Recordings cited in the Music Edition

Agnew, P. (Tenor), and C. Wilson (Lute), (1999), Lanier: Hero & Leander (Metronome 1027)

Baird, .J. (Voice), and R. McFarlane (Lute) (2000), Shakespeare’s Music (Dorian Recordings DOR-90017)

Blaze, R. (Tenor/Countertenor), and E. Kenny (Lute, Theorbo) (2000), English Lute Songs (Hyperion 55249) (2007), Songs by Henry and William Lawes et al. (Hyperion, CDA67589)

Broadside Band (1993) English National Songs, J. Barlow (dir.) (Saydisc, Regis RRC 1337)

Capella Savaria (2010), T. A. Arne: Overtures and Cantatas, S. True (Soprano), Z. Megyesi (Tenor), M. Térey-Smith (cond.) (Centaur CRC 3072), Tracks 15–17: Overture

Cash, J. et al. (2006), Personal File (Legacy/Columbia 94265)

City Waites (1981; CD 1999), ‘How the world wags’: Social Music for a 17th-century Englishman, D. Wootton (dir.) (Helios CDH55013)

Deller, A. (Countertenor), A. Mandikian (Soprano), P. Pears (Tenor), G. Whitred (Soprano) (1998), The Brandenburg Concertos & 1953 Aldeburgh Festival Opening Concert, 2 CDs (Australian Eloquence CD 4429521), CD 2, Track 14: ‘Now all the air shall ring’ (the words of the chorus are changed to ‘God save the Queen’)

English Ayres [(J. Melia, C. Goodwin, et al.] (2010), The Laughing Cavalier (<www.magnatune.com>; digital release)

Fretwork, with M. Padmore and N. North (1999), Celestiall Witchcraft: The Private Music of Henry and Charles Princes of Wales (Virgin Veritas 45346)

Gooding, J. (Soprano), C. Cerasi (Harpsichord), C. Wilson (Lute and Theorbo) (2001), Music From The Time Of Vermeer ( Metronome 1051)

Hespèrion XXI (2003), Alfonso Ferrabosco the Younger: Consort Music to the Viols in 4, 5 & 6 Parts, J. Savall (dir.) (AliaVox AV 9832)

Isabella d’Este (1994), The Faces of Melancholy: Ayres both Grave and Light for Viols or other Musicall Instruments (Symphonia SY 93022)

King’s Noyse (1994), The King’s Delight: 17th-Century Ballads for Voice and Violins, D. Douglass (dir.) (Harmonia Mundi Fr. 907107)

Kirkby, E. (Soprano), and A. Rooley (Theorbo-lute) (2002), Classical Kirkby: Orpheus and Corinna, (Bis Records BIS-CD-1435)

Lindberg, J., and P. O’Dette (1984; CD reissue 1994), English Lute Duets (BIS-CD-267)

Ludwig Güttler Brass Ensemble (1994), English Brass Music of the 17th Century, Ludwig Güttler (dir.) (Capriccio Digital 10146)

Melia, J. (Soprano), and C. Goodwin (Lute, Baritone) (2003), The Last of Old England (Jeni Records JREC001; digital re-release on <www.magnatune.com>)

Musica Donum Dei (2005), Vocal and Chamber Music (16th-18th Centuries) (All the World's a Stage – Music composed for Shakespeare's plays or to celebrate his work) (The Gift of Music CCLCDG1110)

Musicians of the Globe (1997), Ben Jonson’s The Masque of Oberon, P. Pickett (dir.), editions and reconstructions by P. Holman and P. Downey (Philips Classics Productions 446 217-2)

Newberry Consort (2000), A Candle in the Dark: Elizabethan Songs & Consort Music, (Harmonia Mundi 907140)

North, N. (2010), Robert Johnson: The Princes Almain and other Dances for Lute (Naxos 8572178)

Padmore, M. (Tenor), and E. Kenny (Lute) (2008), Britten & Dowland: Lute Songs (Hyperion CDA67648)

Parley of Instruments (1997), Hark! hark! the lark: Music for Shakespeare's Company, P. Holman (dir.) (Hyperion CDA66836)

Parsons, D. (2002), Elizabethan Lute Music From Robert Dowland’s ‘Variete of Lute Lessons’, (Metronome 1050)

Pro Cantione Antiqua (1996), Musica Britannica, Mark Brown (dir.) (Deutsche Harmonia Mundi ‘Baroque Esprit’ 05472 77443 2; CD compilation and reissue)

Ricercar Consort (2001), Consort Music and Songs II: Alfonso Ferrabosco II , P. Pierlot (dir.), S. Hamilton (Soprano) (Ricercar 206) [reissued as Ricercar Consort, 2008]

(2008), Alfonso Ferrabosco, William Byrd: Consort Music , P. Pierlot (dir.), S. Hamilton (Soprano) (Ricercar 256) 

Sampson, C. (Soprano), and M. Wadsworth, M. (Lute) (2004), Away Delights: Lute solos and songs by Robert Johnson (Avie AV2053)

(2010), Not Just Dowland, recorded live at Wigmore Hall, London, 7 December 2008 (Wigmore Hall 3034)

Sarum Consort (2011), All the Queen’s Men: Music for Elizabeth I, Andrew Mackay (dir.) (Naxos 8.572582)

Scholl, A. (Countertenor) (2008), Crystal Tears: John Dowland and his Contemporaries, with Concerto di Viole (CD + DVD; Harmonia Mundi HMC901993)

Sting (Voice and Lute), and E. Karamazov (Lute) (2006), Songs of the Labyrinth (Deutsche Grammophon CD 170 3139)

Tragicomedia (1991), Orpheus I am, S. Stubbs (dir.) (EMI Classics CDC 7 54311 2)

Various artists (2001), The World of British Folk Songs, (Decca)

Wren Baroque Soloists (1994), Martin Peerson: Private Musicke, M. Elliott (dir.) (Collins Classics 1437-2)