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Hush a Bye: Music for Children - gentle lullabies and quiet music

1 CD / Gift of Music / 2012-10-30

Works: English Traditional: Hush a Bye Baby; Traditional: Sleep My Baby; Mervyn Burtch: Sleep, my gentle child; Frédéric Chopin: Nocturne for piano no 2 in E flat major, Op. 9/2, CT. 109; Anonymou...
Performers: Banks, Jon [Harp]; Giles, Ian; Souter, Martin; Spring, Matthew; Stowe, Sara

Gentle lullabies and quiet music combine to form this special program of music to invite sleep. Unlike most calming programs, this release relies on real...continue...
Includes work(s) by Anonymous....continue...

Two Lutes: Lute Duets from England's Golden Age by Johnson, Marchant, Pilkington, Danyel and Dowland

1 CD / Sono Luminus / 2012-07-31

Works: English Traditional: Greensleeves, folk song; Anonymous: Le rossignol; Almain; Anonymous, English: Drewie's Accordes, for 2 lutes; Robin Is to the Greenwood Gone, ballad; Callinoe; John Johnson: Tren...
Performers: McFarlane, Ronn [Lute]; Simms, William

Sono Luminus is proud to release Two Lutes: Lute Duets from England's Golden Age, a wonderful collection of enchanting music performed by lute virtuosos Ronn...continue...
Recording information: Ayrshire Farm, Upperville, VA (2011-05-18_2011-05-20&2011-)....continue...

Alfred Deller - Portrait of a Legend: Opera & Stage; Sacred Song; Solo Song; Folksong [4 CDs]

4 CD / Harmonia Mundi / 2012-07-10

Works: Henry Purcell: Fairy Queen, Z 629; King Arthur, or The British Worthy, Z 628; Indian Queen, Z 630; Olinda in the shades unseen, song, Z. 404; Thus to a ripe, consenting maid (from "Old Bachelor"), so...
Performers: Arditti, Irvine; Bevan, Maurice; Buttrey, John; Chapuis, Michel; Christie, William [Conductor/Harpsichord]; Deller, Alfred; Deller, Mark; Dupré, Desmond; Elliot, Paul [Tenor Vocal]; Elliott, R...
Conductors: Deller, Alfred
Ensemble: Deller Choir; Deller Consort; Jaye Consort of Viols; King's Musick; Stour Music Festival Chorus; Stour Music Festival Orchestra

An inspired and always deeply moving artist, Alfred Deller was not only one of the greatest countertenors of all time but also an exceptional musician...continue...

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

A Feast for the Senses

1 CD / / 2011-10-25

Works: Anonymous: Flos Regalis, for 4 voices; Veni Mater Gracie / Dou way, Robin, motet (Marial polyphony); Thomas Campion: Peaceful Westerne Winde; Christmas Traditional: Quelle est cette odeur agréab...
Performers: Anderson, Philip; Heijink, Hank; White, Nicholas

Recording information: Concert Hall of Drew University, Dorothy Young Center f (06/2011)....continue...

The Original Jacket Collection: Julian Bream

10 CD / Sony Classical / 2011-10-04

Works: Girolamo Frescobaldi: Aria with Variations, for guitar (music by Frescobaldi arranged by Segovia); Mateo Albéniz: Sonata for piano in D major, Op.13; Domenico Scarlatti: Sonata for Harpsichord i...
Performers: Aronowitz, Cecil; Bream, Julian [Guitar]; Maguire, Hugh; Malcolm, George; Pears, Peter, Sir; Weil, Terence; Williams, John [Guitar]
Conductors: Davis, Colin;
Ensemble: Julian Bream Consort

Three Ravens / Wraggle-Taggle Gypsies / Folksongs by Alfred Deller with Desmond Dupré, lute

1 CD / Musical Concepts / 2011-09-13

Works: English Traditional: The Three Ravens, folk song; The Cuckoo; How Should I Your True Love Know?, folk song; Sweet Nightingale (Down in Those Valleys Below), folk song; The Oak and the Ash (North Coun...
Performers: Deller, Alfred; Dupre, Desmond

Alfred Deller's two most famous LPs now remastered from the original master tapes and released onto one single disc. The master of the folksong tradition....continue...

