Wilson, John

Mistress Elizabeth Davenant: Her Songs

1 CD / Ramee / 2011-05-10

Works: Anonymous: Hear My Prayer Oh Lord (Psalm 143); Cloris Sighed, song; Drop golden showers; Robert Johnson: Woods, rocks and mountains; Gallyard for lute (My Lady Mildmay's Delight); Almaine for lute (f...
Performers: Eynde, Sofie Vanden; Ockenden, Rebecca

This fascinating collection explores the emancipation of feminine creative energy in the turbulent 17th century....continue...
Recording information: Sint-Truiden, Belgium, Keizerszaal (01/2010)....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

Ravish'd With Sacred Extasies / Gillian Keith, soprano

1 CD / Coro / 2010-09-14

Works: Henry Purcell: A Morning Hymn (Thou wakeful shepherd), Z. 198; How long, great God, Z 189; Tell me, some pitying angel, Z 196 "Blessed Virgin's Expostulation"; Lord, what is man?, Z 192; Sleep, Adam,...
Performers: David Miller [Lute/Baroque Guitar]; Thomas, Elin Manahan

CORO continues its work with the rising stars of the early music world on this brand new recording by two of The Sixteen's principal members...continue...
Recording information: St John's Church, Loughton, Essex (11/2009)....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...

The Artistry of Emma Kirkby

4 CD / BIS (Sweden) / 2009-02-09

Works: George Frederick Handel: Gloria, for soprano & orchestra (discovered in 2001); Salve Regina, antiphon for soprano, strings, organ & continuo in G minor, HWV 241; O qualis de coelo sonus, motet for so...
Performers: Abberger, John; Carter, William; Charlston, Terence; Georgi, Thomas; Gwilt, Richard; Harris, Lucas [Lute]; Kirkby, Emma; Laurence Cummings [Conductor/Harpsichord]; Lindberg, Jakob; Mellon, Agnes [Sop...
Conductors: Cummings, Laurence; Medlam, Charles;
Ensemble: ; Theatre of Early Music

With her almost supernaturally clear and agile soprano, Emma Kirkby has enchanted audiences ever since she first appeared on the Early Music scene in the...continue...

English Music of the 17th Century

2 CD / Teldec (USA) Import / 2008-04-15

Works: William Lawes: Suite no 2 à 5 in F major; Sonata no 7 in D minor; Suite no 3 in B flat major; Orlando Gibbons: Pavan, for 6 viols, MB41; Fantasias (10) for Keyboard; Giles Farnaby: Fantasia no ...
Performers: Binkley, Thomas; Burgess, Grayston; Cobb, Willard; Eder, Franz; Jones, Sterling; Klein, Karl Heinz; Leonhardt, Gustav; Lukas, Viktor; Ramm, Andrea von; Smithers, Don; Vocal], Nigel Rogers [Tenor
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Ensemble: Concentus Musicus Wien; Leonhardt Consort; Studio der frühen Musik

Gallimaufry - Elizabethan and Jacobean Music / Passamezz

1 CD / Symposium / 2007-10-01

Works: English Traditional: Work(s); How Should I Your True Love Know?, folk song; Anonymous, English: The Dark Is My Delight, song; Passamezzo antico, for ensemble; What Meat Eats the Spaniard?, broadside ...
Performers: Goodwin, Christopher; Kenny, Peter Luke; Kinder, Alison; Lewis, Tamsin
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Ensemble: Passamezzo

A Gallimaufry is a jumble, a hodgepodge, a ridiculous medley or, in this case a wondrous collection of theatre songs, broadside ballads, street cries, consort...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]

"All are sung with Kirkby's customary radiance of voice, technical agility and interpretative intelligence. I am sure the Classical Association would have been impressed by...continue...

Shakespeare Songs / Alfred Deller, Desmond Dupré, et al

1 CD / Harmonia Mundi / 2000-10-01

Works: Thomas Morley: First Booke of Ayres; O mistress mine, where are you roaming; John Wilson: Take, O Take Those Lips Away; Thomas Weelkes: Strike it up tabor, madrigal for 3 voices; Anonymous: Willow So...
Performers: Dupré, Desmond
Conductors: Deller, Alfred
Ensemble: Deller Consort

Shakespeare's Music / Baird, McFarlane, Urrey, et al

1 CD / Sono Luminus / 2000-03-08

Works: William Byrd: My Lord of Oxenford's Mask (From Thomas Morley's "The First Booke of Consort Lessons"); Anonymous, English: Robin Is to the Greenwood Gone, ballad; Kemp's Gigue; Lavolto; Fortune my foe...

This irresistible mid-priced collection provides an eighty-minute overview of some of the remarkable music mentioned in the plays of William Shakespeare and his contemporaries....continue...

Songs for William Shakespeare / Sara Stowe

1 CD / Gift Of Music / 2000-01-01

Works: Robert Johnson: Where the bee sucks; Full fathom five; Hark, hark! the lark; Anonymous, English: Kemp's Gigue; The Poor Soul Sat Sighing, song (a.k.a. "The Willow Songs"); Bergamasca; Sellengers Roun...
Performers: Lindo, Sharon; Spring, Matthew; Stowe, Sara

The finest songs from Shakespeare's plays, from Johnson's arrangement of 'Where the bee sucks' in 'The Tempest' to Morley's famous version of Feste's song, 'O...continue...