Chamber , Consort Music

Byrd Edition Volume 5 - The Masses

David Skinner Cardinall's Musick, Andrew Carwood

Building a Library, December 2003, First Choice
Building a Library, June 2013, First Choice
Penguin Guide, Rosette

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Special offer. Byrd: Complete Consort Music

Phantasm, Laurence Dreyfus

Presto Recording of the Week, 13th June 2011
Gramophone Awards, 2011, Finalist - Early Music
BBC Music Magazine, August 2011, Disc of the month
Gramophone Magazine, September 2011, Editor's Choice

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The Visionaries of Piano Music | Works by William Byrd & John Bull

Kit Armstrong (piano)

Gramophone Magazine, July 2026, Critics' Choice 2021
Gramophone Magazine, August 2021, Editor's Choice
Presto Editor's Choice, August 2021
Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2021
Presto Recording of the Week, 17th December 2021

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Thomas Tallis, Queen Katherine Parr & Songs of Reformation

Alamire with Fretwork, David Skinner

Presto Editor's Choice, November 2017
BBC Music Magazine, January 2018, Concerto Choice
BBC Music Magazine, January 2018, Recording of the Month
Limelight Magazine Recordings of the Year, 2018, Nominated - Vocal/Choral

Julian Bream plays Dowland and Bach

Edith Steinbauer (treble viol), Beatrice Reichert (alto viol), Frieda Litschauer (tenor viol), Ernst Knava (bass viol), Julian Bream (lute/guitar) The Golden Age Singers, Margaret Field-Hyde

Gramophone Magazine, October 2008, Re-issue of the Month

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New. John Dowland: Behold A Wonder Here

Lautten Compagney

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Special offer. The Art of Melancholy | Songs by John Dowland

Iestyn Davies (countertenor), Thomas Dunford (lute)

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Tom and Will | Weelkes & Byrd: 400 Years

Christopher Bruerton, Edward Button, Jonathan Howard, Julian Gregory, Patrick Dunachie, Nick Ashby, King's Singers, Fretwork

BBC Music Magazine, February 2023, Choral & Song Choice
Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023

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Dowland: Lachrimae, or Seaven Teares

Fretwork

Building a Library, May 2003, First Choice
Building a Library, October 2017, Also Recommended

Jenkins, J: Consort Music for Four Parts

On Byrd's Wings

Dorothee Mields (performer), Magdalene Harer (performer), Ryosuke Sakamoto (lute), Boreas Quartett Bremen, Hathor Consort

International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Baroque Vocal

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Fretwork

BBC Music Magazine, June 2018, Chamber Choice

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Thomas Tallis - Complete Works Volume 9 | Instrumental Music and Songs

Andrew Benson-Williams (organ), Laurence Cummings (virginals), Lynda Sayce (lute), Stephen Taylor (counter tenor) Charivari Agréable, Chapelle du Roi, Alistair Dixon

Gramophone Magazine, December 2004, Editor's Choice

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Special offer. Tessier - Carnets de voyages

Le Poème Harmonique, Vincent Dumestre

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Coming soon. Seven Tears

Thélème, Jean-Christophe Groffe, Sting

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Special offer. Dowland: Lachrimae

Les Voix Humaines Consort of Viols, Nigel North

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William Byrd - Consort Songs

Emma Kirkby (soprano) Fretwork

BBC Music Magazine, May 2005, Choral & Song Choice

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Crystal Tears (+free dvd) | John Dowland & his contemporaries

Andreas Scholl (countertenor), Julian Behr (lute) Concerto di Viole

Presto Recording of the Week, 26th May 2008

Edward Power Biggs plays Historic Organs of Europe

Masters of the Lute

Matthew Wadsworth (lute)

Gramophone Magazine, December 2006, Editor's Choice

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E. Power Biggs (organ)

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Recorder Quartet | Early Italian Recorder Music & English Consort Music

Flanders’ Recorder Quartet 'Vier op ’n Rij'

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The Honour of William Byrd

Helen Charlston (mezzo-soprano), Ibrahim Aziz, Alison Kinder, Kate Conway, Sam Stadlen, Jennifer Bullock, Harry Buckoke, Chelys Consort of Viols

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Elizabethan Virginals Music

Sophie Yates (virginals)

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The Golden Age of Lute Music

Dowland - Lute Songs

James Bowman (countertenor) & Robert Spencer (lute)

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Julian Bream (lute)

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In Search of Dowland: Consort Music of John Dowland & Carl Rütti

bFIVE Recorder Consort

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Special offer. Ferrabosco, A I: Consort Music, etc.