A Meeting Place: Medieval & Renaissance Music for Lute & Ud

1 CD / Sono Luminus / 2011-05-31

Works: English Traditional: Greensleeves, folk song; Joan Ambrosio Dalza: Piva, for 2 lutes; Calata no 4 "a la spagnola", for lute; Anonymous: Estampie fragment; Lamento di Tristano et La Rotta; Nota; Belle...
Performers: Denhard, August

Münir Nurettin Beken and August Denhard explore the improvisatory richness of a performance tradition that their instruments may have shared in the Middle Ages and...continue...
Recording information: 06/2010....continue...

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...

Tears Of The Muses - Elizabethan Lute Music

1 CD / Scandinavian Classic / 2011-03-29

Works: Anonymous, English: Bergamasca; Watkin's Ale, song; Knoles Galliard, for lute; John Johnson: Passamezzo Pavan; Johnson's Jewel, galliard for lute; Johnson's grounde; Robert Johnson: Almains (2), for ...
Performers: Buhl-Mortensen, Kristian

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

Liberty Tree: Early American Music 1776 - 1861

1 CD / Erato / 2010-11-16

Works: American Traditional: Yankee Doodle, song; Liberty Tree; The Boston March; Jefferson and liberty, song; Rights of Woman; The Appletree; Dormant; Hero & Leander; Mary's Dream; On the road to Boston, f...
Performers: Azema, Anne; Boston Camerata; Cohen, Joel [Early Music]; Collver, Michael; Delorey, John; Evans, Timothy Leigh; Falbel, Stephen; Frederiksen, Joel; Henderson, Megan; Lepkoff, Jesse; Mealy, Robert; Ro...
Conductors: Cohen, Joel [Early Music]
Ensemble: Boston Camerata

Recording information: Mechanics Hall, Worcester, MA (09/15/1997-09/19/1997).

The Boston Camerata, led by Joel Cohen, has made dozens of excellent recordings of music from a variety of European...continue...

Blame Not My Lute: Elizabethan

1 CD / Sono Luminus / 2010-02-23

Works: Scottish Traditional: Bonny sweet boy, folk song; Anonymous: Blame Not My Lute; Peg-a-ramsey; John Dowland: My Lady Hunsdon's Allemande, Dowland; Melancholy Galliard; Lachrimae; Mrs. Winters Jump, fo...
Performers: Davis, Robert Aubry; Goldsmith, Martin; McFarlane, Ronn [Lute]; Townley, Emily

Flying Horse - Music from the ML Lutebook / Elizabeth Kenny

1 CD / Hyperion / 2009-09-08

Works: John Dowland: Doulands Rounde Battele Galyard, P 39; Work(s); Antony Holborne: Last Will and Testament for viol consort; English Traditional: Tom of Bedlam, folk song; Anonymous, English: John Come K...
Performers: Kenny, Elizabeth [Theorbo]

Ownership of the ML Lutebook has been attributed to a number of court musicians since its discovery in 1912, but it was the name 'Margaret'...continue...

New Fashions of London circa 1500 / Redbyrd

1 CD / CRD Records / 2009-05-01

Works: Thomas Ravenscroft: New Oysters, round for 4 voices; Three Blinde Mice, for consort; A Round of Three Country Dances in One, for consort; Well fare the nightingale; Come, Follow Me; Browning Madame, ...
Performers: Brough, Harvey; Freymuth, Dirk; Hadden, Nancy; LeBlanc, Suzie [Soprano Vocals]; Potter, John [Tenor Vocal]; Santana, Lee; Tindemans, Margriet; Wistreich, Richard [Bass Vocals]
Conductors: Hadden, Nancy
Ensemble: Circa 1500; Red Byrd

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...

