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| AlbumTitle | Subtitle | Works | Performers | Record Label | Catalog No |
| John Dowland | The Collected Works | 1. First Booke of Songs 1597; 2. Second Booke of Songs 1600; 3. Third Booke of Songs 1603; 4. A Pilgrimes Solace (Fourth Booke of Songs) 1612; 5. Mr Henry Noell Lamentations; 6. Lachrimae 1604; 7. Sacred Songs; 8.Psalms; 9. Consort Music; 10. Lute Music; 11. Keyboard transcriptions; 12. A Musicall Banquet 1610 (Robert Dowland); all in 12 CD set | The Consort of Musicke dir. Anthony Rooley | L'Oiseau-Lyre | 452 563-2 |
| John Dowland | Complete Lute Works | 5 CD set | Paul O'Dette, lute and orpharion | Harmonia Mundi | HMX 2907160/64 |
| Seaven Teares - Music of John Dowland | Lacrimae, or Seaven Teares (1604) | 1. Mistresse Nichols Almand; 2. M. George Whitehead his Almand; 3. Mr. John Langtons Pavan; 4. Come heavy sleepe; 5. M. Giles Hobies Galiard; 6. M. Nicholas Gryffith his Galiard; 7. Sorrow stay; 8. M Buctons Galiard; 9. M. Henry Noel his Galiard; 10. Go crystall teares; 11. The Earle of Essex Galiard; 12. Captaine Digorie Piper his Galiard; 13. The King of Denmarks Galiard; 14. Semper Dowland semper dolens; 15. Sir John Souch his Galiard; 16. 1 saw my Lady weepe; 17. Lachrimae Antiquae; 18. Lachrimae Antiquae Novae; 19. Lachrimae Gementes; 20. Lachrimae Tristes; 21. Lachrimae Coactae; 22. Lachrimae Amantis; 23. Lachrimae Verae; 24. Flow my teares | The Kings Noysedir. David Douglass; Paul O'Dette (l), Ellen Hargis (sop) | Harmonia Mundi | HMU 907275 |
| Lute Music of John Dowland | 1. Sir John Smith's Almain; 2. Captain Digorie Piper's Galliard; 3. My Lord Willoughby's Welcome Home; 4. Melancholy Galliard; 5. My Lady Hunsdon's Puffe; 6. Piper's Pavan; 7. The Earl of Essex Galliard; 8. Fantasie #1; 9. Fortune My Foe; 10. Lady Laiton's Almain; 11. Lachrimae; 12. Queen Elizabeth's Galliard; 13. Tarleton's Resurrection; 14. Mrs. Winter's Jump; 15. Preludium; 16. Dowland's Galliard; 17. Go Front My Window; 18. Round Battle Galliard; 19. What it a Day; 20. The Shoemaker's Wife; 21. A Fancy #5; 22. Mi. Dowland's Midnight; 23. Dr Case's Pavan; 24. Or lando Sleepeth; 25. Lady Clifton's Spirit; 26. Semper Dowland, Semper Dolens; 27. The Frog Galliard; 28. Mrs. While's Nothing | Ronn McFarlane (l) | Dorian | DOR-90148 | |
| The Art of Melancholy | Songs by John Dowland | 1. Second Booke of Songes or Ayres: no 3, Sorrow sorrow stay, lend true repentant teares (John Dowland); 2. Firste Booke of Songes or Ayres: no 17, Come againe, sweet love doth now envite (John Dowland); 3. Firste Booke of Songes or Ayres: no 9, Go, crystall teares (John Dowland); 4. Winters Jomps, P 55 (John Dowland); 5. Second Booke of Songes or Ayres: no 1, I saw my lady weepe (John Dowland); 6. Second Booke of Songes or Ayres: no 2, Flow, my teares (John Dowland); 7. Firste Booke of Songes or Ayres: no 5, Can she excuse my wrongs? (John Dowland); 8. Third and Last Booke of Songes or Aires: no 3, Behold a wonder here (John Dowland); 9. Semper Dowland semper dolens, P 9 (John Dowland); 10. In darkness let mee dwell (John Dowland); 11. Third and Last Booke of Songes