The Harp Consort

The Harp Consort now records exclusively for Harmonia Mundi USA. Their first release was Missa Mexicana: festive polyphony and popular dances from 17th-century Mexico (The Times (London) CD of the Year). Their second CD, Miracles of Notre Dame (songs arranged by Gautier de Coincy, 13th-century Prior of Vic) won the Dutch "Edison" award: it was also Gramophone Magazine's Editor's Choice & London Telegraph CD of the Year.^{[citation needed]}

Discography

• Luz y Norte: Baroque Dance-music from Spain, Italy, South America and Africa. Music by Lucas Ruiz de Ribayaz, Madrid 1677. BMG DHM 05472 77810 2 (1995)
• Carolan's Harp. Music by
  Belinda Sykes (alto shawm, Renaissance bagpipes), Hille Perl (viola da gamba, lyra viol, violone, gittern); Lucy Carolan (harpsichord), Pat O'Brien (bandora, guitar), Paul O'Dette (theorbo, cittern, guitar), Steve Player (dancer,gittern, French cittern, guitar, whistle, drone pipes), Pedro Estevan
  (percussion). BMG 05472-77375-2 (1996).
• Italian Concerto: The Italian "gusto" at home and abroad. Music by
  Handel. Andrew Lawrence-King (Italian arpa doppia). With Hille Perl (lira, violone), Paul O'Dette
  (theorbo), and many other performers. BMG DHM 05472-77366-2 (1997).
• Ludus Danielis
• La púrpura de la rosa
• Spanish Gypsies: Celtic and Spanish music in Shakespeare's England. Music by John Playford, Tobias Hume, Giles Farnaby, and others. Hille Perl (viola da gamba, lira viol, baroque guitar), Rachel Podger (baroque violin), Nancy Hadden (renaissance flute), Keith McGowan (shawm); and Steve Player (baroque guitar, gittern, bagpipes), Lee Santana (cittern, theorbo, baroque guitar), Michael Metzler (percussion), directed by Andrew Lawrence-King (harp, triple harp, Irish harp, Spanish harp, psaltery). BMG Ariola Classics DHM 05472 77516 2 (1999).
• Missa Mexicana. Harmonia Mundi HMX 2907923 (2002).
• Vivaldi: The Four Seasons - Freiburger Barockorchester
• Fire-Water: Spanish renaissance ensaladas - The King's Singers
• Miracles of Notre Dame
• El Arte de Fantasía: Spanish romances and French chansons from the libre de cifra nueva para tecla, arpa & vihuela, transcribed by Luis Venegas de Henestrosa (1557). Music by Cabezón, Mudarra, Josquin, Narváez, Crequillon, et al. Andrew Lawrence-King (Spanish double-harp, renaissance harp, organ, harpsichord, psaltery), with Hille Perl (viola da gamba), Lee Santana (vihuela, cittern), Steve Player (renaissance guitar, percussion), Helen Coombs (organ, harpsichord). Harmonia Mundi USA HMU 907316 (2004).
• Les travailleurs de la mer: Ancient songs from a small island. Music of Guernsey, after the novel by Victor Hugo. Directed by Andrew Lawrence-King (triple harp, medieval harp, psaltery, chifournie), with Clara Sanabras (soprano, baroque guitar) and Paul Hillier (baritone); and Jane Achtman (viola da gamba, fiddle), Nancy Hadden (flutes, baroque guitar), Ian Harrison (bagpipes, shawn, cornetto), Steven Player (baroque guitars, percussion), Richardo Padilla (percussion), Helen Coombs (chifournier). HMU 907330 (2004).