Altus - From Castrato to Countertenor

3 CD / Virgin Classics / 2009-02-24

Works: Antonio Vivaldi: Giustino, RV 717; Amen; Nisi Dominus in G minor, RV 608; Longe mala umbrae terrores in G minor, RV 629; Pianti, sospiri, RV 676; George Frederick Handel: MEDLEY; Der Messias; Work(s)...
Performers: Asawa, Brian; Blake, Rockwell; Bowman, James [Countertenor Vocal]; Brett, Charles; Cencic, Max Emanuel; Chance, Michael; Daniels, David; Deller, Alfred; Dupré, Desmond; Esswood, Paul; Gens, V&...
Conductors: Spinosi, Jean-Christophe; Lesne, Gérard; Biondi, Fabio [Violin]; Corboz, Michel; Linde, Hans-Martin; Parrott, Andrew; Curtis, Alan; Christie, William; Herreweghe, Philippe; Ledger, Philip, Sir...
Ensemble: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra; City of London Sinfonia; Collegium Vocale; English Chamber Orchestra; Ensemble Artaserse; Ensemble Instrumental de Lausanne; Ensemble Orchestral de Paris; Europa Galan...

The male voice hits an all-time high with this new collection from Virgin Classics. Starting as far back as 1902 with the last of the...continue...

Alfred Deller Complete Vanguard Recordings Vol 1 - Folk Songs and Ballads / Deller Consort

7 CD / Musical Concepts / 2008-07-22

Works: Henry Purcell: Man is for the woman made, Z. 605/3; Sir Walter enjoying his damsel, catch for 3 voices, Z. 273; To thee and to a maid, catch for 3 voices, Z. 283; Fie, nay prithee, John, catch, ZD 10...
Performers: Deller, Alfred; Dupre, Desmond; Sheppard, Honor
Conductors:
Ensemble: London Chamber Players

For the first time ever, the complete Vanguard recordings of the groundbreaking early music artist Alfred Deller will be made available in six deluxe boxed...continue...
Personnel: Alfred Deller & the Deller Consort (countertenor); Desmond Dupre (guitar, lute)....continue...

The Art of Alfred Deller - Classic Vanguard Recordings

1 CD / Musical Concepts / 2008-03-04

Works: English Traditional: The Three Ravens, folk song; The Cuckoo; The Oak and the Ash (North Country Maid), folk song; King Henry, folk song; Greensleeves, folk song; Scottish Traditional: Barbara Allen,...
Performers: Bergmann, Walter; Deller, Alfred; Deller, Mark; Dupre, Desmond; Leonhardt, Gustav
Conductors: ; Deller, Alfred
Ensemble: ; Deller Consort; Ensemble of Baroque Instruments; Leonhardt Baroque Ensemble; Schola Cantorum Basiliensis Wenzinger Consort of V

"Alfred Deller's singing is beguiling and timeless; (Purcell) "Music for a while" (is) from a number of songs which exhibit his essential mastery: everything from...continue...

The Elfin Knight / Joel Frederiksen, et al

1 CD / Harmonia Mundi / 2007-09-11

Works: English Traditional: Whittingham Fair, folk song ("The Elfin Knight"); Greensleeves, folk song; Go from My Window, folk song; Fortune My Foe; Scarborough Fair; Anonymous, English: Walsingham; Lord Da...
Performers: Evans, Timothy Leigh; Frederiksen, Joel; Marincic, Domen; Schwannberger, Sven; Weigl, Helmut
Conductors: Frederiksen, Joel
Ensemble: Ensemble Phoenix Munich

A basso with exceptional timbre, Frederiksen has done his homework and is now able to revive a whole host of folk ballads that are at...continue...

The Water is Wide and other Lute Songs / Perrin, Parsons

2 CD / Meridian / 2007-07-10

Works: British Isles Traditional: The Water Is Wide, folk song; English Traditional: Scarborough Fair; Through Bushes and through Briars; Lillibulero, lute song; The Turtle Dove; The Three Ravens, folk song...
Performers: Parsons, David; Perrin, Nigel

Nigel Perrin sang with the legendary King's Singers from 1968 to 1980. He initially left the group to work for the Church Army in an...continue...

