 | Music for Lute
Buy used from: $29.99 Your best-value single purchase. Amazing 4-CD compilation of 120 works by an Austrian lutenist in the Bream mould.
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 | The Golden Age of English Lute Music
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $5.99 The man who almost single-handedly revived the lute. Classic recordings.
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 | Lute Music From the Royal Courts of Europe
More pioneering recordings, this time exploring the continent.
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 | The Woods So Wild
Buy used from: $69.99 Highlights include some of Francesco da Milano's wonderful Fantasias.
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 | Dances of Dowland
Bream plays his favourite composer.
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 | Julian Bream Consort (Julian Bream Edition, Volume 6)
Buy used from: $39.95 Their first recording, including some more wonderful lute solos and duets.
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 | Amours amours amours: Duos for lutes
Buy used from: $69.82 Little-known but absolutely beautiful album of lute duets from around 1500.
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 | English Lute Duets
Buy new: $20.98 / Used from: $8.74 Two of the best lutenists around combine their talents.
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 | John Johnson: Lute Music
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $3.38 Works by a lesser-known contemporary of Dowland, by an excellent and prolific English lutenist. Includes several duets with Shirley Rumsey
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 | Between Two Hearts by Jean Baptiste Besard
Buy used from: $4.49 Extremely enjoyable album from an American lutenist who really breaths life into the music.
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 | Royal Lewters: Music of Henry VIII & Elizabeth I's by Paul O'Dette
Buy new: $21.98 / Used from: $13.45 One the best, and certainly the most prolific, lutenist playing today. No space to include all his albums!
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 | John Dowland: Complete Music for Solo Lute
Buy new: $19.98 / Used from: $51.78 Excellent lutenist from Sweden, now (I believe) resident in England.
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 | The Lute in Dance and Dream
Buy used from: $14.37 Lutz Kirchhof deserves to be better known.
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 | Bach: Lute Music
Buy new: $43.98 / Used from: $79.54 Commanding performances of the Lute Suites on the original instrument.
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 | John Dowland: Lachrimæ, Or Seven Teares
Buy new: $20.98 / Used from: $12.49 Dowland's wonderful masterpiece for lute and viols.
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 | A Varietie of Lute Lessons
Buy new: $22.99 / Used from: $8.38 One of today's most respected lutenists.
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 | La Rocque 'n' Roll - Popular Music of Renaissance France / The Baltimore Consort by Ronn McFarlane
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $3.02 Ronn McFarlane's group. Intelligent, lively, and a lot of fun.
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 | Weiss: Sonatas for Lute, Volume 1 by Sylvius Leopold Weiss
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $5.50 The first of Barto's stunning recordings of the complete works of Bach's friend and contemporary, Sylvius Leopold Weiss. Amazing both musically and as value for money. Buy all of them.
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 | Panorama: Dances of the Renaissance
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $11.34 Excellent double CD of Renaissance dance music.
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 | Heart's Ease: Music for Viol Consort from the Late Tudor and Early Stuart Age (Works by Holborne / Byrd / Dowland / Bull / Gibbons / Lawes / Ferrabosco I) - Fretwork by Fretwork
Buy used from: $21.99 Fine viol consort, often featuring Christopher Wilson on lute. Check out their other recordings.
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 | Dowland - The Collected Works / The Consort of Musicke, Rooley by John Dowland
Buy new: $95.98 / Used from: $51.39 Surely the definitive Dowland set, with Tony Rooley on lute, and the glorious voice of Emma Kirkby.
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 | The Journey & The Labyrinth: The Music of John Dowland (DVD & CD)
Buy new: $16.97 / Used from: $8.98 And, of course, we mustn't forget Sting and Edin Karamazov!
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