Rose Consort of Viols

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Lachrimae

Jadran Duncumb (lute), Alberto Rasi, Accademia Strumentale Italiana

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Ferrabosco, A II: Consort Music for viols in 4, 5 & 6 parts

Hespèrion XXI, Jordi Savall

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Mark Hambourg - Encores & Rarities | A selection of his HMV recordings from 1910 to 1935

Mark Hambourg (piano)

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Dowland: Lachrimae, or Seaven Teares

Hespèrion XX, Jordi Savall

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English Renaissance Lute Music

Pascal Boëls, Domenico Cerasani (soloist), Yavor Genov (soloist), Oleg Timofeyev (soloist)

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Music Of The Spheres | English Consort Songs and Instrumental Music from the late 16th Century

Maarten Koningsberger (baritone), Mike Fentross (lute), Brisk Recorder Quartet

Byrd: Harpsichord Music

Aapo Hakkinen (harpsichord), Vernon Handley (harpsichord)

Sweete Musicke of Sundrie Kindes | English consort music from the 16th and 17th century

The Royal Wind Music, Paul Leenhouts

Flower of Cities All | Music in London 1580-1620

The English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble, William Lyons

The Three Elizabeths | A Musical Celebration of Britain through the Centuries

Catherine King (mezzo-soprano), Dorothy Linell (lute), Steven Rickards (countertenor), Shirley Rumsey (lute), Christopher Wilson (lute), Tessa Bonner (soprano), Royal Artillery Band, Rose Consort of Viols, RTÉ Concert Orchestra, Leeds Festival Chorus, English Northern Philharmonia, Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Choir of St John's College Cambridge, Major Geoffrey Kingston, Jeremy Summerly, Andrew Penny, Paul Daniel, Adrian Leaper, Christopher Robinson

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Canadian Brass Super Hits

The Canadian Brass, Berlin Philharmonic Brass, Martin Hackleman (horn), Norbert Hauptmann (horn), Ronald Romm (trumpet), Frederic Mills (trumpet), Konradin Groth (trumpet), Martin Kretzer (trumpet), Eugene Watts (trombone), Karl-Heinz Duse-Utesch (trombone), Martin Hackleman (french horn), George Segal (banjo), Frederic Mills (piccolo), David Ohanian (french horn), Ronald Romm (cornet), Ronald Romm (fluegelhorn), Frederick Mills (trumpet), Philip Smith (trumpet), Mark Gould (trumpet), Philip Myers (french horn), Joseph Alessi (trombone)

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Upstairs, Downstairs | Music from the Servants' Hall

Ian Giles, Jon Boden, John Spiers, Joey Oliver, Sara Stowe, Matthew Spring, Jon Banks, Marguerite Hutchinson, Jon Banks and Spiers and Boden Duo, Sarah Hill, Jon Bowden, Graham Metcalfe, Graham Metcalf, Dr Faustus, Serendipity, Broadside Band, The, Spiers and Boden Duo, Oxford Girls' Choir

William Byrd: Virginal & Consorts

Skip Sempé and Capriccio Stravagante, Capriccio Stravagante, Skip Sempé

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Recorders Greate and Smale | Music for the English Court Recorder Consort

Mezzaluna

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Parthenia, or the Maydenhead

Mary Jane Newman (harpsichord)

Dowland: Lute Works

Julian Bream (guitar), The Golden Age Singers

Dowland: Musicke for the Lute

Paul O'Dette (lute)

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Byrd: Sacred Works

Nicolas Haigh, Gerre Hancock, The Saint Thomas Choir of Men and Boys, Fifth Avenue, New York, Jeremy Filsell

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Elizabethan & Jacobean Lute Music

Stanley Buetens (lute)

Cynthia's Revels

The Flautadors Recorder Quartet

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Burst Forth, My Tears: The Music of John Dowland

Nigel North (lute), Dorothy Linell (lute), Jacob Heringman (lute), Catherine King (mezzo-soprano) Rose Consort of Viols, The

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Byrd: The Consort Music

Christopher Wilson (lute), Fretwork

A Concorde of Sweete Sound | Recorder Music from Renaissance England

Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet

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John Dowland: Lachrimae Or Seven Tears

Jordi Savall

Special offer. An English Sett for Trumpet

Jonathan Freeman-Attwood (trumpet) & Daniel-Ben Pienaar (piano)

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Art & Music: Bruegel - Music Of His Time | Incl. Works by Willaert, Susato, Janequin

Shirley Rumsey (guitar), Oxford Camerata, Convivium Musicum Gothenburgense, Scholars of London, Ensemble Villanella, Rose Consort of Viols, Jeremy Summerly

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Royal Delight | 17th-century English Ballads and Dances

The King's Noyse, David Douglass

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Byrd: Complete Fantasias for Harpsichord

Glen Wilson (harpsichord)

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English Music for a Renaissance Band

Piffaro

Lutz Kirchhof

Camarata of London, Glenda Simpson and Barry Mason

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The Shakespeare Concerts: Shakespeare's Memory

Miroslav Sekera (piano), Chad Sloan (baritone), Andrea Chenoweth (soprano), Kellie van Horn (mezzo-soprano), Ian Watson (piano), Justin Vickers (tenor), Maria Ferrante (soprano), Lydie Hartelova (harp), Ian Watson (harpsichord) Kalmia String Quartet