Ed Durbrow has studied the lute since the mid 1970s. Among his many teachers were Robert Strizich, Paul Odette and a year with Eugene Dombois at the Schola Cantorum in Basel, Switzerland in 1979-80. His discography includes a band single recorded in EMI's Abbey Road Studios as a result of winning the first Melody Maker Rock Contest in London in 1972 and a writing credit on an Ueda Masaki number one album in Japan in 1983. He has composed music for TV commercials and other performers CDs in Japan as well as recording much music in his own studio for many diverse artists. He has played all over Japan performing in costume for general audiences many of whom have never seen a lute. The personel for La Primavera seems to be ever changing in Japan. For this recording, tenor Jacob Dougherty, bass Nathaniel Hurvitz and soprano Michelle Keobke of Canada joined Americans viola da gambists David Morris and Natalie Sera, recorder player Richard Geisler, and soprano Beverly Marks.

English Renaissance Music

Tagged as: Classical, Renaissance, Classical Singing, Composer: Diego Ortiz, Composer: Giulio Caccini, Composer: John Dowland, Composer: Philip Rosseter, Composer: Robert Jones, Composer: Thomas Campion, Composer: Tobias Hume, Composer: William Byrd, Lute.

1. American Baroque: Spectacular Baroque and Classical chamber music
2. Edward Martin: vihuela, renaissance and baroque lute
3. Daniel Estrem: colorful classical guitar
4. Canconier: Medieval music from the 12th to the 15th centuries
5. Ensemble Mirable: rare and extraordinary music of the Baroque
6. Jacob Heringman: renaissance lute
7. Asteria: late-medieval vocal and instrumental music
8. Andreas Almqvist: elegant classical guitar
9. Paul Berget: renaissance lute, modernized.
10. Stephane Potvin and the Con Brio Choir: choral conductor extraordinaire
11. Paul Beier: solo lute of the Italian renaissance.
12. Richard MacKenzie: Virtuoso English Lutenist and Guitarist
13. In Nova Cantica: carols and chansons from the 13th - 17th Centuries for dancing, festivities and mayhem
14. Dufay Collective: instrumental and vocal music from the Middle Ages and Reniassance
15. Vito Paternoster: cellist extraordinaire
16. Jeni Melia: Elizabethan lute and folk song
17. Poeticall Musicke: Late Renaissance and Early Baroque music, historically performed
18. Misericordia: sickeningly good Medieval
19. La Reverie: Recreating traditional music from a modern perspective
20. Da Camera: Celtic Renaissance/Baroque Ensemble