or Aires: no 2, Time stands still (John Dowland); 12. Firste Booke of Songes or Ayres: no 14, All ye whom love or fortune (John Dowland); 13. Third and Last Booke of Songes or Aires: no 7, Say love if ever thou didst find (John Dowland); 14. Lachrimae Pavan, P 15 (John Dowland); Performer: Thomas Dunford (Lute) 15. Firste Booke of Songes or Ayres: no 11, Come away, come sweet love (John Dowland); 16. A Pilgrimes Solace: no 5, Shall I strive with wordes to move (John Dowland); 17. Firste Booke of Songes or Ayres: no 8, Burst forth my teares (John Dowland); 18. Fortune, P 62 (John Dowland); 19. Firste Booke of Songes: no 20, Come, heavy sleepe (John Dowland); 20. Firste Booke of Songes or Ayres: no 6, Now, o now, I needs must part (John Dowland) | Iestyn Davies (ct), Thomas Dunford (l) | Hyperion | CDA68007 |
| 'The Sypres Curten of the Night' | Elizabethan & Jacobean Lute Songs | 1. Never weather-beaten saile (Thomas Campion); 2. Author of light (Thomas Campion); 3. The Sypres Curten of the Night (Thomas Campion); 4. Since first I saw your face (Thomas Ford); 5. Faire, sweet, cruell (Thomas Ford); 6. What then is love sings Coridon (Thomas Ford); 7. Heres paternus (Anthony Holborne); 8. Griefe keepe within (John Danyel); 9. Drop not mine eies (John Danyel); 10. Have all our passions (John Danyel); 11. What then is love but mourning (Philip Rosseter); 12. Shall I come if I swim? (Philip Rosseter); 13. No grave for woe (Philip Rosseter); 14. The night watch (Anthony Holborne); 15. Muy linda (Anthony Holborne); 16. I saw my Lady weepe (John Dowland,); 17. Shall I strive with wordes to move? (John Dowland); 18. Sorrow, stay, lend true repentant teares (John Dowland); 19. Can she excuse my wrongs? (John Dowland); 20. Fantasia (Anthony Holborne); 21. Miserere my Maker (Anonymous) | Michael Chance (ct), Christopher Wilson (l) | Chandos | CHAN 0538 |
| Armada | Music from the courts of England and Spain | 1. Rejoice unto the Lord (Byrd); 2. Diferencias sobre "La dama le demanda" (Antonio de Cabezón); 3. Fantasia (Lopez); 4. Morenica dame (Miguel de Fuenllana); 5. Browning a 3 (Elway Bevin); 6. The Carman's Whistle, MB 36 (Byrd); 7. Psalmes, Sonets and Songs: Come to me, grief, forever (Byrd); 8. Trattado de glosas: Recercada secunda "sobre canto llano" (Diego Ortiz); 9. Fantasia à 5 "Susana un jur" (Hernando de Cabezón); 10. Fantasia de redobles (Miguel de Fuenllana); 11. In angel's weed (Byrd); 12. Dulce memoria (Hernando de Cabezón); 13. Diferencias sobre "La Milanesa" (Antonio de Cabezón); 14. Recercada tercera (Diego Ortiz); 15. Pandolpho 1 "Pour down, you pow'rs divine" (Parsons); 16. Fantasia a 4 (White); 17. Quiento hizo (Esteban Daza); 18. In Nomine a 5 (Picforth); 19. Almain "The Honiesuckle" (Anthony Holborne); 20. Pavan "Paradizo" (Anthony Holborne); 21. Coranto "Fairy Round" (Anthony Holborne); 22. Fantasia a 5 in C major (Byrd); 23. Lachrimae or Seaven Teares: M. Bucton his Galiard (Dowland); 24. Lachrimae or Seaven Teares: Captaine Piper his Galiard (Dowland); 25. Fantasy a 4 (Bull); 26. Lachrimae or Seaven Teares: Lachrimae antiquae (Dowland); 27. Lachrimae or Seaven Teares: M. Nicholas