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| AlbumTitle | Subtitle | Works | Performers | Record Label | Catalog No |
| William Lawes | Consorts in Four and Five Parts | 1. Sett a5 in A; 2. Sett a5 in F; 3. Sett a5 in C; 4. Sett a5 in C; 5. Sett a5 in G; 6. Fantasy in C a4; 7. Air (Fantasy) in C a4; 8. Aire in C a4; 9. Aire in C a4; 10. Aire in C a4; 11. Aire in C a4; 12. Aire in C a4; | Phantasm | Channel Classics | CCS 15698 |
| William Lawes | Consorts in Six Parts | 1. Sett a 6 in g; 2. Sett a 6 in C; 3. Sett a 6 in F; 4. Sett a 6 in B flat; 5. Sett a 6 in c | Phantasm | Channel Classics | CCS 17498 |
| William Lawes | Consorts in Five and Six Parts | 1. Sett a 5 in g minor; 2. Sett a 5 in a minor; 3. Sett a 5 in c minor; 4. Sett a 5 in F major; 5. Sett a 5 in C major; 6. Sett a 6 in g minor; 7. Set a 6 in C major; 8. Sett a 6 in F major; 9. Sett a6 in B flat major; 10. Sett a 6 in c minor | Hesperion XXI | AliaVox | AV 9823 |
| William Lawes | The Royal Consort Suites | 1.Suite No. 1 in D minor; 2. Suite No. 2 in D minor; 3. Suite No. 3 in D minor; 4. Suite No. 4 in D Major; 5. Suite No. 5 in D Major; 6. Suite No. 6 in D Major; 7. Suite No. 7 in A minor; 8. Suite No. 8 in C Major; 9. Suite No. 9 in F Major; 10. Suite No. 10 in B Flat Major | The Purcell Quartet with Nigel North, Paul O'Dette (theorbos) | Chandos | CHAN 0584/5 |
| William Lawes | Fantasia Suites for two violins, bass viol & organ | 1. Sett no. 1 in G min.; 2. Sett no. 2 in G maj.; 3. Sett no. 3 in A min.; 4. Sett no. 4 in C maj.; 5. Sett no. 5 in D min.; 6. Sett no. 6 in D maj.; 7. Sett no. 7 in D min.; 8. Sett no. 8 in D maj. | London Baroque | Harmonia Mundi | HMA 1901423 |
| William Lawes | Sonatas (Fantasia Suites) for violin, bass viol & organ | 1. Sett no. 1 in G min.; 2. Sett no. 2 in G maj.; 3. Sett no. 3 in A min.; 4. Sett no. 4 in C maj.; 5. Sett no. 5 in D min.; 6. Sett no. 6 in D maj.; 7. Sett no. 7 in D min.; 8. Sett no. 8 in D maj. | London Baroque | Harmonia Mundi | HMA 1901493 |
| Five- and Six-Part Fantasies of William Lawes | 1. Set a 6 in C maj.; 2. Set a 5 in A min.; 3. Set a 5 in F maj.; 4. Set a 5 in C maj.; 5. Set a 5 in C min.; 6. Set a 6 in G min. | The Oberlin Consort of Viols | Classic Masters | CMCD-1015 | |
| William Lawes | Consort Music for Viols, Lutes and Theorbos | 1. Set a 4 in G minor (for 2 Theorbos); 2. Consort Set a 5 in C Major; 3. Royal Consort in D minor (for 2 Theorbos); 4. Pieces for Two Lutes; 5. Divisions on a Pavan in G minor; 6. Consort Set a 5 in A minor; 7. Royal Consort in D Major (for 2 Theorbos) | Timothy Roberts (org); Jacob Herlingman, David Miller (l, theorbo); Royal Consort of Viols | Naxos | 8.550601 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| The Singing Club | Ravenscroft, Lawes, Purcell, Arne | 1. A round of three country dances in one (Thomas Ravenscroft); 2. There were three ravens (Thomas Ravenscroft); 3. Call George again, boys (John Hilton); 4. Drink tonight of the moonshine bright (William Lawes); 5. She weepeth sore in the night (William Lawes); 6. Dainty fine aniseed water (William Lawes ); 7. Where the bee sucks, there suck I (John Wilson); 8. Gather ye rosebuds while ye may (William Lawes); 9. Tis women makes us love, Z 281 (Henry Purcell); 10. Sir Walter enjoying his damsel, Z 273 (Henry Purcell); 11. Inigo Jones (Anon.); 12. Epitaph (Jonathan Battishill); 13. The Singing Club (Thomas Augustine Arne ); 14. Foresters sound the cheerful horn (Henry Bishop); 15. To soften care (Thomas Augustine Arne); 16. To Anacreon in Heaven (John Stafford Smith); 17. Elegy on the death of Mr. Shenstone (Thomas Augustine Arne); 18. Much Ado about Nothing: Sigh no more, ladies (Thomas Augustine Arne); 19. There is a paradise on earth (Robert Lucas Pearsall); 20. O who will o'er the downs so free (Robert Lucas Pearsall); 21. Sweet and Low (Joseph Barnby) | The Hilliard Ensemble dir. Paul Hillier | Harmonia Mundi | HMA 1951153 |
