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The Trinity Carol Roll (Trinity College, Cambridge) is the earliest known source for the English polyphony carol. The thirteen works preserved therein include the patriotic "Agincourt" carol,...

Anonymous / Roberts / Stras / Roberts / Ely Lucrezia Borgia'S Daughter CD1. Tribulationes Civitatum Audivimus 2. Suscipe Verbum, Virgo Maria 3. Haec Dies Quam Fecit Dominus 4. Ego Sum Panis Vitae 5...

Based on a major new discovery, this recording features the complete setting of the Lamentations of Jeremiah for Good Friday by Antoine Brumel, one of the most celebrated composers of the Renaissance...

Croft / Choir Of Sidney Sussex College Cambridge William Croft: Burial Service & Anthems CD1. Sing Praises to the Lord 2. Voluntary No. 8 in C Major 3. Hear My Prayer, O Lord 4. O Lord God of My...

Anne Boleyn is without doubt the most famous of Henry VIII's six wives. She was brought up for a time under the guardianship of Margaret of Austria, who was patron to some of the most famous...

Among the musical treasures in the British Library is a sumptuous choirbook prepared for Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon. It was produced by Petrus Alamire, who not only headed one of the finest...

Johann Heinrich Schmelzer was a leading violin virtuoso in mid-seventeenth-century Europe, highly favored by Holy Roman Emperors Ferdinand III and Leopold I. His six Sonat? unarum fidium (Sonatas for...

Schoenberg's 'Variations on a Recitative' were first published in 1943 in an edition which gave very detailed performance instructions based on the 1928 Skinner Organ in Princeton University Chapel...

The place of Domenico Scarlatti in the history of 18th century music is certainly exceptional. This exquisite and imaginative group of works is included in the fourteenth volume of Scarlatti's...

Tallis / Alamire / Skinner Songs Of Reformation CD

Thomas Weelkes was a notorious drunkard and blasphemer, in regular conflict with the authorities of Chichester Cathedral where he was organist, Informator Choristarum, and a singing-man from 1602...