Robert Spencer

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English Chamber Orchestra, The Early Music Consort Of London, The Academy Of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Deller Consort, The Julian Bream Consort, The Consort Of Musicke, The Monteverdi Orchestra

English singer, lutenist, guitarist, musicologist and teacher (1932-1997). He taught at the Royal Academy of Music in London for 23 years.

ALBUMS

Alfred Deller, Wieland Kuijken, William Christie, David Munrow, Richard Lee (2), Desmond Dupré, Robert Elliott, Robert Spencer (2), The Consort Of Six, Henry Purcell, John Dowland

Inoubliable Alfred Deller. A Portrait

1995, 3xCD, Album, Harmonia Mundi,

David Munrow, Oliver Brookes, Robert Spencer*, Christopher Hogwood

The Amorous Flute

John Dowland · Alfred Deller · Robert Spencer

Lute Songs Vol. II · Come, Heavy Sleep

1989, CD, Album, Harmonia Mundi France, Harmonia Mundi France, Harmonia Mundi, Harmonia Mundi,

Cavalli*, Carissimi*, Scarlatti* - Ileana Cotrubas, Janet Baker, Martyn Hill, Robert Spencer (2), Christopher Hogwood, Heinrich-Schütz-Choir*, Orquesta Filarmónica De Londres*

La Calisto - Cantatas - Motetes

Renaissance/Baroque/Choral

Alfred Deller • Frans Brüggen • Quink Vocaal Ensemble* • Desmond Dupré • Robert Spencer

Oude Muziek Rond De Janskerk

1981, LP, COrneMUse,

Renaissance/Baroque

James Bowman (2) / Robert Spencer

Elizabethan Ayres & Dances

Carissimi* - Martyn Hill, Trevor Jones (4), Robert Spencer (2), Christopher Hogwood

John Dowland • Alfred Deller • Robert Spencer (2), Consort Of Six*

Lute Songs / Lute Solos / Consort Music

Dowland*, Alfred Deller, Robert Spencer

Lute Songs & Lute Solos

Elizabethan Music; An Introduction

1976, LP, Album, Times Records (3),

Jill Nott-Bower, Robert Spencer

'Tis Christmas Now

1973, LP, Album, CMS (10)

John Donne Devised By Douglas Cleverdon With Carleton Hobbs, William Squire And Robert Spencer

People Past And Present: John Donne

1972, LP, Argo (2)

The Apollo Society, George Rylands, Peter Orr, Robert Spencer (2), George Baker

Charles I 1649 ∙ Court And Commons

1971, 2xLP + Box, Argo (2)

John Carroll (4) With Carleton Hobbs And Robert Spencer

People Past And Present - Samuel Pepys, 1633-1703

Speech/Spoken Word

The Apollo Society, George Rylands, Peter Orr, Robert Spencer (2), Purcell Consort*

Elizabeth I The Armada 1588

Janet Baker / Dowland* • Arne* • Purcell* • Boyce* • Vaughan Williams* • Parry* • Britten* • Warlock* • Quilter* / Gerald Moore, Robert Spencer (2), Martin Isepp, Ambrose Gauntlett, Douglas Whittaker

A Treasury Of English Songs

Frank Patterson, Robert Spencer

Elizabethan Lute Songs And Solos

In A Garden So Green... Scottish Court Music Of The 16th Century

LP, Musical Heritage Society

John Dowland, James Bowman (2), Robert Spencer

Ayres And Lute-Lessons

James Bowman (2), Robert Spencer

O Mistress Mine: Elizabethan Lute Songs

John Dowland, Alfred Deller, Robert Spencer

Deller-Consort*

Madrigale & Chansons aus England Italien Frankreich

1990, CD, Album, Bayer Records,

The Julian Bream Consort

Fantasies, Ayres And Dances (Elizabethan And Jacobean Consort Music)

Elizabethan England - Its Drama, Music, And Sounds

1967, LP, Album, Mono, Horizon (4),

Renaissance/Spoken Word

The Julian Bream Consort

An Evening Of Elizabethan Music

APPEARANCES +

Purcell*, James Bowman

Elizabethan Lute Songs - Purcell : Birthday Odes

2019, 2xCD, Album, RE, Erato, Warner Classics,

The King's Singers

Madrigals & Songs From The Renaissance

2018, 8xCD, Comp, RE, Warner Classics,

Generation harmonia mundi: 1. The Age of Revolutions (1958-1988)

