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| AlbumTitle | Subtitle | Works | Performers | Record Label | Catalog No |
| The First Booke of Ayres 1600 | To Sing And Play To The Lute, with The Base Viole | 1. A Painted Tale; 2. Thyrsis and Milla; 3. With My Love; 4. I Saw My Lady Weeping; etc. | Nigel Rogers, (t);N. Harnoncourt, (v da g); E. Dombois(l) | Das Alte Werke | SAWT 9568-B(LP) |
| The Silver Swan | English Madrigals | 1. Arise, awake; 2. Besides a fountain; 3. No, no, no, no, Nigella; 4. Singing alone; 5. With my love; ten others, other works by Gibbons, Wilbye | The Consort of Musickedir.Anthony Rooley | Decca | 458 093-2 |
| Heavenly Noyse | English Music For Mixed Consort From The Golden Age | 1. Joyne Hands; 2. The Sacred End Pavan; 3. Now Is The Month of May; 4. Fantasia: Il Lamento; other works by Byrd, Dowland, Campion, Holborne, Allison, Hume, Phillips, Lupo etc. | Dowland Consort dir.Jakob Lindberg (l) | Bis | CD-451 |
| English Music For The Virginal circa 1600 | 1. Nancie; 2. Fantasia; other works by Bull, Farnaby, etc. | Gustav Leonhardt (virg., hpsd) | Das Alte Werke | SAWT 9491-A(LP) | |
| Dances For Broken Consort from "First Booke of Consort Lessons," 1599 | 1. Lavolto; 2. La Corante; 3. Mounsieur's Almain (Byrd); etc. | The Morley Consort dir.David Munrow | Testament | SBT 1080 | |
| The Ladyes Delight--Entertainment Music of Elizabethan England | incl. work fr. The First book of Consort Lessons | 1. Lavolto; 2. La Corante; 3. The Lord Souches Maske; 4. Sola Soletta; 5. My Lorde of Oxenfords Maske; 6. O Mistris Mine; and other works | The Baltimore Consort | Dorian | DOR-90252 |
| Italian and English Madrigals | 1. Cantiam lieti cantiamo (Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi); 2. E d'un bel matin d'amore (Antonio Caprioli); 3. Quella bella e biancha mano (Antonio Caprioli); 4. Una leggiadra nimpha (Antonio Caprioli); 5. Venite amanti insieme (Loyset Compere); 6. Divini occhi sereni (Philippe Verdelot); 7. Con l'angelico riso, (Philippe Verdelot); 8. Madonna, il tuo bel viso (Philippe Verdelot); 9. Fuggi, fuggi, cor mio (Philippe Verdelot); 10. Si liet' e grata morte (Philippe Verdelot); 11. Se la dura durezza in la mia donna); (Jacques Arcadelt); 12. Ahime, dov' è'l bel viso); (Jacques Arcadelt); 13. Madonna, s'io v'offendo (Jacques Arcadelt); 14. Il bianco e dolce cigno (Jacques Arcadelt); 15. Donne, venète al ballo (Francesco Patavino); 16. Morir non può il mio cuore (Maddalena Casulana); 17. Se la mia vita (Luca Marenzio); 18. Mia benigna fortuna (Cipriano de Rore); 19. Anchor che col partire (Cipriano de Rore); 20. O sonno (Cipriano de Rore); 21. Chi la Gagliarda (Giovanni Domenico del Giovane da Nola); 22. Madonna mia famme bon'offerta (Adriaan Willaert); 23. Medici noi siamo (Giovanni Domenico del Giovane da Nola); 24. Quandro sarà mai quel zorno (Vincenzo Bell'Haver); 25. Matona mia cara (Roland de Lassus); 26. Tri ciechi siamo (Giovanni Domenico del Giovane da Nola); 27. O Griefe, Even on the Bud (Thomas Morley); 28. When, Loe, by Breake of Morning (Thomas Morley); 29. Aprill Is in My Mistris Face (Thomas Morley); 30. Thule the period of cosmographie (Thomas Weelkes); 31. Sweet Nimphe, Come to Thy Lover (Thomas Morley); 32. Sweet Hony Sucking Bees, madrigal (John Wilbye); 33. Miraculous Love's Wounding (Thomas Morley); 34. Adew, Sweet Amarillis (John Wilbye); 35. Weep, O mine Eyes (John Bennet); 36. Silver Swanne (Orlando Gibbons); 37. O care wilt thou dispatch mee); (Thomas Weelkes); 38. Since Robin Hood (Thomas Weelkes); 39. Fyre and Lightning from Heaven (Thomas Morley); 40. Strike it up tabor, madrigal (Thomas Weelkes); 41. See, See the Shepheards' Queene (Thomas Tomkins); 42. Come, Sable Night (John Ward); 43. Sweet Suffolke Owle (Thomas Vautor); 44. In Nets of Goulden Wyers (Thomas Morley); 45. Draw on Sweet Night (John Wilbye); | The Hilliard Ensemble | Virgin Veritas x2 | 7243 5 61671 2 | |
