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| AlbumTitle | Subtitle | Works | Performers | Record Label | Catalog No |
| Matthew Locke | The Broken Consort | 1. The Broken Consort - Part 1 (1661); 2. Duos for Two Bass Viols; 3. Fantasia and Corant in D minor | The Parley of Instruments dir. Peter Holman | Helios | CDH 55255 |
| Matthew Locke | Consorts in Two Parts | 1. Symphonia; 2. Suite No 1 in G minor - major; 3. Suite No 2 in B-flat major; 4. Gallarde Faraboischo; 5. Suite No 3 in D minor - major; 6. Suite No 4 in E minor; 7. La Pertenisse; 8. Suite No 5 in F major; 9. Suite No 6 in A minor - major; 10. Almande Maschera; 11. Suite No 7 in C minor - major; 12. Suite No 8 in D minor; 13. Modulato | Masques: Timothy Haig (bar vln); Elin Söderström (bs viol); Olivier Fortin (chamber org) | Dorian | DOR-90300 |
| Matthew Locke | The English Orpheus Vol 3 - Locke: Anthems, Motets, and Ceremonial Music | 1. Super flumina Babylonis; 2. Audi, Domine clamantes ad te; 3. Jesu auctor clementie; 4. Descende caelo cincta sororibus "Oxford Ode"; 5. How doth the city sit solitary; 6. O be joyful in the Lord; 7. Lord, let me know mine end; 8. Be thou exalted, Lord | Choir of New College, Oxford The Parley of Instruments dir. Edward Higginbotham | Helios | CDH 55250 |
| 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 Gautier); 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 |
| Coronation Music for Charles II | 22 April 1661 | 1. The song called trumpets (Parsons); 2. L'Entrée, A Cheval, Cavalcade & Double Cavalcade, La Retraite (Mersenne); 3. 5-part things for the cornetts (Locke); 4. Entrata Imperiale (Fantini); 5. O Lord, grant the King a long life (William Child); 6. In nomine à 5 (Byrd); 7. The King shall rejoice (Humfrey) 8. Miserere à 4 (Byrd); 9. Te Deum: "The King" (Humfrey); 10. Pavana à 5, Galliarda à 5, Pavana à 5, Galiarda & Coranto à 5 (Augustine Bassano); 11. Fantazia 2 à 6 (William Lawes); 12. Pavan à 6 (Augustine Bassano); 13. Almand à 6 (Anon.); 14. Browning à 5 "The leaves be green" (Byrd); 15. Courtly Masquing Ayres à 5 Nos 19-21 (John Adson) | Psallentes, Oltremontano dir. Wim Becu | Accent | ACC24300 |
| Four and Twenty Fiddlers | Music for the Restoration Court Violin Band | 1. Curtain Tune in C major (Locke); 2. Incidental music for Thomas Shadwell's operatic version of Shakespeare's play 'The Tempest' (Locke/Robert Smith); 3. Suite of Brawles in B flat (Locke); 4. Suite in G minor (Locke); 5. Curtain Tune in D major (Locke); 6. The Musick att the Bath (Banister); 7. Incidental Music for Rochester's play 'Valentinian' (Grabu); 8. Concert of Venus from 'Albion and Albanus' (Grabu); 9. The Staircase Overture in B flat (Purcell); 10. Chacony in G minor (Purcell) | The Parley of Instruments Renaissance Violin Banddir.Peter Holman | Hyperion | CDA 66667 |
| 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 |
| How The World Wags | Social music for a 17th-century Englishman | 1. JAMAICA or The Jovial Broom Man, or a Kent Soldier's exact relation of all his Travels in Every Nation, his Famous Acts are all Shown Here as in this Story doth appear (Anon.) 2. GALLIARD (Maurice Webster) 3. WHO LIVETH SO MERRY (Thomas Ravenscroft) 4. THE SAINT TURNED SINNER or The Dissenting Parson's Text Under the Quaker's Petticoats (Anon.) 5. AYRE from Little Consort Suite No 1 in G minor (Matthew Locke) 6. MARTIN SAID TO HIS MAN (Thomas Ravenscroft) 7. THE MILLER OF DEE (Anon.) 8. PACKINGTON'S POUND (Anon.) 9. POX ON YOU FOR A FOP (Henry Purcell) 10. THE HUNT IS UP (John Bennet) 11. ALMAIN (Cuthbert Hely) 12. THE JOLLY BARBER or The Barber fitted by a Wanton Miss of the Town (Anonymous) 13. AS I WALKED FORTH or The Deceased Maiden Lover (Robert Johnson) 14. SELDOM CLEANLY to the tune 'Upon a Summer's Time' (Martin Parker) 15. SONATA IN G (William Croft) 16. TOMORROW THE FOX WILL COME TO TOWN (Thomas Ravenscroft) 17. THE WINCHESTER WEDDING (Thomas D'Urfey) 18. SARABAND from Little Consort Suite No 2 in C major (Matthew Locke) 19. GATHER YOUR ROSEBUDS (William Lawes) 20. A BELLMAN'S SONG (Thomas Ravenscroft) | The City Waites | Helios | CDH55013 |
