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O Sweet Woods: Irish And Scottish Airs by Dowland and Burns / Munro

1 CD / ATMA / 2013-02-26

Works: Scottish Traditional: Work(s); Leezie Lindsay, song; The Dewey Dells of Yarrow; Matt Highland; Bonny Barbry O, song; Ye Banks and Braes O' Bonnie Doon, folk song; Robert Burns: Craigieburn Wood; Scot...
Performers: Hall, Meredith; Slattery, Michael [Tenor Vocal]; White, Matthew [Countertenor Vocal]
Conductors:
Ensemble: La Nef; Skye Consort

The Scottish and Irish airs and instrumental pieces chosen for this delightful new sampler were selected from previous popular ATMA recordings. Michael Slattery sings John...continue...
Includes lament for the death of his second wife (gow) / th by various composers....continue...

Dowland: Tunes of Sad Despaire - a collection of songs / Dominique Visse, countertenor; Renaud Delaigue, bass; Eric Bellocq: lute, orpharion

1 CD / Satirino / 2013-02-12

Works: John Dowland: Firste Booke of Songes; Second Booke of Songes; What if a day, ballad setting for lute, P 79 (possibly spurious); Second Booke of Songes or Ayres; A Pilgrimes Solace; Lachrimae or Seave...
Performers: Bellocq, Eric; Delaigue, Renaud; Visse, Dominique [Countertenor Vocal]
Conductors:
Ensemble: Fretwork

This recording fulfills one of Dominique Visse's life ambitions, which dates from the late 1970s and the period during which he studied and worked with...continue...

Blisseful Kisses: Songs and Lute music by John Dowland / Fortune's Musicke

1 CD / Musicaphon / 2013-01-07

Works: John Dowland: Come Again; Second Booke of Songes; The Frog Galliard, for lute, P 23; Firste Booke of Songes; A Fancy (73); It was a time when silly bees could speak, for 4 voices & lute (Third Book o...
Performers: Peuker, Susanne
Conductors:
Ensemble: Fortune's Musicke

A morning after a romantic night of passion. Half-empty glasses on the table. A few rays of sunlight peek through the white curtains and gradually...continue...
Recording information: Kirche St. Nikolai Bremen-Mahndorf (08/17/2011-08/18/2011)....continue...

John Dowland: Sorrow Stay

1 CD / ABC Classics Import / 2012-10-09

Works: John Dowland: Second Booke of Songes; Lady if you so spite me, for voice, lute & bass viol (A Musical Banquet); Firste Booke of Songes; Second Book of Songs or Ayres; A Pilgrimes Solace; Sweet stay a...
Performers: Burwood, Justin; Hodgson, Rosemary

International Record Review, December 2012
Far from wearying the listener with a surfeit of sorrow, this is a very successful recital. It demonstrates nicely the other...continue...
Recording information: St Fidelis' Catholic Church, Coburg, Melbourne, Austral (2011-01-05_2011-01-07&2011-)....continue...

Ye Sacred Muses - works by Byrd, Dowland, Rosseter, Coprario et al. / Jean-Michel Fumas, countertenor; Eliza Consort

1 CD / Ameson / 2012-07-10

Works: William Byrd: The man is blest, sacred song for voice & 4 viols; Ye sacred muses "Elegy for Thomas Tallis"; Fair Britain isle, song for voice & 4 viols; Rejoice unto the Lord; Fantasia a 4, for instr...
Performers: Fumas, Jean-Michel
Conductors:
Ensemble: Eliza Consort

This new recording features Jean-Michel Fumas' warm, radiant voice accompanied by Thomas Dunford on Renaissance lute. The magnificent program of Elizabethan ballads, songs, and elegies...continue...
Recording information: Temple Saint-Pierre, Paris (09/06/2011-09/09/2011)....continue...