Gryffith his Galiard (Dowland); 28. In Nomine à 5 (Alfonso (II) Ferrabosco); 29. Fantasias (2) à 4 "for the great double bass": Excerpt(s) (Orlando Gibbons); 30. In Nomine à 5 (Orlando Gibbons); 31. Aires for 2 Division Viols in C major: Pavan of Alfonso (Lawes); 32. Aires for 2 Division Viols in C major: Almaine of Alfonso (Lawes); 33. My Ladye Nevalls Booke: A Fancie on C (Byrd); 34. Consort Sett à 5 in C major (Lawes) | Michael Chance (Countertenor), Christopher Wilson (Lute), Paul Nicholson (Harpsichord, Organ), Richard Booth (Bass Viola da gamba), Fretwork | Virgin Veritas | 7243 5 61821 2 7 |
| The Knight of the Lute - Matthew Wadsworth | Music from The Varietie of Lute Lessons | 1. Sir John Smith, his Almain, for lute, P 47 (John Dowland); 2. Fantasie, for lute (Gregory Huwet); 3. Pavans for lute (Antony Holborne); 4. The Most Sacred Queen Elizabeth, her Galliard (Katherine Darcy's Galliard), for lute, P 41 (John Dowland); 5. Volt 1 for lute (Anon.); 6. Fantasie IV (Da Roma Laurencini); 7. Pavin, for lute (Daniel Batchelar); 8. Courante for lute (Robert Ballard); 9. Fantasie composed by the most Artificial & famous for lute (Alfonso Ferrabosco); 10. Pavin (Alfonso Ferrabosco); 11. Coranto for lute No. 6 (from "The Varietie of Lute Lessons, 1610") (Anon.); 12. Courante (Julien Perrichon); 13. Fantasie, for lute (Da Roma Laurencini); 14. Pavin (in honorem Johanni Dowlandi Anglorum Orphei), for lute (Moritz Landgraf Von Hessen); 15. The King of Denmark, his Galliard, for lute, P 40 (John Dowland); 16. Monsieur Saman his Coranto, for lute (RenŽ Saman); 17. The Right Honourable the Lady Cliftons Spirit for lute, P45 (Robert Dowland); 18. Pavin and galliard, for keyboard in F major (Thomas Morley); 19. The Right Honourable Ferdinando Earl of Derby, his Galliard, for lute (John Dowland) | Matthew Wadsworth | Channel Classics | CCS SA 25408 |
| Thomas Simpson | An Englishman Abroad | 1. Paduan; 2. Aria -- Mrs Nichols Almand; 3. M. John Langstons Pavan; other works by Simpson, Ferrabosco; Johnson; etc. | The Parley of Instrumentsdir.Peter Holman | Hyperion | 66435 |
| Music For Lute | I. England | 1. The King of Denmark's Galliard; 2. Lachrimae Antique Pavan; 3. Fantasia; 4. My Lady Hunsdon's Puffe; 5. Melancholy Galliard; 6. Mrs Winter's Jump; 7. Semper Dowland semper dolens; 8. The Earl of Essex Galliard; 9. Forlorn Hope Fancy; others by Bulman, Morley, Cutting, Robert Johnson, Holborne | Konrad Ragossnig | Archiv | 2533 157 (LP) |
| Elizabethan Lute Songs and Solos | 1. Fine knacks for ladies; 2. Shall I sue; 3. Away with these self-loving lads; 4. In darkness let me dwell; 5. Tarletones risurrectione; 6. Galliard in D; 7. Come again: sweet love doth now invite; 8. What if I never speed?; 9. I saw my lady weep; 10. Awake, sweet love thou art return'd; others by Cutting, Campion, Rosseter, Morley | Frank Patterson (ten), Robert Spencer (l) | Philips | 6500 282 (LP) | |
| The Golden Age of English Lute Music | 1. Mignarda (Galliard); 2. Galliard upon a galliard of Daniell Batchelar; 3. Batell Galliard; others by John Johnson, Cutting, Robert Johnson, Rosseter, Morley, Bulman, Batchelar, Holborne | Julian Bream (l) | RCA Victor | LD 2560 (LP) | |
