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1. Robert Parsons: Sacred Music (2011)
performed by The Cardinall's Musick (choir, chorus), Andrew Carwood (conductor)
composed by Robert Parsons
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2. Robert Parsons: First Great Service; Responds for the Dead (2007)
performed by Amy Wood (soprano), Catherine Backhouse (soprano), Christopher Wardle (alto), Greg Hallam (bass), Matthew Venner (alto), Oliver-John Ruthven (cantor), Robin Bailey (tenor), Simon Whiteley (bass), William Balkwill (cantor), William Balkwill (tenor)
composed by Robert Parsons
Robert Parsons is something of a forgotten man of English Renaissance music, and annotator and conductor Barnaby Smith discusses in the booklet a ... More
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3. Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang (2012)
performed by Magnificat, Philip Cave (conductor)
composed by Robert Parsons, Robert White, William Byrd
The popular image of William Byrd hiding coded messages to his fellow Catholics in his music tends to obscure the fact that a good deal of music in ... More
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4. Treasures of Tudor England (2008)
performed by The Sixteen
composed by Christopher Tye, Robert Parsons, Robert White
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5. Elizabethan Consort Music (1998)
performed by Hespèrion XX, Jordi Savall (conductor)
composed by Anonymous, Anonymous, English, Clement Woodcock, Innocenzio Alberti, John Taverner, Nicholas Strogers, Robert Parsons, Robert White, William Daman, William Mundy
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6. Tune Thy Musicke to Thy Hart (2012)
performed by Benedict Hymas (tenor), Emilia Benjamin (viol), Fretwork, Stile Antico
composed by Giovanni Croce, John Amner, John Browne, John Dowland, John Taverner, Orlando Gibbons, Robert Parsons, Robert Ramsey, Thomas Campion, Thomas Tallis, Thomas Tomkins, William Byrd
So strong is the perceived distinction between public sacred works and private secular ones during the Renaissance that the pieces here have been ... More
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7. Four Temperaments: Byrd, Ferrabosco, Parsons, Tallis (2005)
performed by Asako Morikawa (bass viol), Asako Morikawa (tenor violin), Emilia Benjamin (bass viol), Phantasm
composed by Alfonso Ferrabosco, Robert Parsons, Thomas Tallis, William Byrd
Four Temperaments is the second disc for Avie by the splendid English viol quartet Phantasm led by expatriate American Laurence Dreyfus; the first, a ... More
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8. Faire is the Heaven: Music of the English Church (1988)
performed by Cambridge Singers (choir, chorus)
composed by Benjamin Britten, Charles Villiers Stanford, Dutch Traditional, Elizabeth Poston, Henry Purcell, Herbert Howells, Orlando Gibbons, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Richard Farrant, Robert Parsons, Thomas Tallis, William Byrd, William H. Harris, William Walton
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9. Waytes: English Music for a Renaissance Band
performed by Daphna Mor (recorder), Daphna Mor (percussion), Piffaro
composed by Alfonso Ferrabosco, Anonymous, Anonymous, English, Anonymous, Mulliner Book, Clement Woodcock, John Mundy, Robert Jones, Robert Parsons, Thomas Bateson, Thomas Tallis, Thomas Weelkes, Unspecified, William Byrd
The Philadelphia-based early music ensemble Piffaro, which has been around since 1982, has recorded a variety of CDs of Renaissance instrumental ... More
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10. Armada: Music from the Courts of England and Spain (2000)
performed by Christopher Wilson (lute), Christopher Wilson (vihuela), Elizabeth Liddle (strings), Julia Hodgson (strings), Michael Chance (counter tenor), Paul Nicholson (harpsichord), Paul Nicholson (organ), Richard Boothby (viol), Richard Boothby (bass viol)
composed by Alfonso Ferrabosco, Antonio de Cabezón, Antony Holborne, Diego Ortiz, Elway Bevin, Esteban Daza, Hernando de Cabezón, John Bull, John Dowland, Miguel de Fuenllana, Orlando Gibbons, Picforth, Robert Parsons, Robert White, Sebastián López de Velasco
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11. Masterpieces of Sacred Polyphony (1996)
performed by Adrian Peacock (bass), Alexander Semprini (treble), Francis Faux (treble), Joseph Cullen (organ), Raymond Winterflood (treble), Westminster Cathedral Choir (choir, chorus)
composed by Antonio Lotti, Christopher Tye, Claudio Monteverdi, Giovanni Gabrieli, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Gregorio Allegri, Lodovico Viadana, Peter Philips, Robert Parsons, Thomas Tallis, Tomás Luis de Victoria, William Byrd
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12. Miserere (2013)
performed by Peter Stevens (organ), William Gaunt (baritone), Westminster Cathedral Choir (choir, chorus)
composed by Colin Mawby, David Bevan, Francisco Guerrero, George Malcolm, Giovanni Croce, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Gregorian Chant, Plainchant, Robert Parsons, Thomas Tallis, William Byrd
The Choir of Westminster Cathedral is a working group that sings for services at that center of modern British Catholicism. Although it has the ... More