John Dowland: Lute Songs / Alfred Deller, coutnertenor; Robert Spencer, lute

2 CD / Harmonia Mundi / 2012-07-10

Works: John Dowland: Lachrimae or Seaven Teares; John Dowland's Galliard, P 21; Lady Laiton's Almain, P 48; Fortune My Foe, song arranged for lute, P 62; The Frog Galliard, for lute, P 23; Third and Last Bo...
Performers: Deller, Alfred; North, Nigel [Lute]; Spencer, Robert [Lute]
Conductors:
Ensemble: Consort of Six

Another timely reissue for his centenary, Alfred Deller's Dowland has become part of our history. The most legendary of English countertenors distilled the very essence...continue...
Recording information: Deller Recordings (09/1977)....continue...

Requiem for a Pink Moon: An Elizabethan Tribute to Nick Drake

1 CD / Harmonia Mundi / 2012-05-08

Works: Nick Drake: Road; Pink Moon; Horn; Place to be; Which Will; Rider on the Wheel; Time Has Told Me; Hanging on a Star; Voice from the Mountain; Northern Sky; Harvest Breed; From the Morning; Joel Frede...
Performers: Frederiksen, Joel
Conductors:
Ensemble: Ensemble Phoenix Munich

Following the success of his 2011 album Rose of Sharon - a celebration of 18th Century American music that landed on Billboard's classical chart and...continue...
Recording information: Alter Reitstadel, Neumarkt (Oberpfalz) (03/2011).

Ever since critics began to place "She's Leaving Home" and some of the other more elaborate Beatles songs within the cla...continue...

My First Lullaby Album / Halasz - Slovak PO

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2012-03-27

Works: Johannes Brahms: Songs (5) for voice & piano, Op. 49; Felix Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 61; Song Without Words for piano no 36 in E major, Op. 67/6; Arnold Bax: Lullaby, for piano; Ig...
Performers: Biret, Idil; Gens, Veronique; Jando, Jeno; Linell, Dorothy; Nagy, Peter [Piano]; Rickards, Steven; Steen-Nokleberg, Einar; Thiollier, Francois-Joel [Piano]; Veselka, Stefan; Wass, Ashley
Conductors: Breiner, Peter; Bramall, Anthony; Rahbari, Alexander; Clark, Keith; Judd, James; Casadesus, Jean-Claude

For centuries, babies and children all over the world have been rocked to sleep with a song to calm them. Whether parents sing or play,...continue...

Dowland in Dublin / Michael Slattery, tenor; La Nef

1 CD / ATMA / 2012-01-31

Works: John Dowland: Firste Booke of Songes; Third and Last Booke of Songes; Second Booke of Songes or Ayres; Say love if ever thou ditst find, D 58; Come Again; Lachrimae Pavan, for keyboard or lute (from ...
Performers: Bergeron, Sylvain; Slattery, Michael [Tenor Vocal]
Conductors:
Ensemble: La Nef

"To my loving countryman, Mr. John Forster the younger, merchant of Dublin, in Ireland." - In thus dedicating the song 'From Silent Night' in his...continue...
Recording information: Église Saint-Augustin, Mirabel, Québec, Canada (09/2010)....continue...

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

Just Songs! / Popular songs - Die Singphoniker

1 CD / Oehms / 2011-10-25

Works: Kurt Weill: Wouldn't You Like to Be on Broadway?, song for voice & piano (from "Street Scene"); September Song, song for voice & piano (from "Knickerbocker Holiday"); John Dowland: Second Booke of So...
Conductors:
Ensemble: Die Singphoniker

"...just songs!" is the title of the Singphoniker's newest concept album. This top German vocal ensemble presents an enticing, brilliant and completely conclusive musical still-life....continue...
Recording information: Studio 1, Bayerischer Albrecht (01/29/2011-01/30/2011); Studio 1, Bayerischer Albrecht (11/19/2010-11/20/2010)....continue...

