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A Partial Giles Farnaby Discography

AlbumTitle Subtitle Works Performers Record Label Catalog No
Giles Farnaby Complete Fantasias for Harpsichord 1. Fantasia (6/320); 2. Fantasia (8/323; 3. Fantasia (5/82); 4. Unidentified part-song arr. Philips (7/333); 5. Fantasia (4/489); 6. Fantasia (12/343); 7. Canzonet "Construe My Meaning"; 8. Fantasia (13/347); 9. Unidentified part-song arr. Farnaby (3/340); 10. Fantasia (10/313); 11. Canzonet "Ay me, poor heart" arr. Farnaby (11/320); 12. Canzonet "Witness, ye heavens"; 13. Fantasia (9/270); 14. "Loth to depart" Glen Wilson (hpsd) Naxos 8.570025
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
The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book Selection 1. Fantasia; 2. The Flatt Pavan; 3. Tower Hill; 4. A Masque; 5. A Toye; 6. Giles Farnaby's Dreame; 7. His Rest; 8. Farnaby's conceit; 9. His Humour; 10. Loth to Depart; others by Inglott, Philips, Bull, Byrd, Philips, Tisdall, Edward Johnson, Peerson, John Munday, anon. Christopher Hogwood L'Oiseau Lyre D261D2 (LP)
Masters of Early English Keyboard Music   1. The Old Spagnoletta; Spagnioletta; 2. Meridian Alman; 3. Tell me, Daphne; 4. His Dream; His Toye; His Reste; His Conceit; Tower Hill; 5. Muscadin; 6. The new Sahoo; 7. Rosasolis; 8. Galiarda; 9. Lord Zouche's Maske; 10. Loth to depart; others by Bull, Tomkins, Gibbons, Blitheman, Byrd, Preston, Locke, etc. Thurston Dart (h, org, clav) L'Oiseau Lyre OSL 114/8(LP)
The English Harpsichord 1. A Toye; 2. The Old Spagnoletta; 3.The New Sa-hoo; 4. Tell me, Daphne; 5. Giles Farnaby's Dream--His Rest--Farnaby's Conceit--His Humour; 6. Up Tails All; others by Byrd, Tomkins, Redford, Tallis, etc Igor Kipnis (h) Angel SB-3816(LP)
Colin Tilney plays English Virginal Music 1. 'Woody-Cock' ; others by Bull, Gibbons, Byrd, Philips, Aston Colin Tilney (v) Argo ZRG 675(LP)
English Music for the Virginal circa 1600 1. Fantasia; others by Morley, Bull, Byrd, Randall, Tisdale, Gibbons Gustav Leonhardt (vl and hsd) Das Alte Werke SAWT 9491-A (LP)
Music for Virginal Original Instruments 1. Pavan (Gibbons); 2. Galliard (Gibbons); 3. Prelude (Byrd); 4. Passamezzo Pavan (Byrd); 5. Passamezzo Galliard (Byrd); 6. The Hunt's Up (Byrd); 7. Why Ask You (Farnaby); 8. Why Ask You (Bull); 9. Prelude (Bull); 10. Chromatic Pavan (Queen Elizabeth's) (Bull); 11. Chromatic Galliard (Bull); 12. Pavan (Tomkins); The Hunting Galliard (Tomkins) Colin Tilney (hpsd, vir) Archive 2533 379 (LP)


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