Lanier, Nicholas

All in a Garden Green: Four Seasons of English Music - Playford, Lawes, Byrd et al. / Ensemble Le Tendre Amour

1 CD / Brilliant Classics / 2012-04-24

Works: Anonymous, English: Chirping Of The Nightingale (from Playford); Now ye Spring Is Come, song (from Elizabeth Rogers Hir Virginall Booke); Thomas Baltzar: John come kiss me now; Nicola Matteis: Aria a...
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Ensemble: Le Tendre Amour

A delightful collection of 17th century songs constructed around the major influence of the 4 seasons, showcasing enthusiasm for amateur music making. During the Commonwealth...continue...
Recording information: St. Joan de Sanata Church, Llinars de Vallès, Catalunya (07/16/2011-07/19/2011)....continue...

The Musical Life of Samuel Pepys

1 CD / Saydisc / 2011-01-11

Works: Matthew Locke: Gavotte, for viol consort (from Drexel Ms.); Brawles; Pietro Reggio: Arise, ye subterranean Winds; Giacomo Carissimi: Lucifero, caelestis olim, motet for bass, soprano & continuo; Samu...
Performers: Compton, Jane; Harper, Celia; Jeffrey, Robin; Skeaping, Roderick; Thorp, William; Watkin, David; Wistreich, Richard [Bass Vocals]

Recording information: Valley Recordings (06/1989)....continue...

Stuart Age Music: Tunes from Troubled Times

1 CD / Griffin Records / 2010-06-08

Works: English Traditional: Work(s); When the King Enjoys His Own Again, folk song; Johney Cock Thy Beaver; The Witches (from Anne Cromwell's Virginal Book, 1638); I Serve a Worthy Lady, song; The Jolly Bar...
Performers: Banks, Jon [Harp]; Spring, Matthew; Stobart, Henry; Stowe, Sara
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Ensemble: Sirinu

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...

The Troubador & the Nun - Hildegard von Bingen, Dowland, etc / Tubb, et al

1 CD / EtCetera Records / 2009-09-01

Works: Giraut de Bornelh: Reis glorios, monophonic alba; Hildegard von Bingen: Ave generosa; O clarissima mater, response; O viridissima virga; Beatriz de Dia: A chantar m'er de so qu'en no volria, song; An...
Performers: Fields, Michael; Hatcher, David; Tubb, Evelyn [Soprano Vocals]

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...

Classical Kirkby - Orpheus & Corinna / Kirkby, et al

1 CD / BIS (Sweden) / 2002-10-09

Works: Henry Lawes: Legousin hai gunaikes, for voice & lute; Away, away, Anacreon, for voice & lute; Anacreon's Ode, call'd The Lute (Greek text), for voice & lute; Anacreon's Ode, call'd The Lute (English ...
Performers: Rooley, Anthony [Lute]

Music & Art in Renaissance Florence

1 CD / Metronome / 2001-07-30

Works: Anonymous: Come live with mee, and bee my love; So, so break off this last lamenting kisse; Goe and catch a fallinge star; Dearest love I doe not goe; William Corkine: Tis true, 'tis day, what though...
Performers: Agnew, Paul [Tenor Vocals]; Wilson, Christopher [Lute]
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Ensemble: Concordia (Viol Consort)

Lanier: Hero and Leander / Paul Agnew, Christopher Wilson

1 CD / Metronome / 2001-07-30

Works: Nicholas Laniere: Hero's Complaint; Weep no more my wearied eyes; Neither sighs, nor tears, nor mourning; Stay, silly heart, and do not break; Qual musico gentil
Performers: Agnew, Paul; Wilson, Christopher

Explore the Classics - Love

1 CD / Allegro Imports / 1998-03-31

Works: Ralph Vaughan Williams: The lark ascending; Mystical Songs (5) for baritone, chorus ad lib & orchestra (or organ); Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis; English Traditional: Greensleeves, folk song; ...
Conductors: Abravanel, Maurice
Ensemble: Utah Symphony Orchestra