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Thomas Tomkins: These Distracted Times (consort and choral music)
Fretwork & Alamire, directed by David Skinner
Obsidian
B000Y11M48
Thomas Tomkins: Music for Harpsichord and Virginals
Carole Cerasi - harpsichord & virginals
Metronome MetCD 1049
The instruments used are a copy by Willem Kroesbergen (Utrecht, 1972) of a single-manual harpsichord by Bartolomeo Sephanini, and a muselar virginals by Derek Adlam and Richard Burnett (Finchcocks, 1973) after a 1611 Johannes Ruckers in the Vleeshuis Museum in Antwerp.
Tomkins: Complete Keyboard Music Nos. 1-4
Bernhard Klapprott - harpsichord & virginals (Nos. 1-3); organ (No. 4)
MDG : B00003L1XM
The first three volumes are confined to harpsichord and virginals: an Italian harpsichord by Cornelis Bom after a seventeenth-century original by Giovanni Battista Giusti, and a virginals built by Klaus Ahrend after Marten van der Biest (Flanders, 1580). The final volume uses a single organ: an instrument originally dating back to 1549 in the Reformed Church in Uttum, restored by Ahrend and Brunzema in 1957.
Cathedral Music by Thomas Tomkins
Choir of St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle (Christopher Robinson, director; Roger Judd, organ)
Helios: CDH55066
Above the Stars
Emma Kirkby, Catherine King, Charles Daniels, Donald Greig, Richard Wistreich, Jonathan Arnold, Fretwork
Harmonia Mundi: HMU 907320
The Third Service and Anthems
The Choir of New College, Oxford (Edward Higginbotham, director; David Burchell, organ)
CRD 3467
Thomas Tomkins: The Great Service
The Tallis Scholars (Peter Phillips, director)
Gimell: CDGIM 024
In addition to the Third or Great Service, this CD includes a set of anthems.
Music Divine - Songs of 3, 4, 5 and 6 parts (London, 1622)
I Fagiolini
Chaconne: CHAN 0680
Thomas Tomkins: Consort Music for Viols and Voices; Keyboard Music
Rose Consort of Viols, Red Byrd, Timothy Roberts (harpsichord & organ), John Bryan
Naxos 8.550602
Thomas Tomkins: Choral and Organ Music
Oxford Camerata (Jeremy Summerly); Laurence Cummings, organ
Naxos 8.553794 (1996)
The following CDs contain some tracks devoted to Tomkins and some to other composers of the period:-
A Cleare Day: pieces from the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book - reviewed in the new Online Review section of the website
Kenneth Weiss
Satirino SIR111
The instruments used are an Italian virginals by Jean-Luc Wolfs-Dachy (2006) after Alessandro Bertolotti (1585), a Flemish harpsichord by Marc Ducornet (2005) after Ruckers, and an Italian harspchord by Marc Ducornet (2007) after Grimaldi (1697)
Two upon a Ground
Charivari Agréable
Signum SIGCD00
16th Century English Harpsichord and Virginals Music
Trevor Pinnock
crd 3350
Harpsichord in the Ruckers tradition (c1638) & muselar virginals after Ruckers (1611), both by Adlam Burnett
Renaissance Masterpieces
The Choir of New College, Oxford (Edward Higginbotham, director)
Brilliant
Great Tudor Anthems
Worcester Cathedral Choir (Edgar Hunt, director)
Griffin GCCD4053
Flora gave me fairest flowers
The Cambridge Singers (John Rutter, director)
Collegium COLCD 105