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13. In Nomine (1987)
performed by Fretwork
composed by Alfonso Ferrabosco, Christopher Tye, John Baldwine, John Bull, John Taverner, Robert Johnson, Robert Parsons, Thomas Preston, Thomas Tallis, William Byrd, William Cornysh
For music in the key of doleful, try this Amon Ra disc called In Nomine by the English ensemble Fretwork. Featuring entirely sixteenth century ... More
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14. The Gentlemen of the Chapel Royal (2002)
performed by Benjamin Bakker (counter tenor), Diapente Viol Consort, Siebe Henstra (organ), The Gents, Peter Dijkstra (conductor)
composed by Alfonso Ferrabosco, Antony Holborne, Edward Johnson, John Bennet, Robert Parsons, Robert White, Thomas Tallis, Thomas Tomkins, Thomas Weelkes, William Byrd, William Cornysh
Perhaps it's an example of a characteristically Dutch sense of humor to have a group called the Gents performing music by the Gentlemen of the Chapel ... More
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15. Byrd, Dowland: Ye Sacred Muses
performed by Eliza Consort, Jean-Michel Fumas (counter tenor)
composed by Anonymous, Giovanni Coprario, John Dowland, Philip Rosseter, Robert Parsons, William Byrd
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16. Music from the Chirk Castle Part Books (2009)
performed by Brabant Ensemble
composed by Christopher Tye, Edmund Hooper, John Sheppard, Robert Parsons, Thomas Caustun, Thomas Tallis, Unspecified, William Byrd, William Deane, William Mundy
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17. Johnson: Elvetham Entertainment/Byrd: Fantasia/ (2002)
performed by Quintessential Sackbut & Cornett Ensemble, Robert McDonald (bass), Stephen Wallace (counter tenor)
composed by Antony Holborne, Augustine Bassano, Edward Johnson, Francis Cutting, Giovanni Coprario, John Bull, John Dowland, John Wilbye, Robert Parsons, Various Composers, William Byrd
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18. Alfred Deller Edition, Vol. 22: William Byrd & His Age (1996)
performed by Alfred Deller (counter tenor), Schola Cantorum Basiliensis Wenzinger Consort of Viols
composed by Alfonso Ferrabosco, Anonymous, Richard Nicholson, Robert Parsons, Thomas Whythorne, William Byrd, William Corkine
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19. Elizabethian Songs and Consort Music (1999)
performed by Catherine King (mezzo-soprano), Rose Consort of Viols
composed by Anonymous, Anonymous, English, Christopher Tye, Innocenzio Alberti, John Bennet, John Johnson, John Taverner, Nathaniel Pattrick, Richard Farrant, Robert Parsons, Thomas Tallis, William Byrd, William Mundy
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21. Super Artists on Super Audio (2003)
performed by Alfredo Marcucci (bandoneon), Arte dei Suonatori, Capella Figuralis, Dejan Lazic (piano), Diapente Viol Consort, Ensemble Piacevole, Florilegium Musicum Ensemble, German Chamber Philharmonic, Bremen, Glen Wilson (harpsichord), Johannette Zomer (soprano)
composed by Antonio Vivaldi, Astor Piazzolla, Benjamin Britten, Camille Saint-Saëns, César Franck, Claudio Monteverdi, François Couperin, Georg Philipp Telemann, Giacomo Carissimi, Jean-Philippe Rameau, John Jenkins, Maurice Ravel, Robert Parsons, Robert Schumann
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22. The Gentlemen of the Chapel Royal (2002)
performed by Benjamin Bakker (counter tenor), Diapente Viol Consort, Niec van der Meulen (counter tenor), Robert Kuizenga (counter tenor), Siebe Henstra (organ), The Gents, Peter Dijkstra (conductor)
composed by Alfonso Ferrabosco, Antony Holborne, Edward Johnson, John Bennet, Robert Parsons, Robert White, Thomas Tallis, Thomas Tomkins, Thomas Weelkes, William Byrd, William Cornysh
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23. 16th Century Music for Viols
performed by Fretwork, Rose Consort of Viols
composed by Alfonso Ferrabosco, Christopher Tye, John Bull, John Dowland, John Taverner, Robert Parsons, Thomas Preston, Thomas Tallis, William Byrd, William Cornysh
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24. Three, Four and Twenty Lutes (1985)
performed by Andrew King (tenor), Bill Badley (mandora), David Miller (lute), David Miller (bass lute), David Parsons (lute), Emily van Evera (soprano), Jakob Lindberg (bandora), Jakob Lindberg (lute), Mary Nichols (alto), Michael Fields (guitar)
composed by Alessandro Piccinini, Anonymous, Cipriano de Rore, Giovanni Antonio Terzi, Giovanni Pacolini, Hubert Waelrant, Nicolas Vallet, Orlande de Lassus, Robert Johnson, Robert Parsons
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25. I Sing the Birth (2007)
performed by Elizabeth Baber (soprano), Emilie Williams (alto), New York Polyphony, Ruth Cunningham (soprano)
composed by Andrew Smith, Anonymous, Ritson Manscript, Christmas Traditional, English Traditional, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Gregorian Chant, Jacobus Clemens Non Papa, Kenneth Leighton, Pérotin, Peter Maxwell Davies, Plainchant, Richard Smert, Robert Parsons
New York Polyphony, a male quartet, in many senses calls to mind Anonymous 4, the women's ensemble that made an extraordinary career focusing on ... More
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