| The Cozens Lute Book | Selected Pieces | 1. Fancy; 2. Lachrimae Pavan; 3. Frogg Galliard; others by Robinson, Batchelar, Danyel, Hollis, Smythe, Laurencini, Romani, Anon. | Anthony Rooley (l) | L'Oiseau Lyre | DSLO 510 (LP) |
| English Ayres and Duets | sung in authentic Elizabethan pronunciation | 1. Fine knacks for ladies; 2. In darkness let me dwell; 3. Time's eldest son, Old Age; 4. Flow my tears; 5. Now, on now, I needs must part; 6. Come away, come, sweet love; 7. Humour, say what mak'st thou here; others by Campion, Ferrabosco II, Hume, Danyel, Pilkington. Jones | The Camerata of London | Hyperion | A66003 (LP) |
| Greensleeves | A Collection of English Lute Songs | 1. In Darkness Let Me Dwell 2. Sorrow Stay; 3. Come Again; 4. Away With These Self Loving Lads; 5. Time Stands Still; other works by Ferrabosco II, Rosseter, Morley, Holborne, Cavendish, etc | Julianne Baird (s); Ronn McFarlane (l) | Dorian | DOR-90126 |
| Heavenly Noyse | English Music for Mixed Consort from the Golden Age | 1. Lachrimae; 2. Can She Excuse; 3. The Frog Galliard; others by Byrd, Morley, Philips, Campion, Nicholson, Lupo, Baxter, Holborne, Hume, Allison | Dowland Consortdir.Jakob Lindberg | Bis | CD-451 |
| The Spirit of Gambo | English Consort and Solo Viol Music 1570-1680 | 1. Sit Fast (Tye); 2. Lachrimae Gementes (Dowland); 3. The Earle of Essex Galliarde (Dowland); 4. Harke, harke (Hume); 5. A Souldiers Resolution (Hume); 6. Fantasia V (Coprario); 7. Almaine III (Coprario); 8. Coranto (Coprario); 9. Fantasie X (Gibbons); 10. In Nomine (Gibbons); 11. Almaine (Ferrabosco II); 12. Coranto I (Ferrabosco II); 13. Coranto II (Ferrabosoco II); 14. The bell Pavan (Jenkins); 15. Walsingham (Corkine); 16. The Punckes delight (Corkine); 17. Suite No. II in D minor-major (Locke); 18. The Lancashire Pipes (Anon.); 19. Fantasia IX (Purcell); 20. Fantasia upon one note (Purcell) | Hesperion XXdir.Jordi Savall | Fontalis | ES 9913 |
| Lie Down, Poor Heart | English Lutesongs & Folk Ballads | 1. Say, Love, if ever thou didst find - John Dowland; 2. Sorrow stay - John Dowland; 3. I saw my lady weep - John Dowland; 4. Never weather' beaten sails - Thomas Campion; 5. Cuperaree (Lute Solo) John Coperario; 6. What if I seek for love of thee - Robert Jones; 7. Lie Down, Poor Heart - Robert Jones; 8. The Fairy Masque (Lute Solo) - Robert Johnson; 9. Mary, Young and Fair (Lute Solo) - Anonymous; 10. The Isle of Aigas (Lute Solo) - Anonymous; 11. Prelude (Lute Solo) Anonymous; 12. Corranto (Lute Solo) Anonymous; 13. A Coranto (Lute Solo) - Anonymous; 14. Grays Inn mask (Lute Solo) - Anonymous; 15. Howm againe Markget is done (Lute Solo) - Anonymous; 16. Joane to the may pole (Lute Solo) - Anonymous; 17. Variations on the Scottish air (Lute Solo) - Turlough O'Carolan (1670-1738); 18. Black is the colour - Folksong; 19. I will give my love an apple - Folksong; 20. The Three Ravens - Folksong; 21. O waly, waly - Folksong; 22. Down by the Salley Gardens - Folksong; 23. Greensleeves - Folksong; 24. The foggy dew - Folksong; | Daniel Taylor (ct); Sylvain Bergeron (l) | Dorian | DOR-90287 |