The Voice, Vol. 2 / Andreas Scholl: The Art of Folksong & Baroque Cantatas

2 CD / Harmonia Mundi / 2011-08-09

Works: Oswald von Wolkenstein: Ach senliches leiden; Nu rue mit Sorgen; Kum, liebster Man; John Dowland: Third and Last Booke of Songes; First Book of Songs or Ayres; Second Book of Songs or Ayres; Can she...
Performers: Guilmette, Helene; Markl, Markus; Scholl, Andreas
Conductors: Young, Crawford; ; Dantone, Ottavio; Herreweghe, Philippe
Ensemble: ; Accademia Bizantina; Concerto di Viole; Shield of Harmony

Consort Music & Airs for Flute - Holborne, Dowland, Scheidt, etc / Martin, Sempe, Capriccio Stravagante

1 CD / Paradizo / 2011-05-01

Works: Antony Holborne: Work(s); Pavans, Galliards, Almaines (65); Galliard; Heigh-ho holyday; John Dowland: Work(s); Firste Booke of Songes; Lachrimae or Seaven Teares; Jacob van Eyck: Work(s); Samuel Sche...
Performers: Cheatham, Joshua; Martin, Julien; Sempe, Skip
Conductors: Sempe, Skip
Ensemble: Capriccio Stravagante

Capriccio Stravagante and Skip Sempe perform an irresistible selection of well and lesser-known Airs, Pavans, Galliards, and Masque dances by key composers of the Renaissance....continue...

Kurofune: Songs from the Black Ships

1 CD / Carpe Diem / 2011-03-29

Works: Anonymous, Cancionero de Palacio: O Gloriosa Domina; Luys de Narváez: Paseávase el rey moro; Miguel de Fuenllana: Si los delfines, for voice & vihuela; Toyohiko Satoh: Sendo no Yamma, for v...
Performers: Barber, Stephen; Ooijen, David van; Satoh, Toyohiko; Yamada, Chiyomi

Kurofune is a musical journey into the 16th and 17th centuries between Europe and Japan. Japanese soprano Chiyomi Yamada, accompanied by lutenists Toyohiko Satoh and...continue...
Recording information: St.-Katharinen Church, Schönemoor, Germany (03/2010)....continue...

The Renaissance Album

1 CD / Pilfink Records / 2011-03-08

Works: Philip Rosseter: Prelude, for lute; Though Far from Joy, for voice & lute; What Then Is Love But Mourning; A Fantasia, for lute (Jane Pickeringe's Lute Book, 37); John Dowland: Firste Booke of Songes...
Performers: Malinen, Janne [Guitar]; Tritschler, Robin

Tenor Robin Tritschler and guitarist Janne Malinen offer a program of lute songs and solos from the English Renaissance. Texts of the songs are included....continue...

Songs Of An English Cavalier

1 CD / New Classical Adventure / 2011-01-25

Works: John Dowland: Second Booke of Songes or Ayres; Third and Last Booke of Songes; Fortune My Foe, song arranged for lute, P 62; Lachrimae or Seaven Teares; Can she excuse, P 42; A Pilgrimes Solace; Were...
Performers: Rensburg, Kobie van
Conductors: Katschner, Wolfgang
Ensemble: Lautten Compagney

Recording information: Bad Lauchstädt, Kursaal (02/27/2001-03/02/2001)....continue...

Now What Is Love? Aspects of Love in the 17th Century

1 CD / Saydisc / 2011-01-11

Works: Robert Jones: Now What Is Love; Luigi Rossi: Guardatevi olà nemica io sono, for voice & continuo; Anonymous, Italian: Occhi belli, song; Alessandro Piccinini: Toccata no 1 (from Intavolatura di ...
Performers: Mason, Barry [Guitar/Lute]; Simpson, Glenda

Recording information: Valley Recordings, Littleton-on-Severn, England (04/1990)....continue...

John Dowland's Lachrimae or Seaven Teares / Carolin Trevor, Jacob Herringman, Rose Consort of Viols

1 CD / Saydisc / 2011-01-11

Works: John Dowland: Lachrimae or Seaven Teares; Firste Booke of Songes; Lachrimae antiquae novae, for 5 viols/violins & lute (from "Lachrimae"); Second Booke of Songes; Lachrimae gementes, for 5 viols/viol...
Conductors:
Ensemble: Rose Consort of Viols

Recording information: Forde Abbey, Chard, Dorset, England (10/1991)....continue...

Remembrance of Things Past

1 CD / Guild / 2010-09-14

Works: John Dowland: Preludium, P 98; Firste Booke of Songes; Second Booke of Songes; Say love if ever thou ditst find, D 58; Third and Last Booke of Songes; Second Booke of Songes or Ayres; Lachrimae or Se...
Performers: Bothe, Theresia; Croton, Peter; Ragin, Derek Lee

Theresia Bothe and Peter Croton have been performing together since 2003. They are joined on this recording of songs by John Dowland by counterenor Derek...continue...
Recording information: Basel City Studios, Switzerland (05/19/2009-05/21/2009)....continue...

