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| AlbumTitle | Subtitle | Works | Performers | Record Label | Catalog No |
| Henry Lawes | Ayres | 1. Slide soft you silver floods (Henry Lawes); 2. Have you e'er seen the morning sun (Henry Lawes); 3. Bid me but live, and I will live (Henry Lawes); 4. Divisions on a Ground (Frances Withy); 5. Prelude (Daniel Bacheler); 6. I rise and grieve (Henry Lawes); 7. Or you, or I nature did wrong (Henry Lawes); 8. Neither sighs, nor tears, nor mourning (Nicholas Lanier); 9. Almain / Corant 1 / Corant 2 (William Lawes); 10. Whither are all her false oaths blown? (Henry Lawes); 11. I'm sick of love "To the Sycamore" (William Lawes); 12. No more shall meads be deck'd with flowers (Nicholas Lanier); 13. Tregian's Ground (Daniel Norcombe); 14. When thou, porr excommunicate (Henry Lawes); 15. Sleep soft you cold clay cinders (Henry Lawes); 16. Out upon it, I have lov'd (Henry Lawes); 17. Courant (Jacques Gautier); 18. Cloches Mr Gaultier (Jacques Gautier); 19. Sweet stay awhile (Henry Lawes); 20. O tell me love! O tell me fate! (Henry Lawes); 21. Divisions on "John come kiss me now" (Christopher Simpson); 22. Wert Thou Yet Fairer (Henry Lawes); 23. Why so pale? (William Lawes) | La Rêveuse | Mirare | MIR 177 |
| Henry Lawes | Sitting by the Streams | 1. My Soul The Great God's Praises Sings; 2. The Lark - 'Swift Through The Yielding Air'; 3. Sweet, Stay Awhile; 4. Amintor's Welladay (Chloris Now); 5. A Dialogue - 'This Mossy Bank’; 6. The Anglers' Song - 'Man's Life Is But Vain'; 7 Hark, Shepherd Swains; 8. Thee And Thy Wondrous Deeds; 9. A Dream – ‘I Laid Me Down Upon A Pillow Soft'; 10. Tavola - 'In Quel Gelato Core; 11. I Prithee Send Me Back My Heart; 12. Slide Soft You Silver Floods; 13. Sing Fair Clorinda; 14. Orpheus' Hymn-'O King Of Heaven And Hell’; 15. The Mournful Lovers - 'Come, Sad Turtle’; 16. A Despairing Lover - 'Farewell, Despairing Hopes'; 17. Sitting By The Streams | The Consort of Musicke dir. Anthony Rooley (l) | Hyperion | CDA66135 |
| Lawes | Songs By Henry & William Lawes | 1. Gather your rosebuds while you may (William Lawes); 2. A Tale out of Anacreon (Henry Lawes); 3. Oh, that joy so soon should waste (Henry Lawes); 4. Sweet, stay awhile; why do you rise? (Henry Lawes); 5. Monsieur Saman his Coranto (René Saman); 6. Amarillis, by a spring (Henry Lawes); 7. Oh, let me still and silent lie (William Lawes); 8. Oh, my Clarissa, thou cruel fair (William Lawes); 9. From the heav'ns now I fly (Henry Lawes); 10 Corant from The Royall Consort (William Lawes); 11. Sweet Echo, sweetest nymph that liv'st unseen (Henry Lawes); 12. Country Dance (William Lawes); 13 Oh sweet woods, the delight of solitariness (Henry Lawes); 14 Tavola: In quel gelato core una voce (Henry Lawes); 15 Loves Sweet Repose: Amidst the myrtles as I walk (Henry Lawes); 16. No Reprieve: Now, now Lucasia, now make haste (Henry Lawes); 17. Fantasia (Cuthbert Hely); 18. Slide soft, you silver floods (Henry Lawes); 19 Saraband (Cuthbert Hely); 20. When shall I see my captive heart? (Henry Lawes); 21. Alman for two lutes (William Lawes); 22. Corant for two lutes (William Lawes); 23. A Dreame: I laid me down upon a pillow soft (William Lawes); 24. Corant for two lutes (William Lawes); 25. The Angler's Song: Man's life is but vain, for 'tis subject to pain (Henry Lawes); 26. When man for sin thy judgment feels (William Lawes); 27. A Pastoral Elegie: Cease you jolly shepherds (Henry Lawes) | Robin Blaze (ct), Elizabeth Kenny (l), with Rebecca Outram (sop), Robert MacDonald (b), William Carter (l, gtr, theorbo), Frances Kelly (double harp) | Hyperion | CDA67589 |
| Johnson • Lawes • Humfrey • Purcell | With endless teares | 1. Have you seen but the bright lily grow (Robert Johnson); 2. Woods, rocks and mountains (Robert Johnson); 3. With endless tears (Robert Johnson); 4. Come hither you that love (Robert Johnson); 5. Come, heavy sleep (Robert Johnson); 6. Almain (Robert Johnson); 7. The Prince's Almain (Robert Johnson); 8. Mark how the blushful morn (Nicholas Lanier); 9. I wish no more (Nicholas Lanier); 10. No more shall meads be deck'd with flowers (Nicholas Lanier); 11. Almain (Robert Johnson); 12. Almain (Robert Johnson); 13. Amarillis by a spring (Henry Lawes); 14. Amintor's Welladay (Henry Lawes); 15. Sleep soft, you cold clay cinders (Henry Lawes); 16. Chloris dead, lamented by Amintor (Henry Lawes); 17. Courante (Jacques Gaultier); 18. Volte (Jacques Gaultier); 19. Ariadne's Lament (Henry Lawes); 20. Courante (Jacques Gaultier); 21. Cloches (Jacques Gaultier); 22. Cupid once, when weary grown (Pelham Humfrey); 23. Oh! That I had but a fine man (Pelham Humfrey); 24. O Love, if e'er thou'lt ease a heart (Pelham Humfrey); 25. How severe is forgetful old age (Pelham Humfrey); 26. If grief has any pow'r (Henry Purcell); 27. When first Amintas sued for a kiss (Henry Purcell); 28. Music for a while (Henry Purcell); 29. Farewell, all joys! (Henry Purcell) | Johanette Zomer (sop), Fred Jacobs (l, theorbo) | Channel Classics | CCS SA 26609 |
| Coronation Music for King James II | Blow | Lawes | Purcell | Child | Turner | 1. God spake sometime in visions (Blow); 2. Let thy hand be strengthened (Blow); 3. Zadok the priest (Henry Lawes); 4. My heart is inditing (Purcell); 5. I was glad (Purcell); 6. O Lord, grant the King a long life (Child); 7. Behold, O God our defender (Blow); 8. The King shall rejoice (Turner) | Choir of Westminster Abbey & Orchestra dir. Simon Preston | Archive | 419-163-2 |
| William Lawes | Dialogues, Psalms & Elegies | 1. Come heavy heart; 2. Charon, O Charon; 3. Charon, O gentle Charon, let me wooe thee; 4. Orpheus, O Orpheus, gently touch thy Lesbyan Lyre; 5. Tis not Boy, thy Amorous looke; 6. When death shall snatch us from these Kidds; 7. The Catts as other creatures doe; 8. Musicke, The Master of thy Art is dead; 9. How Like a widow?; 10. Why in this shade of night?; 11. Cease, O cease ye jolly shepherds (Jenkins); 12, Psalm 22 (Henry Lawes) | The Consort of Musickedir.Anthony Rooley | Explore | EXP0011 from L'Oiseau-Lyre DSLO 574 |
| 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 |