The Golden Age of Music & Theatre: The times of William Shakespeare (1564–1616) offered much more than great theatre. Those were years when music flourished, a time of saucy street ballads, of melancholy lute-songs and madrigals. Great artists of the early music scene convey us into this seemingly distant world and bring it to life...

CD 1
01 Nuttmigs and Ginger  - The Musicians of Swanne Alley
02 Mother Watkins Ale  - The Musicians of Swanne Alley
03 Barrow Faustus Dreame  - The Musicians of Swanne Alley
04 Stingo  - The Musicians of Swanne Alley
05 Paggington's Pound  - The Musicians of Swanne Alley
06 Bony Sweet Boy  - The Musicians of Swanne Alley
07 Willsons Wilde  - The Musicians of Swanne Alley
08 Care Charminge Sleepe  - The Musicians of Swanne Alley
09 Short Allmain  - The Musicians of Swanne Alley
10 Away Delights  - The Musicians of Swanne Alley
11 Robin is to the Greenwood Gone  - The Musicians of Swanne Alley
12 Passamezzo Moderno  - The Musicians of Swanne Alley
13 Green Garters  - The Musicians of Swanne Alley
14 Fortune My Foe  - The Musicians of Swanne Alley
15 Chi passa per 'sta strada  - The Musicians of Swanne Alley
16 Bonny Sweet Robin  - The Musicians of Swanne Alley
17 Guillims Dumpe  - The Musicians of Swanne Alley
18 O Deathe, Rock Me a Sleepe  - The Musicians of Swanne Alley
19 Browning My Dere  - The Musicians of Swanne Alley
20 Hackney  - The Musicians of Swanne Alley
21 My Lord Willoughbies Welcome Home  - The Musicians of Swanne Alley
22 What if a Day  - The Musicians of Swanne Alley
23 Green Sleeves  - The Musicians of Swanne Alley
24 Grimstock  - The Musicians of Swanne Alley

CD 2
01 Joyne Hands  - The Musicians of Swanne Alley
02 Philips Paven  - The Musicians of Swanne Alley
03 Galliard to Philips Pavin  - The Musicians of Swanne Alley
04 A lieta vita (Sing and we chant it)  - The Musicians of Swanne Alley
05 A griefe, Even on the Bud  - The Musicians of Swanne Alley
06 Our Bonny Boots Could Toote It  - The Musicians of Swanne Alley
07 Pavan (lute solo)  - The Musicians of Swanne Alley
08 Galliard (lute solo)  - The Musicians of Swanne Alley
09 Sola Soletta  - The Musicians of Swanne Alley
10 In Nomine Pavan  - The Musicians of Swanne Alley
11 Galliard To In Nomine  - The Musicians of Swanne Alley
12 La Coranta  - The Musicians of Swanne Alley
13 Sleepe Slumb'ring Eyes  - The Musicians of Swanne Alley
14 Thyrsis and Milla  - The Musicians of Swanne Alley
15 Monsieurs Almaine  - The Musicians of Swanne Alley
16 The Sacred End Pavin  - The Musicians of Swanne Alley
17 Galliard to Sacred End  - The Musicians of Swanne Alley
18 Pavin  - The Musicians of Swanne Alley
19 Galliard  - The Musicians of Swanne Alley
20 A Painted Tale  - The Musicians of Swanne Alley
21 Faire In a Morne  - The Musicians of Swanne Alley
22 Sayd I That Amarillis  - The Musicians of Swanne Alley
23 Now is The Gentle Season  - The Musicians of Swanne Alley
24 Harke Alleluia  - The Musicians of Swanne Alley
25 Hard By a Cristall Fountaine  - The Musicians of Swanne Alley
26 Now is The Moneth Of Maying  - The Musicians of Swanne Alley
27 O Mistresse Mine (voice/lute/pandora)  - The Musicians of Swanne Alley
28 O Mistresse mine (consort)  - The Musicians of Swanne Alley
29 My Lord Of Oxenfords Maske  - The Musicians of Swanne Alley

CD 3
01 Dowland: The First Booke of Songes: IX. Go Crystall Teares  - Hilliard Ensemble
02 Dowland: The First Booke of Songes: XIX. Awake, Sweet Love  - Hilliard Ensemble
03 Dowland: The First Booke of Songes: XVIII. His Golden Locks  - Hilliard Ensemble
04 Dowland: The First Booke of Songes: VI. Now, O Now  - Hilliard Ensemble
05 Dowland: The Second Booke of Songes: XVII. A Shepherd in a Shade is Plaining Made  - Hilliard Ensemble
06 Dowland: The Third Booke of Songs: IX. What if I Never Speede  - Hilliard Ensemble
07 Byrd: Ye Sacred Muses  - Hilliard Ensemble
08 Byrd: Lulla, lullaby  - Hilliard Ensemble
09 Byrd: Who Made Thee, Hob, Forsake The Plough ?  - Hilliard Ensemble
10 Byrd: Come Wofull Orpheus  - Hilliard Ensemble
11 Byrd: Though Amarillis Daunce in Greene  - Hilliard Ensemble
12 Corant  - Emma Kirkby
13 Johnson: Where The Bee Sucks  - Emma Kirkby
14 Fantasia  - Emma Kirkby
15 Hark, Hark! The Lark  - Emma Kirkby
16 Pavan  - Emma Kirkby
17 Come, Heavy Sleep  - Emma Kirkby
18 Galliard  - Emma Kirkby
19 Full Fathom Five  - Emma Kirkby
20 Alman I  - Emma Kirkby
21 Have You Seen The White Lily Grow?  - Emma Kirkby
22 Alman III  - Emma Kirkby
23 Tell Me, Dearest  - Emma Kirkby