Lanier, who contributed to many of Ben Jonson 's Masques, was the first composer in England to write in the new Italian stylo recitatizo.
Alfred Deller (counter-tenor)
Rene Soames (tenor)
Desmond Dupre (lute and bass viol)
Charles Spinks (harpsichord continuo)
Programme devised and introduced by Macdonald Emslie