Tudor Age Music

1 CD / Griffin Records / 2010-06-08

Works: English Traditional: All in a garden green, folk song; Horses Brawle; Thomas Morley: Sing wee and chaunt it, madrigal for 5 voices; Aprill is in my mistris face, madrigal for 4 voices; Orlando Gibbon...

24 Ways Upon the Bells

1 CD / Naïve / 2010-04-27

Works: Christian Rivet: L'heure. Scotch Cap (after John Playford), for guitar; Le quart. Scots Rant (after John Playford), for guitar; I can not Keepe my Wife at Home (after John Playford), for lute; Light ...
Performers: Rivet, Christian

Recording information: Musée de la musique, Cité de la musique, Paris, France....continue...

Honey from the Hive - Dowland: Songs / Kirkby, Rooley

1 Super Audio CD / BIS (Sweden) Import / 2010-03-23

Works: John Dowland: Can she excuse (The Right Honourable Robert, Earl of Essex, his Galliard), galliard for lute, P 42; O sweet woods, the delight of solitariness, for 4 voices & lute (Second Book of Songs...
Performers: Kirkby, Emma; Rooley, Anthony [Lute]

Import Hybrid-SACD pressing....continue...

Amor Vincit

1 Super Audio CD / Aliud / 2010-02-16

Works: American Traditional: Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair, folk song; Giulio Caccini: Tu ch' hai le penne, amore, for voice & continuo; Robert Jones: What if I sped?; Claudio Monteverdi: Lascia...
Performers: Koene, Anne
Conductors:
Ensemble: Musica Del Cuore

Dowland: Clear Or Cloudy - Lute Songs

1 CD / Musica Ficta / 2010-01-02

Works: John Dowland: A Pilgrimes Solace; Say love if ever thou ditst find, D 58; Lachrimae or Seaven Teares; Come Again; Mrs. Winters Jump, for lute, P 55; Can she excuse, P 42; Second Booke of Songes; Mr D...
Performers: Mignaco, Valeria [Soprano]

At the end of the 15th century, the Italians developed a way of rendering polyphony on the lute, plucking with the fingers instead of with...continue...
Recording information: Église Saint-Remy de Franc-Waret (Belgique) (05/13/2008-05/16/2008)....continue...

Songs for Ariel / James Bowman, Kenneth Weiss

1 CD / Satirino / 2009-09-01

Works: Anonymous, English: Salve Regina; John Dowland: Firste Booke of Songes; Henry Purcell: King Arthur, or The British Worthy, Z 628; Welcome to all the pleasures, Z 339 "Ode for St Cecilia's Day"; Don Q...
Performers: Bowman, James [Countertenor Vocal]; Ducornet, Marc; Weiss, Kenneth

"Far from a retrospective recording, however, Songs for Ariel is a vibrant performance that amply demonstrates the continuing vitality and beauty of Bowman's voice." -...continue...

Dowland: Lute Songs; Campion, Danyel, Rosseter / James Bowman, Robert Spencer

1 CD / Musical Concepts / 2009-06-30

Works: John Dowland: Come Again; Firste Booke of Songes; Can she excuse, P 42; Awake sweet love, P 92; Second Booke of Songes; Second Booke of Songes or Ayres; Lachrimae, pavan for lute (music by Dowland po...
Performers: Bowman, James [Countertenor Vocal]; Spencer, Robert [Lute]

"This admirable record contains songs from all three "Bookes" (& more)... The lute solos are played in exemplary fashion by Robert Spencer. A fine single-disc...continue...