| The Triumphs of Oriana | Compiled by Thomas Morley | 1. The Lady Oriana (John Wilbye); 2. Sing, Shepherds All (Richard Nicholson); 3. Lightly She Whipped O'er The Dales (John Mundy); 4. Calm Was The Air And Clear The Sky (Richard Carlton); 5. Fantasia No. 2 (Holborne); 6. Hence Stars Too Dim Of Light (Michael East)_ ; 7. Come, Gentle Swains And Shephards' Dainty Daughters (Michael Cavendish); 8. With Angel's Face And Brightness (Daniel Norcombe); 9. The Nymphs And Shepherds Danced (George Marson); 10. Galliard (Holborne); 11. All Creatures Now Are Merry Merry-Minded (John Bennett); 12. Fair Nymphs, I Heard One Telling (John Farmer); 13. Fair Oriana, Seeming To Wink At Folly set by (Robert Jones); 14. The Fauns And Satyrs Tripping (Thomas Tomkins); 15. Galliard No.8 (Holborne); 16. Round About Her Charret, With All-admiring Strains (Ellis Gibbons); 17. With Wreaths Of Rose And Laurel (William Cobbold); 18. Thus Bonny-boots The Birthday Celebrated (John Holmes); 19. Long Live Fair Oriana. (Hark did you ever hear?) (Ellis Gibbons); 20. Fantasia No. 3 (Holborne); 21. Arise, Awake, Awake (Thomas Morley); 22. Hark! Did Ye Ever Hear So Sweet A Singing? (Thomas Hunt); 23. Fair Orian In The Morn (John Milton); 24. With Angel's Face And Brightness (George Kirbye); 25. Come, Blessed Bird (Edward Johnson); 26. Galliard (Byrd); 27. Hard By A Crystal Fountain (Thomas Morley); 28. Fair Oriana, Beauty's Queen (John Hilton); 29. Fair Cytherea Presents Her Doves (John Lisley); 30. As Vesta Was From Latmos Hill Descending (Thomas Weelkes) | I Fagiolini | Chandos Chaconne | CHAN 0682 |
| The Triumphs of Oriana | Madrigals 1600 | 1. Arise, Awake, Awake; 2. Hard By A Crystal Fountain; other works by East, Tomkins, Weelkes, Wilbye, Johnson, etc. | Pro Cantione Antiqua, London dir.Ian Partridge | Archiv | 2533 347(LP) |
| Greensleeves | A Collection of English Lute Songs | 1. It Was A Lover And His Lass; other works by Dowland, Rosseter, Campion, Holborne, Cavendish, etc | Julianne Baird (s); Ronn McFarlane (l) | Dorian | DOR-90126 |
| The English Lute Song | 1. April is in My Mistress' Face; other works by Dowland, Johnson, Campion, Ferrabosco, Brewer, Lanier, etc | Julianne Baird (s); Ronn McFarlane (l) | Dorian | DOR-90109 | |
| Blockflötenmusik der Renaissance | Recorder Music--England | 1. Fantasy of two parts; 2. Fantasia: La Torello; other works by Henry VIII, Taverner, Tye, Bull, Holborne, Ferrabosco II, Ward, Coperario, Lupo, Brade | Wiener Blockflötenensemble | Das Alte Werke | 6.42356AW(LP) |
| Byrd, Morley, Holborne, Purcell, u. a. | Englische Musik für Blockflöten und Gamben-Consort | 1. La Girandola; 2. Il Lamento; 3. La Caccia; other works by Holborne, Taverner, Tye, Gibbons, Byrd, Bevin, Simpson, Jeffreys, Purcell | Brüggen-consortdir.Frans Brüggen | Das Alte Werke | 6.41074AS(LP) |
| Madrigals of Thomas Morley | 1. Now is the month of maying; 2. In dew of roses; 3. Shoot, false Love, I care not; 4. Miraculous love's wounding!; 15 others | The Deller Consortdir.Alfred Deller | Bach Guild (Vanguard) | HM4 SD(LP) | |