| "O Sweet Love" | Byrd | Dowland | 1. Ye sacred Muses (William Byrd); 2. A Fancy (John Dowland); 3. Shall I strive with words to move? (John Dowland); 4. Fortune (William Byrd); 5. Blame I confess (William Byrd); 6. Go From My Window (John Dowland); 7. Say, Love, if ever thou didst find (John Dowland); 8. My Lord Willoughby's Welcome Home (John Dowland); 9. Come to me grief for ever (William Byrd); 10. The Bells (William Byrd); 11. Ah silly Soul (William Byrd); 12. The Carman's Whistle (William Byrd); 13. Lady Hunsdon's Puffe (John Dowland); 14. Come again (John Dowland); 15. Tregian's Ground (William Byrd) | Daniel Taylor (ct), Les Voix Humaines, Stephen Stubbs (l) | Atma | ACD2-2207 |
| A Candle in the Dark | Elizabethan Songs and Consort Music | 1. In darknesse let mee dwell; 2. Sorrow, stay!; 3. His golden locks time hath to silver turnde; others by Byrd, Picforth, Mundy, Tye, Campion, Ferrbosco, White | Ellen Hargis (s), Drew Minter (ct), The Newberry Consort dir. Mary Springfels | Harmonia Mundi | HMU 907140 |
| A Musicall Dreame | Duets from 'A Musicall Dreame' (Fourth Book of Ayres, 1609) by (Robert Jones) | 1. Though your strangeness frets my heart (Robert Jones); 2. Sweet Kate (Robert Jones); 3. Once did I serve a cruel heart (Robert Jones); 4. A Spanish Humour (The Lord Hayes'Favourite) (Tobias Hume); 5. Will said to his mammy (Robert Jones); 6. Hark!Hark! (Tobias Hume); 7. Hark!Wot ye what? (Robert Jones); 8. My complaining is but feigning (Robert Jones); 9. The King of Denmark's Health (Tobias Hume); 10. On a time in summer season (Robert Jones); 11. Farewell, fond youth (Robert Jones); 12. Lachrimae Pavan (John Dowland); 13. Grief of my best love's absenting (Robert Jones); 14. Giles Farnaby's Dream (Giles Farnaby); 15. His Rest (Giles Farnaby); 16. And is it night? Are they thine eyes that shine? (Robert Jones); 17. Farnaby’s Conceit (Giles Farnaby); 18. His Humour (Giles Farnaby); 19. Ite caldi sospiri (Robert Jones); 20. Intenerite, voi (Angelo Notari); 21. Flow my tears (John Dowland); 22. In darkness let me dwell (John Coprario); | David Cordier, Michael Chance (ct), Tragicomedia dir. Stephen Stubbs | Hyperion | CDA 66335 |
| Tanzmusik von der Renaisance bis zum Biedermeir | Dance Music Through the Ages | 1. Queen Elizabeth her Galliard; 2. Mrs Winter's Jump (Dowland); others var. in 4 CD set | Ulsamer Collegiumdir.Eduard Melkus | Archive | 439 964-2 |
| Jane Pickeringe's Lute Book | 1. [A Toy] [#33](Anon.); 2. A Toye [#38](Anon.); 3. A Toye [69](Anon.); 4. Almaine by Francis Cuttinge [62](Cutting); 5. A Toye [30] (Anon.); 6. A Toye (Up Tails All)[72] (Anon.); 7. Drawe near me and lowe me [50] (Anon.); 8. A pavin by Rosseters [44] (Rosseter); 9. A galyard by Rosseters [45] (Rosseter); 10. My lord willoughbies welcome home by Mr byrde [68] (Byrd); 11. Myles Symes [46] (Batchelar?); 12. [Coranto][77] (Lespine?); 13. [An Allemande][87] (Anon.); 14. Galliard [93] (Anon.); 15. [A Country Dance][92] (Anon.); 16. Besse Bell [89] (Anon.); 17. Horne-pipe [91] (Anon.); 18. Sarabande [106] (Anon.); 19. de Sarabande [103] (Germain Pinel?); 20. A pavin by mr Johnsonn [36] (John Johnson); 21. A Crananto [Coranto][53] (Anon.); 22. [A Toy] [16] (Anon.); 23. A Toye [32] (Anon.); 24. A Toye [The Friar and the Nun] [73] (Anon.); 25 [A Toye] [49] (Anon.); 26. A pavin by Mr Daniell Bachler [47] (Batchelar); 27. A Galyard by Mr Daniell Bachler [57] (Batchelar); 28. A Fantasia [37] (Rosseter); 29. The Madley [74] (Anon.); 30. Sweet Robyne [35] (Dowland) | Jacob Heringman (l) | Avie | AV0002 | |
