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The Rise of Instrumental Music (1450-1650) / A History of Music Century Vol 10

1 CD / Harmonia Mundi / 2012-01-10

Works: Cipriano de Rore: Anchor che col partire, madrigal; Jacob van Eyck: Questa dolce sirena for solo recorder after Gastoldi; Josquin Desprez: Scaramella va alla guerra, song for 4 parts; Heinrich Isaac:...
Performers: Bellocq, Eric; Martin, Andreas [Lute]; Moscardo, Massimo; O'Dette, Paul; Schroder, Karl-Ernst; Verbruggen, Marion; Young, Crawford [Lute, Guitar]
Conductors: Pandolfo, Paolo; Douglass, David; Barlow, Jeremy
Ensemble: Broadside Band; King's Noyse; Labyrinto

Music from a Tudor Court

1 CD / Gift of Music / 2011-04-26

Works: John Dowland: My Lord Willobes Wellcome Home, P 66; Robin, P 70; Thomas Robinson: Plaine Song; A Toy; Fantasy; Twenty waies; John Danyel: A Fancy, for 2 lutes; Francis Pilkington: Echo & Fancy; Anony...
Performers: Sayce, Lynda; Spring, Matthew

Delicate lute duets which conjure images of a courtly scene. This collection of Tudor music for two lutes includes works by the important and famous...continue...

All the Queen's Men / Music for Elizabeth I

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2011-03-29

Works: Thomas Weelkes: As Vesta was from Latmos hill descending, madrigal for 6 voices; Thomas Hunt: Hark! did ye ever hear so sweet a singing?, madrigal for 6 voices; William Byrd: O Lord, make Thy servant...
Performers: Heringman, Jacob [Lute]
Conductors: Mackay, Andrew

The "Virgin Queen" Elizabeth I was the focal point of all England - the subject, dedicatee and audience for much of the music composed and...continue...
Recording information: Sarum St Martin, Salisbury, Wilts, UK (07/17/2009-07/18/2009)....continue...

Not Just Dowland

1 CD / Wigmore Hall Live / 2010-02-23

Works: Philip Rosseter: Prelude, for lute; Robert Johnson: Away Delights, for soprano voice & 10-string lute; Oh, let us howl; Care charming sleep; Pavan 3 for lute in C minor; Have you seen but a white lil...
Performers: Wadsworth, Matthew

"Everything was so perfect, the evening seemed to pass in a flash," was The Independent's verdict on the Wigmore Hall recital in December 2008 by...continue...
Recording information: Wigmore Hall, London, England (12/07/2008)....continue...

The Knight of the Lute - Music from the Varietie of Lute Lessons / Matthew Wadsworth

1 Super Audio CD / Channel Classics / 2009-03-10

Works: John Dowland: Sir John Smith, his Almain, for lute, P 47; Queene Elizabeth, her Galliard, P 41; King of Denmark, his Galliard, P 40; The Right Honourable Ferdinando Earl of Derby, his Galliard, for l...
Performers: Wadsworth, Matthew

In his youth, lutenist Matthew Wadsworth spent hours listening to recordings of his idol, Julian Bream. Since that time, it was one of his life's...continue...

The Artistry of Emma Kirkby

4 CD / BIS (Sweden) / 2009-02-09

Works: George Frederick Handel: Gloria, for soprano & orchestra (discovered in 2001); Salve Regina, antiphon for soprano, strings, organ & continuo in G minor, HWV 241; O qualis de coelo sonus, motet for so...
Performers: Abberger, John; Carter, William; Charlston, Terence; Georgi, Thomas; Gwilt, Richard; Harris, Lucas [Lute]; Kirkby, Emma; Laurence Cummings [Conductor/Harpsichord]; Lindberg, Jakob; Mellon, Agnes [Sop...
Conductors: Cummings, Laurence; Medlam, Charles;
Ensemble: ; Theatre of Early Music

With her almost supernaturally clear and agile soprano, Emma Kirkby has enchanted audiences ever since she first appeared on the Early Music scene in the...continue...

