Renaissance Period > Wadsworth, Matthew

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...

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

Johnson: Away Delights / Sampson, Wadsworth

1 CD / Avie Records / 2009-04-01

Works: Robert Johnson: Fantasia for lute (from Lord Herbert of Cherbury's Lute Book); The gipsies' dance, for lute (from Margartet Board Lute Book); As I walked forth; Where the bee sucks; Gallyard for lute...
Performers: Sampson, Carolyn; Wadsworth, Matthew

Rosseter: When Laura Smiles / Wadsworth, Gilchrist

1 CD / Avie Records / 2009-04-01

Works: Philip Rosseter: Sweet, Come Again; And Would You See My Mistress' Face, for voice & lute; A Fantasia, for lute (Jane Pickeringe's Lute Book, 37); No Grave for Woe; Reprove Not Love, for voice & lute...
Performers: Gilchrist, James [Tenor Vocal]; Wadsworth, Matthew

Presented here is the first ever recording devoted entirely to Philip Rosseter's music, and it is a timely tribute to one of the great masters...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...

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...