The Queen - Music for Elizabeth 1 / Toronto Consort

1 CD / Marquis Classic / 2009-05-19

Works: Thomas Tomkins: See, See the Shepheards' Queene for 5 voices (madrigal); John Dowland: Can she excuse, P 42; Say love if ever thou ditst find, D 58; Firste Booke of Songes; Anonymous, English: Brave ...
Performers: Deboer, Michele; Fallis, David; Hill, Katherine; Jenkins, Paul; Melville, Alison; Pepper, John; Pudwell, Laura; Terry McKenna [Lute/Guitar]
Conductors:
Ensemble: Toronto Consort

With their usual charm and passion, the Toronto Consort recreates musical life at the court of Elizabeth I. Many of these songs were written for...continue...
Includes time stands still (dowland) / lady frances sidneys by various composers....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...

Alfred Deller Vol 4 - Music of Handel & Bach - The English Renaissance

6 CD / Musical Concepts / 2009-03-10

Works: George Frederick Handel: Jephtha; MEDLEY; Orlando; L'Allegro il Penseroso ed il Moderato; Rinaldo; Theodora; Coronation Anthems (4); Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne, HWV 74; Alexander's Feast, HWV...
Performers: Bevan, Maurice; Brown, Wilfred; Deller, Alfred; Deller, Mark; Dupre, Desmond; English, Gerald; Frost, John; Leonhardt, Gustav; Lester, Harold; McLoughlin, Eileen; Poulter, Eileen; Rudolf, Richard; Sh...
Conductors: Lewis, Anthony; Deller, Alfred; Leonhardt, Gustav;
Ensemble: ; Deller Consort; Ensemble of Baroque Instruments; Leonhardt Baroque Ensemble; Schola Cantorum Basiliensis Wenzinger Consort of V

This is Volume 4 in a series of 6 special Multi-CD sets of the Complete Vanguard Recordings of Alfred Deller. The Deller Consort, Gustav Leonhardt...continue...

Dowland: In Darkness Let Me Dwell

1 CD / Deutsche Harmonia Mundi Import / 2008-09-23

Works: John Dowland: Forlorn Hope Fancy; Lachrimae or Seaven Teares; Earl of Essex, his Galliard, P 42a; A Pilgrimes Solace; Lachrimae antiquae novae, for 5 viols/violins & lute (from "Lachrimae"); Third an...
Performers: Perl, Hille

Personnel: Dorothee Mields, Lee Santana ....continue...

In Darkness Let Me Dwell

1 CD / Deutsche Harmonia Mundi Import / 2008-09-23

Works: John Dowland: Forlorn Hope Fancy; Lachrimae or Seaven Teares; Earl of Essex, his Galliard, for lute, P 89; A Pilgrimes Solace; Lachrimae antiquae novae, for 5 viols/violins & lute (from "Lachrimae");...
Performers: Mields, Dorothee; Perl, Hille; Santana, Lee
Conductors:
Ensemble: Sirius Viols

Gramophone Magazine
Mields's slight accent aside, the songs are a pleasure to listen to: the voice - full yet light and with just a hint of...continue...
Recording information: St. Georgskirche, Sengwarden, Germany (11/19/2007-11/21/2007)....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...

Original Masters - Julian Bream plays Dowland & Bach

2 CD / Deutsche Grammophon / 2008-07-08

Works: John Dowland: Queene Elizabeth, her Galliard, P 41; Lachrimae or Seaven Teares; Mrs Whittes Nothing, P 56; Mrs Vaux Galliard, P 32; Farewell; Orlando sleepeth, P 61; A Fancy; King of Denmark, his Gal...
Performers: Bream, Julian [Guitar]; Litschauer, Frieda

Julian Bream is one of the greatest masters of the guitar, admired for the intensity of his playing and the beauty of his tone. His...continue...

Leo, Purcell, Kozeluch, etc: Arias / Rapson, Davidson, et al

1 CD / Metronome / 2008-07-08

Works: Hildegard von Bingen: Ave generosa; Leonardo Leo: Salve Regina in F major; Francesco Mancini: Quanto dolce è quell' ardore, cantata for soprano, oboe & continuo; Johann Sebastian Bach: Easter Or...
Performers: Bircher, Katy; Davidson, Grace; Hennessey, Gail; Miller, David [Lute/Baroque Guitar]; Morsches, Jennifer; Rapson, Penelope
Conductors: Rapson, Penelope
Ensemble: Fiori Musicali (England)