| Simpson | Jenkins | Lawes | Purcell | Tomkins | Two upon a Ground | 1. Division in A (Simpson); 2. Division in F (Simpson); 3. Voluntary (Tomkins); 4. Division in F (Simpson); 5. Division in C (Finger); 6. Division in C (Jenkins); 7. La Pompe Funèbre (Ennemond Gaultier); 8. Fantazia (Locke); 9. Courant (Locke); 10. Division in G (Simpson); 11. Sonata solo in G (Finger); 12. Loves farewell (Hume); 13. Suite in g (Lawes); 14. Prelude (Tomkins); 15. What if a day (Tomkins); 16. Worster Brawls (Tomkins); 17. Pavan (Hume); 18. Two in one upon a ground (Purcell); 19. Division in A (Jenkins) | Charivari Agréable: Susanne Heinrich (viols), Kah-Ming Ng (keyboard), Linda Sayce (lutes), with Susanna Pell (viols) | Signum | SIGCD007 |
| Henry Purcell and His Time | 17th Century English Chamber Music | 1. Suite IV fron the Broken Consort (Locke); 2. Consort Suite VII (Lawes); 3. Fantasia (Jenkins); 4. Prelude and Divisions on a Ground (Simpson); 5. Suite III from the Broken Consort (Locke); 6. Divisions on John come Kiss; 7. Pavan à 4 (Purcell); 8. Pavan à 3 (Purcell); 9. Three parts upon a ground (Purcell) | Scaramouche: Andrew Manze, Caroline Balding (vln), Ulrike Wild (hpsd, org), Jaap ter Linden (bs viol) | Channel Classics | CCS 4792 |
| Hark! hark! the lark | Music for Shakespeare's Company | 1. Hark! hark! the lark (attrib. Robert Johnson); 2 Get you hence (attrib. Robert Johnson); 3. The Tempest (attrib. Robert Johnson); 4. Where the bee sucks (Robert Johnson); 5. Full fathom five (Robert Johnson); 6. Tell me, dearest (Robert Johnson); 7. Oh, let us howl (Robert Johnson); 8. Care-charming sleep, (Robert Johnson); 9. Almand in G major (Robert Taylor arr. Thomas Simpson); 10. The Noble Man (Anonymous arr. Johann Schop); 11. Fill See the chariot at hand (Anonymous); 12. Take, O take those lips away (John Wilson); 13. Am, arm! the scouts are come in (Robert Johnson); 14. 'Tis late and cold (Robert Johnson); 15. Come away, Hecate (Robert Johnson); 16. The Witches' Dance (attrib. Robert Johnson); 17. Suite in G minor (Simon Ives); 18. The blushing rose (Anonymous); 19. A bonny, bonny bird I have (John Wilson); 20. This lady ripe and fair (John Atkins); 21. Pavan in G minor (Simon Ives); 22. Why so pale and wan, fond lover? (William Lawes); 23. Hence, all ye vain delights (John Hilton); 24. A health to the northern lass (William Lawes); 25. Suite in C major (Simon Ives); 26. Come, my Daphne, come away (William Lawes); 27. Somnus, the humble god (William Lawes); 28 The cats, as other creatures do (William Lawes); 29. The Wagge (Simon Ives) | Catherine Bott, JuliaGooding(sop), Joseph Cornwell (ten), Stephen Carcoe (bar), The Parley of Instruments dir. Peter Holman | Hyperion | CDA66836 |