2018, 16xCD, Comp, Harmonia Mundi,

Baroque/Classical/Modern

Vivaldi* · Handel* · Kohaut* · Rodrigo* / Julian Bream

Concertos For Lute & Orchestra / Concierto De Aranjuez

2017, SACD, Hybrid, Multichannel, Comp, Quad, RM, Dutton Epoch

The Baroque Era

2014, 50xCD, Comp, RM + Box, Ltd, Decca, L'Oiseau-Lyre,

Baroque/Opera/Oratorio

Jérôme Lejeune

L'Europe Musicale De La Renaissance / Music In Europe At The Time Of The Renaissance

2013, 8xCD + Box, Ricercar,

Renaissance/Baroque

Dame Janet Baker*

The Great EMI Recordings

Baroque/Classical/Romantic/Impressionist/Modern

Susato* / Morley* / Praetorius* / Mainerio*, The Early Music Consort Of London, David Munrow

Renaissance Dance

Early Music. La Musique Ancienne de l'Antiquité à la Renaissance

Early/Medieval/Renaissance

The Essential Julian Bream

Baroque/Classical/Romantic/Modern

Chansons De La Renaissance (Songs Of The Renaissance)

2005, CD, Comp, Harmonia Mundi, Harmonia Mundi France,

Janet Baker, Haydn*, Beethoven*

Scottish Folk Song Arrangements / English Songs

2002, CD, Testament

Bream Adagios Guitar Favorites For Romantic Daydreams

Antonio Vivaldi

Vivaldi For Relaxation

2001, CD, Comp, BMG Classics, RCA Victor,

Handel* - Morison*, Delman*, Harwood*, Cantelo*, Watts*, Pears*, Partridge*, Alan*, King's College Choir*, Sir David Willcocks*

Ode For St Cecilia's Day / L'Allegro Ed Il Penseroso

1999, 2xCD, Comp, Decca,

Baroque/Oratorio

Early Music Consort*, David Munrow

Early Music Festival

Medieval/Renaissance

Antony Holborne*, Thomas Robinson, Christopher Wilson (2), Shirley Rumsey

Pavans And Galliards

John Dowland / Paul O'Dette

Complete Lute Works, Volumes 1 - 5

1997, 5xCD, Comp + Box, Ltd, Sli, Harmonia Mundi, Harmonia Mundi

John Dowland, Paul O'Dette

Complete Lute Works, Vol. 2

John Dowland, Paul O'Dette

Complete Lute Works, Vol.3

John Dowland, Paul O'Dette

Complete Lute Works, Vol. 1

J.S. Bach* - Pears* · Howell* · Harper*, Hodgson* · Tear*, Shirley-Quirk*, Wandsworth School Boys' Choir, English Chamber Orchestra, Benjamin Britten

St John Passion

1994, CD, Comp, Corriere Della Sera,

Antonio Vivaldi, The Academy Of St. Martin-in-the-Fields

L'Estro Armonico - 12 Concertos, Op.3

1994, 2xCD, Album, Musical Heritage Society,

Monteverdi* - The Monteverdi Choir & Orchestra*, John Eliot Gardiner

Vespro Della Beata Vergine 1610

Vivaldi*, The Academy Of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Sir Neville Marriner

L'Estro Armonico - 4 Concertos

Now Is The Merry Month Of May - Het Mooiste Uit Renaissance En Barok

1993, CD, Comp, Vanguard Classics

Matthew Locke, Henry Purcell - Christopher Hogwood, The Academy Of Ancient Music

Incidental Music To The Tempest / Music For His Majesty's Sackbuts & Cornetts / Abdelazer

1993, CD, Comp, L'Oiseau-Lyre

Handel*, Blow* - Choir Of King's College, Cambridge*, Sir David Willcocks*

Ode For St. Cecilia's Day - Anthems

1993, CD, Decca

Julian Bream, The Julian Bream Consort

The Julian Bream Consort

1993, CD, Comp, RCA Victor Gold Seal,

Renaissance/Baroque/Modern

Now Is The Merry Month Of May - Het Mooiste Uit De Renaissance En De Barok

1993, CD, Comp, Vanguard Classics,

Baroque/Renaissance

Monteverdi* - Raymond Leppard, Glyndebourne Opera Group*

Madrigali Guerrieri et Amorosi

The Monteverdi Choir, The Philip Jones Brass Ensemble*, John Eliot Gardiner

Christmas In Venice

Renaissance/Baroque

Vivaldi*, The Academy Of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Sir Neville Marriner