Elizabethan Love Songs - Dowland, Rosseter, etc / Hugues Cuenod, Claude Jean Chiasson

1 CD / Lyrichord / 2008-06-17

Works: Philip Rosseter: When Laura Smiles; John Bull: Italian Galliard; Robert Jones: Go to bed, sweet muse; Sweet Kate; Robert Johnson: Alman for lute; Orlando Gibbons: Pavane and Galliard "Lord Salisbury"...
Performers: Brink, Robert; Chiasson, Claude Jean; Cuenod, Hugues; Pinkham, Daniel [Organ]; Zighera, Alfred

Crystal Tears - Dowland, Ward, Byrd, Johnson, etc / Scholl, Behr, Concerto di Viole

2 CD / Harmonia Mundi / 2008-06-10

Works: John Dowland: Firste Booke of Songes; A Pilgrimes Solace; Second Booke of Songes; Lachrimae or Seaven Teares; Lady Rich, her Galliard, P 43; Work(s); Third and Last Booke of Songes; John Ward: Fantas...
Performers: Scholl, Andreas
Conductors:
Ensemble: Concerto di Viole

"As impressive as he is in such repertoire as the virtuoso arias of Vivaldi and Handel, it's in these lute and consort songs (and elsewhere...continue...

Dowland: Ayres / Gérard Lesne, Ensemble Orlando Gibbons

1 CD / Naïve / 2008-05-27

Works: John Dowland: Can she excuse, P 42; If that a sinner's sighs be angel's food, sacred song for 4 voices & lute (A Pilgrimes Solace); A Pilgrimes Solace; Come Again; Lachrimae or Seaven Teares; Firste ...
Conductors:
Ensemble: Orlando Gibbons Viol Ensemble

Mercurial Love - Dowland, Purcell / Jama Jandrokovic, Charles Weaver, et al

1 CD / MSR Classics / 2008-04-01

Works: John Dowland: Come Again; Preludium, P 98; Third and Last Booke of Songes; Firste Booke of Songes; A Fancy; Second Booke of Songes; Can she excuse, P 42; Henry Purcell: A New Ground for Harpsichord i...
Performers: Jandrokovic, JAma; Stober, Carlene; Vinikour, Jory; Weaver, Charles

England in the 17th century boasted not only a musically sophisticated aristocracy but also a middle-class who were well acquainted with both poetry and music....continue...

Pociones

1 CD / CD Baby Independants / 2008-03-11

Works: Manuel de Falla: Canciones populares españolas (7); Tus ojillos negros; John Dowland: Firste Booke of Songes; Biagio Marini: Donna che loda il canto di bellisimo Giovanetto, chanson; Henry Purce...
Performers: Sandoval, Salome

Dowland: Lute Songs; Britten / Padmore, Kenny, Ogden

1 CD / Hyperion / 2008-01-08

Works: John Dowland: Firste Booke of Songes; Say love if ever thou ditst find, D 58; Second Booke of Songes; Fantasia, for lute (from "A Varietie of Lute-lessons"); Come Again; Lachrimae or Seaven Teares; I...
Performers: Kenny, Elizabeth [Theorbo]; Ogden, Craig [Guitar]; Padmore, Mark [Tenor Vocals]

Mark Padmore is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest tenors performing today, celebrated for his work on the operatic stage, in recital, and in...continue...

Dowland: Lute Songs & Ayres / Hurst, Cohen

1 CD / Centaur / 2008-01-01

Works: John Dowland: Can she excuse, P 42; Second Booke of Songes; Say love if ever thou ditst find, D 58; Third and Last Booke of Songes; Firste Booke of Songes; Come Again; My thoughts are winged with hop...
Performers: Cohen, Benny; Hurst, Kristine

Soprano Kristine Hurst debuted with the Boulder Bach Festival in 2004, and her repertoire includes rarely performed cantatas of Handel and Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la...continue...

Dowland - Songs of Tears, Dreams and Spirits

3 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2007-09-25

Works: John Dowland: Come Again; Lachrimae or Seaven Teares; Lady if you so spite me, for voice, lute & bass viol (A Musical Banquet); In darkness let mee dwell; Melancholy Galliard; Say love if ever thou d...
Performers: Linell, Dorothy; North, Nigel [Lute]; Richards, Steven

"My colleague David Vernier rightly praised Nigel North's unhurried, sensitively inflected John Dowland interpretations... North's scholarly, extremely readable annotations and Naxos' roomy yet detail...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]; Miller, David [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...

