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| AlbumTitle | Subtitle | Works | Performers | Record Label | Catalog No |
| Alfonso Ferrabosco | Psaume 103 - Motets & Madrigaux | 1. Dolci ire (madrigal à 5) C140; 2. Auprès de vous (chanson à 5) C81; 3. In nomine I (instr.); 4. Peccantem me quotidie (motet à 5) C52; 5. Psalmus CIII - Benedic anima mea C8-18; 6. Bruna sei tu, ma bella (madrigal à 5) C122; 7. Domine, non secundum peccata nostra (motet à 6) C32; 8. Quel sempre acerbo (madrigal à 6) C177 | Huelgas Ensemble dir. | Harmonia Mundi | HMC 901874 |
| The Royal Lewters | Music of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I's favourite lutenists | 1. Pastyme with good Companie (Henry VIII); 2. Fantasie (Van Wilder) ; 3. Philip 's Dump (Van Wilder); 4. The Duke of Somersettes Dompe (Anon.); 5. My Lady Careys Dompe (Anon.); 6. [Fantasy] (Anon., Hirsch Lutebook); 7. Sellenger 's Round (Anon.); 8. [A Dump] (Anon.); 9. Chi passa per 'sta strada (Anon., Marsh Lutebook); 10. Anthony Pavyn (Anthony De Countie [?]); 11. A Downe (Anon.); 12. Fantasia (Ferrabosco Sr); 13. Pavin (Ferrabosco Sr.); 14. [A Canzonettal (Ferrabosco Sr) ; 15. Collard's Ground (Edward Collard); 16. [A Canzonetta] (Anon.); 17. The Gathering of Pescodes (John Johnson); 18. A Paven to delight (John Johnson); 19. The Galliard to delighte (John Johnson); 20. Quadro Paven (John Johnson); 21. Omnino Galliard(John Johnson); 22. Carmans whistle (John Johnson); 23. Passing measures Pavin (John Johnson); 24. Walsingham (John Johnson); 25. A Pavin by Mr. Johnsonn (John Johnson); 26. Galliard (John Johnson); 27. [Conde Claros] (Anon.) | Paul O'Dette (l) | Harmonia Mundi | HMU 907313 |
| 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 |
| The Rags of Time | 17th C. English lute songs and dances | 1. Sweetest love I do not goe (Anon.); 2. Spoken: The Sunne Rising (Donne); 3. Sweet stay a while (H. Lawes); 4. Break of day (W. Corkine); 5. Spoken: The good-morrow (Donne); 6. Wherefore peep'st thou (John Wilson); 7. Lute solo: John come kiss me now (Anon.); 8. Goe and catch a fallinge star (Anon.); 9. Spoken: The Flea (Donne); 10. The Expiration (A. Ferrabosco); 11. Spoken: The Apparition (Donne); 12. Lute solo: The Noble man (Robert Johnson); 13. Wilt thou forgive that sinne (John Hilton); 14. Lute solo: Pavan (Robert Johnson); 15. Spoken: The triple Foole (Donne); 16. Loves Sweet Repose (H. Lawes); 17. Love's Flattery (W. Lawes); 18. Guitar solo: Chaconne in D (F. Corbetta); 19. Gather ye rosebuds while ye may (W. Lawes); 20. The Rose (H. Lawes); 21. Theorbo solo: Prelude in A minor (John Wilson); 22. The Selfe Banished (H. Lawes); 23. Theorbo solo: Prelude in F (John Wilson); 24. Peace, mutt'ring thoughts (John Wilson); 25. Theorbo solo: Prelude in B flat (John Wilson); 26. Have you e'er seen the morning sun (H. Lawes) | Paul Hillier (bar); Nigel North (l, theorbo, gtr) | Harmonia Mundi | HMU 907257 |
| Ferdinando Richardson | Complete Works for Harpsichord | 1. Pavane and Variation in D minor (Richardson); 2. Galliard and Variation in D minor (Richardson); 3. Pavane and Variation in G Major/minor (Richardson); 4. Galliard and Variation in G minor (Richardson); 5. Pavane in A minor (Richardson); 6. Galliard in A minor (Richardson); 7. Allemande (Richardson); 8. Pavane and Galliard for lute in D minor (Morley, arr. Richardson); 9. Fantasia (Ferrabosco I, arr. anon.); 10. Lullaby, my sweet little baby (Byrd, arr. anon); 11. Fantasia (Harding, arr. anon.); 12. Galliard "The Queen's New Year's Gift" (Holborne, arr. anon.); 13. Fantasia (Paradiso, arr. anon.); 14. The Trumpet (Anon.); 15. Wakefield on a green (Anon. [Byrd?]); 16. Upon la mi re (Anon.); 17. Praeludium (El. Kiderminster [Bull?]); 18. Fantasia (Strogers) | Glen Wilson (hpsd) | Naxos | 8.572997 |
| A Candle in the Dark | Elizabethan Songs and Consort Music | 1. So beautie on the waters stood; others by Byrd, Dowland, William Mundy, Tye, Campion, Picforth, John Johnson, White | Ellen Hargis (s), Drew Minter (ct), The Newberry Consort dir. Mary Springfels | Harmonia Mundi | HMU 907140 |