| Musickes Sweetest Joyes | Simpson | Dowland | Hume | Locke | 1. Prelude in D (Christopher Simpson); 2. Divisions on a Ground (Simpson); 3. Prelude in e minor (Simpson); 4. Divisions on a Ground (Simpson); 5. A Pavin (Robert Jones); 6. Coranto (Corkine); 7. The Punckes Delight (Corkine); 8. A Pavin (Corkine); 9. Coranto (Corkine); 10. "Cease Leaden Slumber" (Hume); 11. Goode againe (Hume); 12. "What greater griefe" (Hume); 13. A Polish Ayre (Hume); 14. "Fain would I change that note" (Hume); 15. Preludium (Dowland); 16. "Go nightly cares" (Dowland); 17. (A piece without a title)(Dowland); 18. Coranto (Dowland); 19. "Lasso mia vita" (Dowland); 20. "Like hermit poor" (Lanier); 21. Suite in C minor/Major (Locke) | Johanette Zomer (s); Peter Kooij (b), Mieneck van der Velden, Jaap ter Linden (v da g), Fred Jacobs (l) | Channel Classics | CCS 21204 |
| The Cries of London | 1. Muy Linda: Galliard (Anthony Holborne); 2. The Country Cries (Richard Dering); 3. Courtly Masquing Ayres (31): no 1 (John Adson); 4. Almain "Fruit of Love" (Anthony Holborne); 5. Playfellow no 2 "Wanton" (Anthony Holborne); 6. Cryes of London (Orlando Gibbons); 7. Pavans, Galliards, Almaines (65): The Funerals (Anthony Holborne); 8. Pavans, Galliards, Almaines (65): The choise (Anthony Holborne); 9. Pavans, Galliards, Almaines (65): Galliard (Anthony Holborne); 10. Courtly Masquing Ayres (31): no 8 (John Adson); 11. The Cry of London (Anonymous); 12. Pavan for Lute no 3 "Sedet Sola" (Anthony Holborne); 13. Pavans, Galliards, Almaines (65): The Fairie-round (Anthony Holborne); 14. Cries of London (Thomas Weelkes); 15. Opusculum neuer Pavanen, Galliarden, Couranten und Volten: Pavan (Thomas Simpson); 16. Opusculum neuer Pavanen, Galliarden, Couranten und Volten:Galliard (Thomas Simpson); 17. Opusculum neuer Pavanen, Galliarden, Couranten und Volten: Courante (Thomas Simpson); 18. Opusculum neuer Pavanen, Galliarden, Couranten und Volten: Volta (Thomas Simpson); 19. Cor mio, deh non languire (John Ward); 20. Consort piece à 6 "Di sei soprani" (William Daman); 21. Fantasia for 6 Bass Viols (Alfonso Ferrabosco); 22. Madrigal for six voices: If sorrow might (Richard Dering); 23. Music for His Majesty's Cornetts and Sackbutts: Suite in D minor (Matthew Locke); 24. Music for His Majesty's Cornetts and Sackbutts: Suite in F major (Matthew Locke) | Les Sacqueboutiers | Ambroisie | 9965 | |
| Purcell | Complete Organ Works | 1. Voluntary in G major, Z. 720; 2. Voluntary in d minor for Double Organ, Z. 719; 3. Verse in F major, Z. 716; 4. Voluntary in C major, Z. 717; 5. Voluntary in d minor, Z. 718; 7. A Ground in Gamut [in G major], Z. 645; 8. March in C major, ZT. 687, from The Married Beau; 9. Trumpet Tune in C major, ZT. 698, from The Indian Queen; 10. Chaconne in g minor, ZT. 680, from Timon of Athens; 11. Trumpet Tune in C major, called the Cibell, ZT. 678; 12. Ground in c minor, ZD. 221 (sometimes attrib. William Croft); 13. Voluntary on the Old 100th, Z. 721 (poss. Blow); 15. Trumpet Voluntary in D major (?Blow); Six Organ Voluntaries (Blow); Seven Voluntaries from Melothesia (1673), "For the Organ" (Matthew Locke) | John Burr (org) | Harmonia Mundi | HMU 907103 |