Forlorn Hope Fancy

1 CD / ABC Classics Import / 2008-12-23

Works: John Dowland: My Lady Hunsdon's Allemande, Dowland; A Fancy (73); Fortune My Foe, song arranged for lute, P 62; The Right Honourable Ferdinando Earl of Derby, his Galliard, for lute; Forlorn Hope Fan...
Performers: Hodgson, Rosemary

Time stands still in this album of delicate, intricate beauty from lute virtuoso rosemary hodgson. Elegant renaissance airs and dances come to life, evoking a...continue...

Why Not Here - Music for Two Viols - Ford, Ferrabosco, etc / Perl, Heumann, Santata, Freimuth

1 CD / Accent / 2008-10-04

Works: Thomas Ford: Pavane and Galliard; M. Maynes Choice; Musicke of Sundrie Kindes, Pt 2; John Jenkins: Fantasia; John Danyel: Passymeasures Galliard for 2 Lutes; Fancye for 2 Lutes; Alfonso Ferrabosco: A...
Performers: Freimuth, Michael; Heumann, Friederike; Perl, Hille; Santana, Lee

Around 1600 the composers of English music for viols followed a specific style direction known as lyra viol music. From the time between 1601 and...continue...

Daniels: Lute Songs / Charles Daniels, Nigel North

1 CD / ATMA / 2007-09-25

Works: Alfonso Ferrabosco: Come My Celia, Let Us Prove, for voice & lute; Like Hermit poor (Ayres, 1609); So, so, leave off this last lamenting kisse (from Ayres 1609); Thomas Campion: Fire, fire, fire, fir...
Performers: Daniels, Charles; North, Nigel [Lute]

English tenor Charles Daniels' selection of lute songs for this recording is proof that there were many Renaissance composers besides Dowland who could combine words...continue...

Awake, Sweet Love... / James Bowman, Miller, King's Consort

1 CD / Hyperion / 2007-08-14

Works: John Dowland: Can she excuse, P 42; Lachrimae or Seaven Teares; Farewell; Second Booke of Songes; Queene Elizabeth, her Galliard, P 41; A Pilgrimes Solace; Firste Booke of Songes; Preludium, P 98; Fa...
Performers: Bowman, James [Countertenor Vocal]; David Miller [Lute/Baroque Guitar]
Conductors:
Ensemble: King's Consort

'Restores a dimension of beauty that is often sacrificed in present day performances ... Happy the family that spent its leisure hours with this music,...continue...

Lute Music of the Renaissance / Joachim Held

1 CD / Hanssler Classic / 2005-05-11

Works: Anonymous: Volte; Corante, for lute (from "Testudo Gallo-Germanica," 1615); Corante, for lute (Venetijs, 1616); John Dowland: La mia Barbara, pavan for lute, P 95; Lady Rich, her Galliard, P 43; Une ...
Performers: Held, Joachim

The Tabulaturbuch is one of the most important manuscripts for the six- to eleven-course lute from the transition period between the Renaissance and Baroque. All...continue...

Rosamund / Fred Edgar Gilbert

1 CD / CD Baby Independants / 2003-02-18

Works: Anonymous: Almain; Fansie for lute; New Almaine for lute; Fantasia; Ann Markham's Pavane; John Dowland: Work(s); Anthony De Countie: Anthony Pavyn for lute; Antony Holborne: Sedet Sola, pavanne; The ...
Performers: Cohen, Jay; Gilbert, Fred Edgar

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...

Dowland, Johnson: Music for 2 Lutes / Lindberg, O'Dette

1 CD / BIS (Sweden) / 1994-09-22

Works: Anonymous, English: Drewie's Accordes, for 2 lutes; Anonymous: A Mery Moode, for 2 lutes; Le rossignol; Alfonso Ferrabosco: Spanish Pavan; John Dowland: My Lord Willobes Wellcome Home, P 66; My Lord ...
Performers: Lindberg, Jakob; O'Dette, Paul