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With Endless Teares - Johnson, Lawes, Humphrey, Purcell [Hybrid SACD]

1 Super Audio CD / Channel Classics / 2009-11-10

Works: Robert Johnson: Have you seen but a white lily grow?; Woods, rocks and mountains; With endless tears, for voice, lute & continuo; Come hither you that love; Come heavy sleep, for treble voice and lut...
Performers: Jacobs, Fred [Theorbo]; Zomer, Johannette [Soprano Vocal]

Johannette Zomer and Fred Jacobs started recording a series of programs devoted to 17th Century monody for which their research has unveiled many hidden treasures....continue...
Recording information: Doopsgezinde Kerk, Deventer, The Netherlands (12/2008)....continue...

Super Artists on Super Audio Vol. 6

1 Super Audio CD / Channel Classics / 2009-10-13

Works: Georg Philipp Telemann: work(s); Johann Sebastian Bach: Jesu, meine Freude, BWV 227; Robert Schumann: Davidsbündlertänze, Op. 6; Franz Joseph Haydn: Quartet in E flat, Op. 64 no 6; Sonata i...
Performers: Beynon, Emily; Cooper, Gary [Keyboardist]; Crowe, Lucy; Fan, Jing Ma; Giacometti, Paolo; Halls, Matthew; Lazic, Dejan [Piano]; Mees, Reinild; Meijer, Lavinia; Podger, Rachel [Violin]; Van Rijen, Jorg...
Conductors: ; Dijkstra, Peter; Halls, Matthew; Fischer, Iván; Petrenko, Kirill; Hempel, Jurgen; Veldhoven, Jos van
Ensemble: ; Combattimento Consort Amsterdam; Florilegium (Ensemble, UK); Holland Baroque Society; Meridian Arts Ensemble; Netherlands Bach Society

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...

Super Artists on Super Audio Vol 4

1 Super Audio CD / Channel Classics / 2007-03-20

Works: Ludwig van Beethoven: Quartet for Strings no 16 in F major, Op. 135; Gioachino Rossini: Péchés de vieillesse, Book 8 (Album de château); Un regret, un espoir, for piano in E major...
Performers: Cooper, Gary [Keyboardist]; Giacometti, Paolo; Grimm, Anne; Mei, Yu Hong; Podger, Rachel [Violin]; Schneemann, Bart; Wadsworth, Matthew; Yan, Zhang; Zomer, Johannette [Soprano Vocal]
Conductors: Thompson, Candida; Fischer, Iván;
Ensemble: ; Florilegium Musicum Ensemble (Netherlands); Meridian Arts Ensemble; Netherlands Bach Society; Rombouts Quartet; Sfera Armoniosa

A new sampler means looking back to those recordings that have appeared since our last compilation. Every track represents a brief 'sample', not only of...continue...
Personnel: Matthew Wadsworth (lute); Zhang Hong Yan (pipa); Rachel Podger (violin); Yu Hong Mei (erhu)....continue...

Masters of the Lute / Matthew Wadsworth

1 Super Audio CD / Channel Classics / 2006-11-14

Works: John Dowland: Preludium, P 98; Forlorn Hope Fancy; Lachrimae Pavan, P 15; Galliard to Lachrimae, P 46; My Lord Willobes Wellcome Home, P 66; Earl of Essex, his Galliard, P 42a; Francis Cutting: Divis...
Performers: Wadsworth, Matthew

"Sitting pretty at the top of the classical charts as we go to press, one wonders how many new lute fans Sting's John Dowland album...continue...

Super Artists on Super Audio Vol 3

1 Super Audio CD / Channel Classics / 2005-09-13

Works: Anonymous: Allegro; Ludwig August Lebrun: Concerto for Oboe no 3 in D major; Sofia Gubaidulina: The Canticle of the Sun; George Frederick Handel: Suite in G minor; Mariano Mores: Taquito militar; Mau...
Performers: Brüggen, Daniel; Cooper, Gary; Daniels, Charles [Classical]; Driever, Bertho; Dufour, Marc; Escalera, Katia; Gerritsen, Elsbeth; Giacometti, Paolo; Goldstein, Marleene; Groot, Peter de; Jacobs, ...
Conductors: ; de Vriend, Jan Willem; Reuss, Daniel; Dijkstra, Peter; Veldhoven, Jos van; Herbers, Werner; Fischer, Iván
Ensemble: Budapest Festival Orchestra; Ebony Band; Florilegium Ensemble; Ghent Collegium Vocale; Loeki Stardust Quartet Amsterdam; Netherlands Bach Society Baroque Orchestra; Netherlands Bach Society Choir; Ra...

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Musickes Sweetest Joyes / Jacobs, Linden, et al

1 Super Audio CD / Channel Classics / 2004-10-12

Works: Christopher Simpson: Prelude in D (The Division-Viol, 1665); Divisions for viola da gamba & continuo in D; Prelude [in E] (The Dicision-Viol, 1665); Division on a Ground in E minor, for viola da gamb...
Performers: Jacobs, Fred [Theorbo]; Kooij, Peter; ter Linden, Jaap [Cello]; van der Velden, Mieneke; Zomer, Johannette [Soprano Vocal]

The gentle melancholy which underlies the sound of the viola da gamba made it the instrument par excellence in 17th century England. Sadness was the...continue...

Love & Lament - Carissimi, Monteverdi / Cappella Figuralis

1 CD / Channel Classics / 2002-05-01

Works: Claudio Monteverdi: Lamento della Ninfa (Canto Amoroso); Girolamo Frescobaldi: Toccata [Seconda] for keyboard in F major (Chigi MS Q IV 25; CEKM 30/1, no 7); Domenico Mazzocchi: Lamento di David for ...
Performers: Dirksen, Pieter; Fentross, Mike; Henstra, Siebe
Conductors: Veldhoven, Jos van
Ensemble: Capella Figuralis

"The performances by the singers and four continuo players (organ, harpsichord, violone, theorbo and cello) are perfect in every way." -ClassicsToday...continue...

Holborne: Image of Melancolly / Loeki Stardust Quartet

1 CD / Channel Classics / 1998-08-01

Works: Antony Holborne: Work(s); Muy Linda, for viol consort; Kees Boeke: Lacrime; John Dowland: Melancholy Galliard
Performers: Boeke, Kees; Satoh, Toyohiko
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Ensemble: Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet

Toyohiko Satoh - Scarlatti and Zamboni, Italian Lute Music

1 CD / Channel Classics / 1998-08-01

Works: Giovanni Zamboni: Sonata for lute no 9; Sonata for lute no 11a; Domenico Scarlatti: Sonata for Harpsichord in E major, K 380/L 23; Sonata for Harpsichord in G minor, K 30/L 499 "The Cat's Fugue"; Son...
Performers: Niessen, Michiel; Satoh, Toyohiko

Italian Lute Songs / Derek Lee Ragin, Peter Croton

1 CD / Channel Classics / 1997-08-31

Works: Sigismondo d'India: Crud'Amarilli (from "Libro Primo de Madrigali a Cinque Voci); Le musiche, book 1; Girolamo Frescobaldi: Arie musicali Bk.1 no 15, Se l'aura spira, in 3 sections for solo voice; Pr...
Performers: Croton, Peter; Ragin, Derek Lee