This recording is as near perfect, as close to flawless, as one could possibly imagine. Those who need more convincing will not find it here,...continue...

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...

The Early Byrd Vol 1 / I Fagiolini, Fretwork, Sophie Yates

1 CD / Chandos Records / 1995-05-23

Works: William Byrd: Attollite portas (also anthems; Triumph with pleasant melody voices, consort song for voices & 4 viols; O Lord, how vain; All in a garden green, MB 56; Domine secundum actum meum, motet...
Performers: Blaze, Robin; Crookes, Anna; Lane, Carys-Anne; Roberts, Richard Wyn; Yates, Sophie
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Ensemble: Fretwork

Gramophone Classical Music Guide
This disc adopts an imaginative approach to programming Byrd's music by presenting works in different genres grouped together to demonstrate a single...continue...

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
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Ensemble: New York Consort of Viols

Byrd: Consort and Keyboard Music, etc / Rose Consort, et al

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 1994-06-28

Works: William Byrd: Pavan and Galliard a 6 in C major; Susanna fair, for keyboard; Rejoice unto the Lord; John come kiss me now, variations for keyboard, MB 81; Fantasia, for keyboard in C major, no 2, MB ...
Performers: Bonner, Tessa; Roberts, Timothy
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Ensemble: Red Byrd; Rose Consort of Viols

The Ladyes Delight

1 CD / Sono Luminus / 1994-02-15

Works: Richard Reade: A Jigge ye Firste; John Johnson: Chi Passa, for 2 lutes; Thomas Ravenscroft: Yonder Comes a Courteous Knight, for voice(s) & ensemble; Anonymous: Ladyes Delight; Jumpe at my Cozen; How...
Performers: Consort, Baltimore; Cudek, Mark [Cittern]; LaRue, Custer; Lipkis, Larry; McFarlane, Ronn [Lute]; Norman, Chris; Simms, William
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Ensemble: Baltimore Consort

Personnel: Mark Cudek (cittern, viol); Mary Anne Ballard (rebec, viol); Larry Lipkis (viol, recorder).

Baltimore Consort is well-known for their skillful renditions of Renaissance music, and ...continue...

Quink Vocal Ensemble - English Madrigals

1 CD / Telarc / 1993-03-23

Works: Thomas Morley: Now is the month of maying; Farewell, disdainful, madrigal for 3 voices; No, no, Nigella, madrigal for 5 voices; Thomas Tomkins: Too Much I Once Lamented for 5 voices; Phyllis, Now Cea...
Performers: Berne, Harry van; Koetsier, Marjolein; Koning, Kees-Jan de; Van Woerden, Machteld
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Ensemble: Quink Vocal Ensemble