Ford, Thomas [Poet]

Signum Classics Anniversary Series The Early Music Collection / Cordaria; The Clerks Group; Gabrieli Consort & Players; King's Singers; Voces8 et al.

1 CD / Signum UK / 2012-10-06

Works: Claudio Monteverdi: Vespers of the Blessed Virgin; Cantate Domino; Gregorio Strozzi: Mascara sonata e ballata da piú Cavalieri Napolitani nel Regio Palazzo, for organ; Antonio Vivaldi: Sonata no...
Performers: Carolan, Lucy [Harpsichord]; Devine, Steven; Hennessy, Gail; Kenedy, David; Kenny, Elizabeth [Theorbo]; Lyons, William; Murphy, Emma; Parle, Nicholas; Perillo, Linda; Reiter, Walter
Conductors: Howarth, Robert; Ng, Kah-Ming; ; Short, Nigel; Thorby, Philip; McCreesh, Paul; Wickham, Edward; Dixon, Alistair; Webber, Geoffrey
Ensemble: ; Chapelle du Roi (Chorus); Charivari Agréable; Cordaria; Gabrieli Players; Gallicantus; Mille Fleurs; Musica Antiqua; Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment; Shakespeare's Globe Theatre Compan...

2012 marks the 15th anniversary of the first release from the leading independent classical label Signum Records. Beginning life as an early music specialist (with...continue...

Organs of Famous Cathedrals - works by Bach, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Wesley et al. / David Goode, Joseph Nolan, Simon Preston, Jeremy Filsell

1 CD / Signum UK / 2012-10-06

Works: Claudio Monteverdi: Vespers of the Blessed Virgin; Cantate Domino; Gregorio Strozzi: Mascara sonata e ballata da piú Cavalieri Napolitani nel Regio Palazzo, for organ; Antonio Vivaldi: Sonata no...
Performers: Carolan, Lucy [Harpsichord]; Devine, Steven; Filsell, Jeremy [Keyboard]; Goode, David; Hennessy, Gail; Kenedy, David; Kenny, Elizabeth [Theorbo]; Lyons, William; Mason, Alexander; Matthes, Michael; M...
Conductors: Howarth, Robert; Ng, Kah-Ming; ; Short, Nigel; Thorby, Philip; McCreesh, Paul; Wickham, Edward; Dixon, Alistair; Webber, Geoffrey
Ensemble: ; Chapelle du Roi (Chorus); Charivari Agréable ; Cordaria; Gabrieli Players; Gallicantus; Mille Fleurs; Musica Antiqua; Shakespeare's Globe Theatre Company; Tenebrae (Vocal Ensemble); The Clerk...

2012 marks the 15th anniversary of the first release from the leading independent classical label Signum Records. Beginning life as an early music specialist (with...continue...

The Voice of Peter Pears - Dowland, Schubert, Britten, Grainger, Copland et al. / Peter Pears, tenor, Julian Bream, guitar; Benjamin Britten, piano

1 CD / Traditions Alive / 2012-10-06

Works: Thomas Ford: Faire Sweet Cruell for 4 voices & instruments; Philip Rosseter: What Then Is Love But Mourning; John Dowland: Second Book of Songs or Ayres; Third and Last Booke of Songes; Thomas Morley...
Performers: Bream, Julian [Guitar]; Britten, Benjamin; Pears, Peter, Sir

This Regis disc celebrates the uniqueness of one of the twentieth century's most distinctive voices in collaborations with life-long musical partners Benjamin Britten and Julian...continue...

English Song - works by Morley, Rosseter, Dowland, Pilkington, Bridge, Butterworth, Ireland, Warlock, et al. / Peter Pears, tenor; Julian Bream, guitar; Benjamin Britten, piano

1 CD / Traditions Alive / 2012-05-04

Works: Thomas Ford: Faire Sweet Cruell for 4 voices & instruments; Come, Phyllis; Philip Rosseter: When Laura Smiles; What Then Is Love But Mourning; Sweet, Come Again; What is a Day?; John Dowland: Second ...
Performers: Bream, Julian [Guitar]; Britten, Benjamin; Pears, Peter, Sir

Peter Pears' voice was undoubtedly one of the finest and most distinctive of the twentieth century and here he collaborates with Julian Bream and Benjamin...continue...

Music for a Viol: English Viol Music of the 17th Century

1 CD / Accent / 2011-05-01

Works: Christopher Simpson: Divisions on a Ground for 2 bass viols in C major; Divisions on a Ground in F major, for 2 violas da gamba; Divisions in E minor for solo bass viol & organ "Minuritiones septimae...
Performers: Kohnen, Robert; Kuijken, Wieland [Cello, Viola da Gamba]

Recording information: St. Stephanuskerk, Melsen, Belgium (05/1980)....continue...