L'Estro Armonico

1991, 2xCD, Comp, Decca

Vivaldi* - Carmel Kaine, Alan Loveday, Academy Of St. Martin-in-the-Fields*, Neville Marriner*

Claudio Monteverdi, The Monteverdi Choir & The English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner

Vespro Della Beata Vergine

Antonio Vivaldi, Jakob Lindberg, Nils-Erik Sparf, Monica Huggett, The Drottningholm Baroque Ensemble*

The Complete Works For The Italian Lute Of His Period, Rv 82, 85, 93 & 540

1987, Cass, Musical Heritage Society,

The King's Singers

All At Once Well Met: English Madrigals

Antonio Vivaldi, Jakob Lindberg, Nils-Erik Sparf, Monica Huggett, The Drottningholm Baroque Ensemble*

The Complete Works For The Italian Lute Of His Period, Rv 82, 85, 93 & 540

Some Glories Of Elizabethan Music

1982, LP, Comp, Contour Red Label

Dowland* / Deller Consort / Mark Deller

Ayres & Lute - Lessons

The King's Singers

Sing We & Chant It! (English Madrigals)

Schütz* - Pro Cantione Antiqua Directed By Edgar Fleet

Bengt* & Michael*

Musik På Två Gitarrer

1981, LP, Four Leaf Clover Records

David Munrow / The Early Music Consort Of London

The Art Of David Munrow

Early/Renaissance/Baroque

Deller Consort, The Morley Consort

Musique À La Cour Des Tudor

Antonio Vivaldi, The Academy Of St. Martin-in-the-Fields

Antonio Vivaldi / The Academy Of St. Martin-In-The-Fields

The Early Guitar

Early/Baroque/Renaissance

Monteverdi* – Raymond Leppard

Madrigali Libro 7

1977, 3xLP + Box, Philips,

Renaissance/Baroque/Madrigal

Ayres And Lute-Lessons

David Munrow, Members Of The Early Music Consort Of London*, George Malcolm

Greensleeves To A Ground

Renaissance/Baroque/Modern

Matthew Locke, The Academy Of Ancient Music

Incidental Music To The Tempest / Music For His Majesty's Sackbuts & Cornetts

Academy Of St. Martin-in-the-Fields*

1976, LP, Comp, Club, Decca,

David Munrow, The Early Music Consort Of London

Instruments Of The Middle Ages And Renaissance = 中世・ルネサンスの楽器

1976, 2xLP, Angel Records

Monteverdi*, Raymond Leppard, Glyndebourne Festival Chorus, The Ambrosian Singers, English Chamber Orchestra

Madrigali Libri 8-9-10

Renaissance/Baroque

David Munrow / The Early Music Consort Of London

Instruments Of The Middle Ages And Renaissance

Renaissance/Medieval

Monteverdi* - Elly Ameling / Norma Burrowes / Robert Tear / Anthony Rolfe Johnson / Charles Brett / John Noble / Peter Knapp (2) / Early Music Consort Of London* Directed By David Munrow / King's College Choir, Cambridge* / Philip Ledger

Vespers (1610) - (Vespro Della Beata Vergine)

Claudio Monteverdi / The Monteverdi Choir / The Monteverdi Orchestra / John Eliot Gardiner

Vespro Della Beata Vergine

The Art Of The Recorder

Renaissance/Early/Classical/Modern/Baroque

Vivaldi* / Handel* / Kohaut*, Julian Bream, The Monteverdi Orchestra, John Eliot Gardiner

Concertos For Lute & Orchestra

Baroque/Classical

Arcangelo Corelli - Academy Of St. Martin-in-the-Fields*, Neville Marriner*

Weihnachtskonzert • 4 Concerti Grossi Aus Op. 6

Haslemere Festival 1925-1974

1974, LP, Mono, Strobe (2),

The Early Music Consort Of London Conducted By David Munrow - Michael Praetorius

Music By Praetorius: Dances From Terpsichore / Motets From Musae Sioniae

The Amorous Flute (David Munrow Plays Popular Music From Early Eighteenth Century London)