| Musickes Sweetest Joyes | Simpson | Dowland | Hume | Locke | 1. Prelude in D (Christopher Simpson); 2. Divisions on a Ground (Simpson); 3. Prelude in e minor (Simpson); 4. Divisions on a Ground (Simpson); 5. A Pavin (Robert Jones); 6. Coranto (Corkine); 7. The Punckes Delight (Corkine); 8. A Pavin (Corkine); 9. Coranto (Corkine); 10. "Cease Leaden Slumber" (Hume); 11. Goode againe (Hume); 12. "What greater griefe" (Hume); 13. A Polish Ayre (Hume); 14. "Fain would I change that note" (Hume); 15. Preludium (Dowland); 16. "Go nightly cares" (Dowland); 17. (A piece without a title)(Dowland); 18. Coranto (Dowland); 19. "Lasso mia vita" (Dowland); 20. "Like hermit poor" (Lanier); 21. Suite in C minor/Major (Locke) | Johanette Zomer (s); Peter Kooij (b), Mieneck van der Velden, Jaap ter Linden (v da g), Fred Jacobs (l) | Channel Classics | CCS 21204 |
| English Music For Harpsichord | 1. Melancholy Galliard (Dowland); 2. The Shoemaker's Wife (Dowland); 3. My Lady Hunsdowne's Puffe (Dowland); 4. Pavan FWVB 4 (Ferdinando Richardson); 5. Almand FWVB 14 (Anon.); 6. Dr Bull's Juell FWVB 138 (Bull); 7. In Nomine FWVB 37 (Bull); 8. Walsingham FWVB 1 (Bull); 9. The King's Hunt FWVB 135 (Bull); 10. Bonny Sweet Robin FWVB FWVB 15 (Munday); 11. Alman FWVB 172 (Morley); 12. The Fall of the Leafe FWVB 172 (Peerson); 13. Galiardas Passamezzo FWVB 57 (Byrd); 14. Nobodys Gigge FWVB 149 (Richard Farnaby); 15. Air (Purcell); 16. Canary (Purcell); 17. Ground (Croft) | Zuzana Ruzickova (hpsd) | Supraphon | SUA ST 50787 (LP) | |
| Altenglische Consortmusik | 1. Lacrimae Pavin; others by Alison, Holborne, Lawes, Coperario, Strowgers, Ferrabosco II, Robert Johnson, Morley | Konrad Ragossnig (l), The Linde-Consort | EMI-Reflexe | 1C063-30 105 (LP) | |
| Madrigale und Orgelmusik der Englischen Renaissance | 1. Say, Love, if ever thou didst find; others by Tomkins, Tallis, Redford, Gibbons, Tye, Weelkes, Carleton, Byrd, Edwards, Shelby, Blitheman, Morley | The London Ambrosian Singersdir.John McCarthy | Polyhymnia | 1995 (LP) | |
| Metaphysical Tobacco | Songs and Dances by Dowland, East and Holborne | 1. Sorrow Stay (arr. anon.); 2. Pavan No V; 3. What if I never speed?; 4. Galliard Can she excuse (arr. Tisdall (?)); 5. In this trembling shadow; 6. Lasso vita mia; 7. M. Thomas Collier his Galiard; 8. Away with these self-loving lads; 9. Pipers Galiard (arr. John Bull); 10 Welcome black night; and other works by Dowland and Michael East | Musica Reservata dir.Michael Morrow; Purcell Consort of Voices dir.Grayston Burgess | Argo | ZRG 572 (LP) |
| Consortmusik auf Originalinstrumenten | 1. Pavan in C a 4; others by Coperario, Simpson, Lawes, Purcell | Leonhardt Consortdir.Gustav Leonhardt (hsd) | Das Alte Werk | SAWT 9576-B (LP) |