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

Dialogues Of Sorrow: Passions On The Death Of Prince Henry (1612)

1 CD / Signum UK / 2010-08-27

Works: Robert Ramsey: When David Heard; What Tears, Dear Prince; How Are the Mighty Fallen; Sleep fleshly birth; Thomas Ford: 'Tis Now Dead Night, for vocal ensemble & lute; William Cranford: Weep, Weep, Br...
Performers: Chambers, Mark; Crouch, Gabriel; Kenny, Elizabeth [Theorbo]; Long, Matthew [Vocals]; Moore, Amy; Watson, Christopher; Wilkinson, Clare
Conductors: Crouch, Gabriel

In 1612, Prince Henry Frederick, son of James I and heir to the thrones of England and Scotland, died from a suspected bout of typhoid...continue...
Recording information: St Michael's Church, Summertown, Oxford, England (01/01/2010-01/04/2010)....continue...

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...

Love! Lust! Longing... Loss: An Elizabethan Romp

1 CD / CD Baby Independants / 2009-12-22

Works: John Dowland: Second Booke of Songes or Ayres; Say love if ever thou ditst find, D 58; Come Again; Second Booke of Songes; John Bartlet: When from My Love, lute song; Thomas Ford: There Is a Ladie, S...
Performers: Farnham, Garald; Good Pennyworths, The; Leisy, Matt; Lloyd, Erika; Marco, Alane

Personnel: Garald Farnham (lute).

Recording information: Fletcher Recital Hall, East Carolina Univeristy School (01/22/2009)....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

An Elizabethan Songbook: Campion, Holborne, Dowland, Pilkington, Morley, Johnson

1 CD / HBDirect Import / 2007-10-23

Works: Thomas Campion: Sing a Song of Joy for voice, lute & bass viol; Breake now my heart and dye, Oh, no, she may relent, for voice & bass viol; Wooe Her, and Win Her, He That Can for voice, lute & bass v...

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]; 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 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...

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...

The Danish Guitar Duo

1 CD / Point Classics / 2005-04-15

Works: Isaac Albéniz: Cantos de Espagna, Op. 232; España, 6 Feuilles d'album, Op. 165; Suite española no 1, for piano, Op. 47, B. 7; Astor Piazzolla: Lo que vendra; Domenico Scarlatti: Sona...
Performers: Madsen, Soren Bodker; Skott, Morten
Conductors:
Ensemble: Den Danske Guitarduo

Henry VIII and his Six Wives / Munrow, Early Music Consort

1 CD / Testament / 2004-04-01

Works: Thoinot Arbeau: Jouissance Vous Donneray; Claude Gervaise: Pavane "Le Bon Vouloir"; Gaillarde; Gaillarde (Quart Livre de Danceries); Pierre Phalèse: La traditore my fa morire; David Munrow: Henr...
Conductors: Munrow, David
Ensemble: Early Music Consort of London

Guitar Dreams - Classics for a New Age

1 CD / RCA Records / 1996-09-17

Works: Claude Debussy: Poèmes (7) de Banville; Petite suite for Piano 4 hands; Clair de lune (Suite bergamasque); Isaac Albéniz: Cantos de Espagna, Op. 232; Johann Sebastian Bach: Brandenburg Co...
Performers: Amsterdam Guitar Trio; Bream, Julian [Guitar]; Dorrestein, Johan; Franssen, Olga; Monden, Godelieve; Rijke, Helenus de; Williams, John [Guitar]; Yamashita, Kazuhito; Yamashita, Naoko; Yepes, Narciso ...

Ave Verum - Favorite Parish Anthems / Brown, Clare College

1 CD / Guild / 1995-08-01

Works: Adrian Batten: O praise the Lord; Richard Farrant: Lord, for Thy Tender Mercys Sake for chorus; Hide Not Thou Thy Face for chorus; John Mundy: O Lord the Maker; Thomas Ford: Almighty God who hast me ...
Performers: Morris, Ruth; Shepard, Alex
Conductors: Brown, Timothy
Ensemble: Clare College Choir

The Sypres Curten of the Night / M Chance, C Wilson

1 CD / Chandos Records / 1993-04-01

Works: Thomas Campion: Never weather-beaten saile more willing bent to shore; Author of light, revive my dying spright; The sypres curten of the night is spread; Thomas Ford: Since First I Saw Your Face, so...
Performers: Chance, Michael; Wilson, Christopher [Lute]