Odyssey

1 CD / CD Baby Independants / 2007-01-30

Works: Bernart de Ventadorn: Non es meravelha s'eu chan; Juan del Encina: Hoy comamos y bebamos, for 4 voices; Irish Traditional: She Moved through the Fair, folk song; English Traditional: Once I Had a Swe...
Performers: Bielefeld, Bob; Dillard, Ray; Dyer, Max; Gay, Martha; Pando, Stefano; Phyfe, Owain; Smith, Malcolm
Conductors:
Ensemble: New World Renaissance Band

The Best of Andreas Scholl

1 CD / Decca Import / 2006-10-10

Works: George Frederick Handel: MEDLEY; Rodelinda; Rinaldo; Giulio Cesare; Christoph Willibald Gluck: Orfeo; Antonio Vivaldi: Salve Regina, antiphon for voice, double chorus, 2 recorders, flute, double stri...
Performers: Armstrong, Siobhán; Bonney, Barbara; Brough, Harvey; Dantone, Ottavio; Karamazov, Edin; Kenny, Elizabeth [Theorbo]; Na, Hyun-Sun; Scholl, Andreas; Shames, Stacey
Conductors: Norrington, Roger; Dyer, Paul; Dantone, Ottavio; Rousset, Christophe
Ensemble: ; Accademia Bizantina; Les Talens Lyriques

The essential collection featuring one-of-a-kind countertenor Andreas Scholl, who burst on the music scene in 1999 to critical acclaim. "Scholl's voice rushes through the bloodstream."...continue...

Britten: Ceremony of Carols; Medieval Chants and Carols

1 CD / CD Baby Independants / 2004-08-03

Works: Benjamin Britten: A Ceremony of Carols, Op. 28; Christmas Traditional: Hodie Christus natus est; Ther Is No Ros' (English, Trinity Roll, 15th c.), carol; Sweet Was the Song, carol (English); Thomas T...
Performers: Linell, Dorothy

Formed in 1883, the choir under the direction of Frederick Burgomaster has achieved an international reputation for excellence in choral music and regularly tours the...continue...

For Your Life - For Your Baby

1 CD / Decca / 2004-01-13

Works: Johannes Brahms: Songs (5) for voice & piano, Op. 49; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Variations (12) for Piano in C major on "Ah vous dirai-je maman", K 265 (300e); Sonata for Piano no 15 in C major ("Sona...
Performers: Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, The; Ambrosini, Jean-Claude; Arrau, Claudio; BBC Concert Orchestra; Berry, Walter; Boston Symphony Orchestra; Burrowes, Norma; English Chamber Orchestra; Eschenba...
Conductors: Marriner, Sir Neville; Solti, Sir Georg; Judd, James; Wordsworth, Barry; Ozawa, Seiji; Previn, Andre; Davis, Carl; Munchinger, Karl
Ensemble: ; Academy of St. Martin in the Fields; BBC Concert Orchestra; Boston Symphony Orchestra; Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra; Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

This selection contains both ADD and DDD recordings.

Personnel: Marilyn Horne (mezzo soprano); Naoko Yoshino (harp); Toyohiko Satoh (lute); Christian Ferras (violin); Julian Lloyd Webber (cel...continue...

Folksongs / Alfred Deller, Mark Deller, Desmond Dupré

1 CD / Harmonia Mundi / 2003-07-01

Works: English Traditional: The Three Ravens, folk song; The Oak and the Ash (North Country Maid), folk song; Lord Rendall, folk song; The Tailor and the Mouse, folk song; Down by the Salley Gardens, folk s...
Performers: Deller, Alfred; Deller, Mark; Dupré, Desmond

Music For My Lady

1 CD / Gift Of Music / 2003-02-01

Works: Scottish Traditional: O Lustie May; My lady binnis lilt (The Wemyss Lute Book); The Laydie Louthian's Lilte (Robert Edward's Book); The Last Time I Came O'er the Moor; Canaries; François Campion...
Performers: Banks, Jon [Harp]; Birt, Heather; McCoy, Stewart; Souter, Martin; Spring, Matthew; Stowe, Sara

Songs of love from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, performed with the gentle accompaniment of the lute. Violin solos and harpsichord and viol consort music...continue...

The Voice / Andreas Scholl

1 CD / Harmonia Mundi / 2001-01-01

Works: English Traditional: The Three Ravens, folk song; Scottish Traditional: Barbara Allen, folk song; George Frederick Handel: Der Messias; MEDLEY; Antonio Vivaldi: Cessate omai cessate, RV 684; Amen; Jo...
Performers: Gasser, Brigitte; Heumann, Friederike; Markl, Markus; Martin, Andreas [Lute]; Scholl, Andreas; Schröder, Karl-Ernst; Verzier, Alix
Conductors: Banchini, Chiara; Herreweghe, Philippe;
Ensemble: Akademie für Alte Musik, Berlin ; Collegium Vocale (Ghent); Ensemble 415

"It's a voice that has no artificial edge or unsteadiness (an unfortunate feature typical of many "made" countertenors) because, according to Scholl himself, this is...continue...