| "Heavenly Noyse" | English Music for Mixed Consort from the Golden Age | 1. Joyne Hands; 2. 11/1 The Sacred End Pavan; 3. Now is the Month of May; 4. Fantasia: Il Lamento; others by Byrd, Allison, Philips, Campion, Nicholson, Lupo, Baxter, Holborne, Hume, Dowland | Dowland Consortdir.Jakob Lindberg | Bis | CD-451 |
| The Golden Age of English Cathedral Music | 1. Out of the Deep; other works by Weelkes, Byrd, Tallis, Gibbons, Taverner | James Lancelot, Winchester Cathedral Choirdir.Martin Neary, Viols of the Consort of Musicke | ASV Gaudeamus | GAU 119 | |
| Thou knowest, Lord, the secrets of our hearts | Funeral Music and Laments from 16th and 17th century England | 1. Man That Is Born Of A Woman (Funeral Music for Queen Mary); 2. In The Midst Of Life (Funeral Music for Queen Mary); 3. Thou knowest, Lord, The Secrets Of Our Hearts; 4. I Heard A Voice From Heaven (Funeral Music for Queen Mary); other works by Weelkes, Tomkins, Gibbons, Locke, Purcell, Croft, Greene | Choir of Christ's College, Cambridge dir. David Rowland | Meridian | CDE 84363 |
| 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 |
| Elizabethan Lute Songs and Solos | 1. Thyrsis and Milla; 2. Come, Sorrow, come; 3. It was a lover and his lass; others by Dowland, Campion, Rosseter, Cutting | Frank Patterson (ten), Robert Spencer (l) | Philips | 6500 282 (LP) | |
| The Golden Age of English Lute Music | 1. Pavan; others by John Johnson, Cutting, Dowland, Rosseter, Robert Johnson, Bulman, Batchelar, Holborne | Julian Bream (l) | RCA Victor | LD 2560 (LP) | |
| English Music for the Virginal | circa 1600 | 1. Nancie; 2. Fantasia; others by Tisdall, Bull, Byrd, Randall, Farnaby, Gibbons | Gustav Leonhardt (vl and hsd) | Das Alte Werke | SAWT 9491-A (LP) |
| 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 |
| 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. Balowe; 2. Sola Soletta; others by Alison, Holborne, Lawes, Coperario, Strowgers, Ferrabosco II, Robert Johnson, Dowland | Konrad Ragossnig (l), The Linde-Consort | EMI-Reflexe | 1C063-30 105 (LP) | |
| Madrigale und Orgelmusik der Englischen Renaissance | 1. The Silver Swan (Gibbons); 2. Now is the month of maying (Morley | )others by Carleton, Tallis, Redford, Tomkins, Tye, Weelkes, Edwards, Byrd, Shelbye, Dowland, Blitheman,The London Ambrosian Singersdir.John McCarthy | Polyhymnia | 1995 (LP) | |
| Hochrenaissance | Serie M: Die Elisabethanische Epoche | 1. O Lord, I lift my heart to Thee (Gibbons); 2. Thus angels sung (Gibbons); 3. Fantasia 1 a 3 (Gibbons); 4. Almighty and everlasting God (Gibbons); 5. O my love, how comely now (Gibbons); 6. Fantasia "In nomine" a 5 (Gibbons); 7. O Lord, increase my faith (Henry Loosemore); 8. This is the record of John (Gibbons); 9. What is our life? (Gibbons); 10. Fantasia II a 3 (Gibbons); 11. The silver swan (Gibbons); 12. Fantasia a 4 (Gibbons); 13. The Cries of London (Gibbons); 14. Good love, the fly thou to her (Morley); 15. Farewell, disdainful (Morley); 16. Farewell, disdainful (Morley); 17. Hark, jolly shepherds, hark (Morley); 18. Now is the gentle season/The fields abroad (Morley); 19. My lovely wanton jewel (Morley); 20. Sweet nymph, come to thy lover (Morley); 21. Stay, heart, run not so fast (Morley); 22. O grief, even on the bud (Morley) | Deller Consortdir. Alfred Deller, Gambenconsort der Schola Cantorum Basiliensis dir. August Wenzinger [1-14]; Ambrosian Singers dir. Denis Stevens [15-22] | Archiv Produktion | 14 056/00289 479 1351 |