The John Dowland Collection

2 CD / Deutsche Grammophon / 2007-04-10

Works: John Dowland: Lachrimae or Seaven Teares; Firste Booke of Songes; Can she excuse, P 42; My Lady Hunsdon's Allemande, Dowland; A piece without title; The Shoemaker's Wife, a Toy, for lute, P 58; Lachr...
Performers: Binkley, Thomas; Bonney, Barbara; Burgess, Grayston; Heringman, Jacob [Lute]; Karamazov, Edin; Kirkby, Emma; Klein, Karl Heinz; Lindberg, Jakob; Ramm, Andrea von; Rooley, Anthony [Lute]; Söllsch...
Conductors: ; Binkley, Thomas
Ensemble: Consort of Musicke; Studio der frühen Musik

Over 21/2 of glorious music featuring Barbara Bonney, Anne Sofie von Otter, Nigel Rogers, Andreas Scholl, Göran Söllscher and The Consort of Musicke. The music...continue...

Heavenly Love, Earthly Joy / Bream, Pears

1 CD / RCA Records / 2007-01-16

Works: Thomas Morley: Absence, hear thou my protestation, song for voice with lute & bass viol; First Booke of Ayres; Who is it that this darke night, song for voice with lute & bass viol; Philip Rosseter: ...
Performers: Bream, Julian [Guitar]; Pears, Peter, Sir

"This reissue of two concert performances--from London's Wigmore Hall in 1963 and Conway Hall in 1969--makes delightful and frequently very compelling listening, given the superlative...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...

Songs from the Labyrinth

1 CD / Deutsche Grammophon / 2006-10-10

Works: John Dowland: Walsingham, song arranged for lute, P 67; Can she excuse, P 42; Letters (correspondence with family and friends); Lachrimae or Seaven Teares; King of Denmark, his Galliard, P 40; Third ...
Performers: Karamazov, Edin; Sting

This autumn Sting ventures into "new" musical territory with an album featuring the music of acclaimed Elizabethan songwriter, John Dowland (1563-1626). Sting is joined on...continue...
Personnel: Sting (vocals, archlute); Edin Karamazov (lute, archlute).

Recording information: metropolis Studios, London, England; Steerpike Studios, II Palagio, Italy.

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Transfiguration

1 CD / CD Baby Independants / 2006-07-04

Works: Samuel Adler: Into the Radiant Boundaries of Light, for viola & guitar; Henry Purcell: Work(s); Victor Kioulaphides: Suite, for viola & guitar; John Dowland: Firste Booke of Songes; Think'st thou the...
Performers: Deubner, Brett [Viola]; Kenniff, Christopher

Dolci miei sospiri - Dowland, D'India, et al / Hirsch, et al

1 CD / Arts / 2006-07-01

Works: Claudio Monteverdi: Dolci miei sospiri; Scherzi musicali, volume 1; Selva morale e spirituale, mass & motets, SV 252-288; Girolamo Frescobaldi: Arie musicali Bk.1 no 10, Entro nave dorata, aria for s...
Performers: Hirsch, Hans-Ludwig; Hoffmann, Hubert; Matteuzzi, William
Conductors: Hirsch, Hans-Ludwig

Although their concentration was on ancient theatre musical recitation, the Florentine intellectuals and musicians from the end of the 16th and the beginning of the...continue...

Songs for Tenor & Guitar / Langridge, Marchionda

1 CD / Chandos Records / 2005-05-24

Works: John Dowland: Firste Booke of Songes; Third and Last Booke of Songes; Benjamin Britten: Nocturnal after John Dowland, for guitar, Op. 70; Songs from the Chinese, song cycle for high voice & guitar, O...
Performers: Langridge, Philip; Marchionda, Stephen

Following hot on the heels of his extraordinary performance as Aschenbach in Chandos' 'Death in Venice', Philip Langridge brings his rare musical and dramatic abilities...continue...