Shakespeare Songs / Alfred Deller, Desmond Dupré, et al

1 CD / Harmonia Mundi / 2000-10-01

Works: Thomas Morley: First Booke of Ayres; O mistress mine, where are you roaming; John Wilson: Take, O Take Those Lips Away; Thomas Weelkes: Strike it up tabor, madrigal for 3 voices; Anonymous: Willow So...
Performers: Dupré, Desmond
Conductors: Deller, Alfred
Ensemble: Deller Consort

Songs for William Shakespeare / Sara Stowe

1 CD / Gift Of Music / 2000-01-01

Works: Robert Johnson: Where the bee sucks; Full fathom five; Hark, hark! the lark; Anonymous, English: Kemp's Gigue; The Poor Soul Sat Sighing, song (a.k.a. "The Willow Songs"); Bergamasca; Sellengers Roun...
Performers: Lindo, Sharon; Spring, Matthew; Stowe, Sara

The finest songs from Shakespeare's plays, from Johnson's arrangement of 'Where the bee sucks' in 'The Tempest' to Morley's famous version of Feste's song, 'O...continue...

Elizabeth's Music / Baltimore Consort, et al

1 CD / Sono Luminus / 1999-02-04

Works: Anonymous, English: The Queen's Treble; O Mistresse Mine; William Byrd: My Lord of Oxenford's Mask (From Thomas Morley's "The First Booke of Consort Lessons"); Work(s); Matthew Holmes: Robin is to th...
Performers: Baird, Julianne; McFarlane, Ronn [Lute]; Tilney, Colin; Urrey, Frederick
Conductors:
Ensemble: Baltimore Consort; Toronto Consort

This wide-ranging collection of dances and ballads from the time of Queen Elizabeth I features some of Dorian's best-loved artists. The daughter of music-loving Henry...continue...

Sing We Noel / Joël Cohen, Boston Camerata

1 CD / / 1997-09-11

Works: Christmas Traditional: Nowel; Ad cantus leticie, conductus (12th c., English); Angelus ad virginem (English); Synge We to Thys Mery Cumpane, carol (English); Gabriel fram evene king sewnt (Angelus ad...
Performers: Armstrong, Nancy; Baker, Mark; Boston Camerata; Cohen, Joel [Early Music]; Fithian, Bruce; Hallmark, Rufus; Jeppesen, Laura; Klebanow, Susan; Linfield, Nicholas; Roth, Kenneth; Stevens, Charles Robert
Conductors: Cohen, Joel [Early Music]
Ensemble: Boston Camerata

This selection includes two spoken word tracks in which Nicholas Linfield reads the texts "Iesu Sweete Sone Dere (14th cent. English)" and " Make We Mere As We May (16th cent. English)."

These ...continue...

English Folksongs & Lute Songs / Andreas Scholl

1 CD / Harmonia Mundi / 1996-08-01

Works: John Dowland: Third and Last Booke of Songes; First Book of Songs or Ayres; The Lady Russells Paven, P 17; Second Book of Songs or Ayres; Lachrimae or Seaven Teares; Second Booke of Songes; Say love ...
Performers: Martin, Andreas [Lute]; Scholl, Andreas

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
Conductors:
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...

Ronn McFarlane - The Renaissance Lute

1 CD / Sono Luminus / 1990-02-02

Works: Anonymous: Branle; Branle Gay; Haullberroys; Bei Sankt Jakob vergibt man Pein und Schuld; Galliard; Und were er nit erstanden; Der Hoff dantz; Elslein, lieb(st)es Elselien in 4 versions; Adrian Le Ro...
Performers: McFarlane, Ronn [Lute]

On this recording, Ronn McFarlane has brought together a collection of pieces that capture some of the variety and range of styles of the Renaissance...continue...