Corelli*, Neville Marriner*, Academy Of St. Martin-in-the-Fields*

Concerti Grossi Op. 6

The World Of Elizabethan Music

Renaissance/Early

Vivaldi*, Academy Of St. Martin-in-the-Fields* , Director Neville Marriner*

L'Estro Armonico

G.F. Händel* - Donald McIntyre, Ryland Davies, James Bowman (2), Margaret Price, Sheila Armstrong, John Winfield (2), Stafford Dean, Gerald English, Leeds Festival Chorus, English Chamber Orchestra, Charles Mackerras*

Baroque/Oratorio

Elizabethan Lute Songs

David Munrow & The Early Music Consort Of London

Henry VIII And His Six Wives: Music From The Soundtrack Film

Susato* / Morley* ; The Early Music Consort Of London* , The Morley Consort* / Director: David Munrow

Two Renaissance Dance Bands: Susato Dansereye 1551 / Morley Consort Lessons 1599

Monteverdi* - Raymond Leppard, Glyndebourne Opera Group*

Madrigali Amorosi

Monteverdi* - Raymond Leppard, Glyndebourne Opera Group*

Madrigals Of War

Claudio Monteverdi, Raymond Leppard

Il Combattimento Di Tancredi E Clorinda - Il Ballo Delle Ingrate

Schütz* - Peter Pears, Robert Tear, John Shirley-Quirk, Heinrich Schütz Choir*, Roger Norrington

The Resurrection (Historia Der Auferstehung Jesu Christi)

Sings Ancient & Modern

Early/Renaissance/Ballad/Vocal/Romantic

Purcell Consort Of Voices*, Grayston Burgess

Renaissance/Choral

People Past And Present

Dialogue/Spoken Word/Folk

Early Music Consort*, David Munrow

Ecco La Primavera (Florentine Music Of The 14th Century)

Handel* – April Cantelo, Ian Partridge, Choir Of King's College Cambridge*, Academy Of St. Martin-in-the-Fields* Director David Willcocks

Ode For St. Cecilia's Day

William Lawes, The Elizabethan Consort* Director Thurston Dart

Choir of King's College, Cambridge* , Conducted By David Willcocks

Sing Praises, Vol. 1: Carols And Songs Of Praise From The Cambridge Hymnal

Purcell Consort*, Grayston Burgess

Now Make We Merthe (Medieval Carols)

Janet Baker, Gerald Moore

A Pageant Of English Song

Renaissance/Baroque/Romantic/Modern

The Story Of Great Music From The Renaissance

Renaissance/Baroque

Concierto De Aranjuez For Guitar And Orchestra / Concerto For Lute And Strings / The Courtly Dances From "Gloriana"

Schütz*, Pears* • Partridge* • Heinrich Schütz Choir* • Norrington*

Historia Der Geburt Jesu Christi = The Christmas Story / Historia Der Auferstehung Jesu Christi = The Resurrection / Doppelchörige Motetten

2xCD, Comp, RE, RM, Decca

Early/Baroque/Renaissance

Heinrich Schütz / Elisabethan Consort Of Viols • London Cornett & Sackbut Ensemble* • Heinrich Schütz Choir* • Roger Norrington

Historia Der Auferstehung Jesu Christi

CD, Comp, RM, Decca

Linn Barnes, Allison Hampton

A Merry Mood: Renaissance Music For Two Lutes

LP, Album, JRB Records (3)

Vivaldi* / Kohaut*, Handel* / Julian Bream, The Monteverdi Orchestra, John Eliot Gardiner

Concerti Per Luto E Archi

LP, RCA, RCA Red Seal,

Baroque/Classical

Morley* - Deller Consort / Alfred Deller, Morley Consort* / David Munroe*

Thomas Morley · Giles Farnaby · William Byrd · John Dowland · John Bull

Musik Aus Der Zeit Elisabeth I.

Freaking Out At Court

1973, LP, Comp, London Records, London Records

Sally Go Round The Sun And Other Nursery Rhymes

1971, LP, Longman