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All the Queen's Men / Music for Elizabeth I

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2011-03-29

Works: Thomas Weelkes: As Vesta was from Latmos hill descending, madrigal for 6 voices; Thomas Hunt: Hark! did ye ever hear so sweet a singing?, madrigal for 6 voices; William Byrd: O Lord, make Thy servant...
Performers: Heringman, Jacob [Lute]
Conductors: Mackay, Andrew

The "Virgin Queen" Elizabeth I was the focal point of all England - the subject, dedicatee and audience for much of the music composed and...continue...
Recording information: Sarum St Martin, Salisbury, Wilts, UK (07/17/2009-07/18/2009)....continue...

Alfred Deller Complete Vanguard Recordings Vol 5 - English, French & Italian Madrigals / Deller Consort

6 CD / Musical Concepts / 2009-05-19

Works: Thomas Morley: Now is the month of maying; In dewe of roses, madrigal for 4 voices; Shoot, false love, I care not, madrigal for 5 voices; Miraculous love's wounding, madrigal for 2 voices; Harke; All...
Performers: Deller, Alfred
Conductors:
Ensemble: Baroque String Ensemble

Similar to Volume 1, this extensive set of English, French and Italian Madrigals includes recordings that are not subject to the whims of performance practice...continue...

English Madrigals - Sing We at Pleasure / Pro Cantione Antiqua

1 CD / Musical Concepts / 2009-02-24

Works: John Wilbye: Flora gave me fairest flowers, madrigal (no 22, The First Set of English Madrigals); Draw on sweet night; Adieu, sweet Amaryllis, madrigal (no 12, The First Set of English Madrigals); We...

"The English Madrigal grew out of the 16th century Italian style and became the forerunner of popular small group singing such as glees, barbershop and...continue...

Romance du Soir - Elgar, Schubert, Baristow, etc / King's Singers

1 CD / Signum UK / 2009-02-14

Works: Camille Saint-Saëns: Choruses (2) for chorus with piano ad lib, Op. 68; Sérénade d'hiver, for 4 male voices; Romance du soir, song for SATB, Op. 118; Edward Bairstow: Music, When Soft ...

Combining perennial favorites with wonderful new discoveries, these immediately appealing pieces reflect the much-loved repertoire at the heart of a King's Singers program with the...continue...

English Madrigals / Phillips, The Tallis Scholars

1 CD / Gimell / 2007-07-10

Works: Thomas Weelkes: Harke all ye lovely saints above, madrigal for 5 voices; Thomas Morley: Harke; Alleluia cheerely, madrigal for 6 voices; Phillis, I faine wold die now, madrigal for 7 voices; Thomas V...

Originally released on the Classics for Pleasure label, the issuing of this CD will mark the first time these tracks have been commercially available for...continue...

The Art of Melancholy / Festa, Daedalus Ensemble

2 CD / Accent / 2007-01-05

Works: John Dowland: Lachrimae or Seaven Teares; Giovanni Maria Trabaci: Conzonanze stravaganti; Gagliarda quinta cromatica a 5 detta "La Trabacina"; Girolamo Frescobaldi: Il primo libro di capricci fatti s...
Performers: Cabre, Josep; Sandilands, Hugh
Conductors: Festa, Roberto
Ensemble: Daedalus Ensemble

Roberto Festa and his Ensemble Daedalus present a masterly expressive picture of melancholy in 16th and 17th century music....continue...

Monteverdi & his Contemporaries - Madrigals / Gardiner

1 CD / Regis Records / 2006-10-11

Works: Claudio Monteverdi: Madrigals, Book 6; Madrigals, Book 5; Madrigals, Book 4; Carlo Gesualdo: Madrigals, Book 5; John Wilbye: Weepe, mine eyes; Oft have I vowde; Draw on sweet night; Orlando Gibbons: ...
Conductors: Gardiner, John Eliot
Ensemble: Monteverdi Choir

1st time on CD - a chance to hear one of the world's top conductors, John Eliot Gardiner, in his earliest recordings....continue...

Flora Gave Me Fairest Flowers / Rutter, Cambridge Singers

1 CD / Collegium / 2003-09-01

Works: Thomas Weelkes: Harke all ye lovely saints above, madrigal for 5 voices; As Vesta was from Latmos hill descending, madrigal for 6 voices; Ha ha this world doth passe, madrigal for 3 voices; Death hat...
Conductors: Rutter, John
Ensemble: Cambridge Singers members

Saturn and Polyphony / Roberto Festa, Ensemble Daedalus

1 CD / Accent / 2000-04-15

Works: Anonymous: Cor mio volonturioso; Josquin Desprez: Plaine de dueil, song for 5 parts; Luys de Narváez: Cancion del emperador, for vihuela; Cipriano de Rore: O sonno, madrigal; Juan Blas de Cast...
Conductors:
Ensemble: Ensemble Daedalus

"Roberto Festa has taken a unique but certainly not unwarranted approach to the music of the Renaissance and early baroque...The performances here are extremely well...continue...

Stillness and Sweet Harmony / Cambridge Singers, et al

1 CD / Collegium / 1996-09-01

Works: Gregorian Chant: Adoro te devote, hymn; Alma redemptoris mater, antiphon; Gabriel Fauré: Requiem, Op. 48; Tantum ergo, for vocal soloists, 3-part women's chorus & organ in E major, Op. 65/2; W...
Performers: Ashton, Caroline; Cambridge Singers; Holton, Ruth; Kemp, Nicola-Jane; Kerslake, Karen; Marshall, Melanie; Pott, Charles; Scott, John

English Madrigals and Songs / Summerly, Oxford Camerata

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 1996-08-22

Works: Henry VIII, King of England: Pastyme with Good Companye for 3 voices; William Cornysh: Blow thi horne hunter; Ah Robyn, gentle Robyn; Anonymous, English: Hey trolly lolly lo (16th century); John Wilb...
Conductors: Summerly, Jeremy
Ensemble: Oxford Camerata

Olde English Madrigals and Folk Songs At Ely Cathedral

1 CD / American Gramophone / 1988-05-30

Works: Thomas Greaves: Come Away, Sweet Love; John Bennet: Weep, O mine eyes (from Madrigals to four voyces); John Farmer: Fair Phyllis I Saw Sitting All Alone; Thomas Morley: Now is the month of maying; Ap...
Performers: Cambridge Singers; Rutter, John
Conductors: Rutter, John
Ensemble: Cambridge Singers

Personnel: Jo Maggs, Nancy-Jane Rucker, Celia Jackson, Marcelle Marce, Katie Sidwell, Mary Seers , Clare Wallace, Simone Mace, Caroline Ashton, Mary Hitch (soprano); David Brough, Howard Milner, David...continue...