| A High Priz'd Noise | Violin Music for Charles I | 1. The Prince's Alman (Robert Johnson); 2. The Peince's Coranto (Robert Johnson); 3. Air in G minor (Robert Johnson); 4. Fantasia in G minor for three trebles (Robert Johnson); 5. The Temporiser (Robert Johnson); 6. The Witty Wanton (Robert Johnson); 7. Pavan in C major (Alfonso Ferrabosco II); 8. Alman in C major (Alfonso Ferrabosco II); 9. Alman in D minor (Maurice Webster); 10. Galliard in B flat major after Bocquet (Maurice Webster); 11. Echo No. 1 in D minor (Maurice Webster); 12. Echo No. 2 in G major (Maurice Webster); 13. Allamanda (Stephen Nau); 14. Galliarde (Stephen Nau); 15. Courante I (Stephen Nau); 16. Courante II (Stephen Nau); 17. Courante III (Stephen Nau); 18. Courante IV (Stephen Nau); 19. Sarabande (Stephen Nau); 20. Variations on the Ruggiero (Angelo Notari); 21. Alman in D major 'for the Violins of 2 Trebles' (William Lawes); 22. Ballet in F major (Stephen Nau); 23. Air in C minor (William Lawes); 24. Air in C minor (WilliamLawes); 25. Air in C major (William Lawes); 26. Air in C major (William Lawes); 27. Pavan in D minor (Stephen Nau); 28. Galliard in D minor (Stephen Nau) | The Parley of Instruments Renaissance Violin Banddir. Peter Holman | Hyperion | CDA66806 |
| Armada | Music from the courts of England and Spain | 1. Rejoice unto the Lord (Byrd); 2. Diferencias sobre "La dama le demanda" (Antonio de Cabezón); 3. Fantasia (Lopez); 4. Morenica dame (Miguel de Fuenllana); 5. Browning a 3 (Elway Bevin); 6. The Carman's Whistle, MB 36 (Byrd); 7. Psalmes, Sonets and Songs: Come to me, grief, forever (Byrd); 8. Trattado de glosas: Recercada secunda "sobre canto llano" (Diego Ortiz); 9. Fantasia à 5 "Susana un jur" (Hernando de Cabezón); 10. Fantasia de redobles (Miguel de Fuenllana); 11. In angel's weed (Byrd); 12. Dulce memoria (Hernando de Cabezón); 13. Diferencias sobre "La Milanesa" (Antonio de Cabezón); 14. Recercada tercera (Diego Ortiz); 15. Pandolpho 1 "Pour down, you pow'rs divine" (Parsons); 16. Fantasia a 4 (White); 17. Quiento hizo (Esteban Daza); 18. In Nomine a 5 (Picforth); 19. Almain "The Honiesuckle" (Anthony Holborne); 20. Pavan "Paradizo" (Anthony Holborne); 21. Coranto "Fairy Round" (Anthony Holborne); 22. Fantasia a 5 in C major (Byrd); 23. Lachrimae or Seaven Teares: M. Bucton his Galiard (Dowland); 24. Lachrimae or Seaven Teares: Captaine Piper his Galiard (Dowland); 25. Fantasy a 4 (Bull); 26. Lachrimae or Seaven Teares: Lachrimae antiquae (Dowland); 27. Lachrimae or Seaven Teares: M. Nicholas Gryffith his Galiard (Dowland); 28. In Nomine à 5 (Alfonso (II) Ferrabosco); 29. Fantasias (2) à 4 "for the great double bass": Excerpt(s) (Orlando Gibbons); 30. In Nomine à 5 (Orlando Gibbons); 31. Aires for 2 Division Viols in C major: Pavan of Alfonso (Lawes); 32. Aires for 2 Division Viols in C major: Almaine of Alfonso (Lawes); 33. My Ladye Nevalls Booke: A Fancie on C (Byrd); 34. Consort Sett à 5 in C major (Lawes) | Michael Chance (Countertenor), Christopher Wilson (Lute), Paul Nicholson (Harpsichord, Organ), Richard Booth (Bass Viola da gamba), Fretwork | Virgin Veritas | 7243 5 61821 2 7 |
| Consortmusik auf Originalinstrumenten | 1. Suite No 1 in C a 4; others by Coperario, Simpson, Dowland, Purcell | Leonhardt Consortdir.Gustav Leonhardt (hsd) | Das Alte Werk | SAWT 9576-B (LP) | |
| Altenglische Consortmusik | 1. Sedet sola; 2. Galliard; 3. Pavana ploravit; 4. The faire-round; others by Alison, Holborne, Lawes, Coperario, Strowgers, Ferrabosco II, Robert Johnson, Morley | Konrad Ragossnig (l), The Linde-Consort | EMI-Reflexe | 1C063-30 105 (LP) | |
| William Lawes | Royall Consorts | Sett for three Lyra Viols | 1. Sett No. 7 in A min.; 2. Sett No. 1 in D min.; 3. Sett for three Lyra Viols; 4. Sett No. 8 in C maj. | The Consort of Musickedir.Anthony Rooley | L'Oiseau-Lyre | DSLO 573 (LP) |
| William Lawes | Viol Consort Music | 1. Sett No. 3 in F maj.; 2. Sett No. 3 in C min.; 3. Sett No. 2 in A min.; 4. Sett No. 4 in B Flat maj.. | The Consort of Musickedir.Anthony Rooley | L'Oiseau-Lyre | DSLO 560 (LP) |