Alfred Deller « The Complete Vanguard Recordings », Volume FOUR

Alfred Deller « The Complete Vanguard Recordings », Volume FOUR

Music of Handel Bach and English Renaissance
Alfred Deller – The Deller Consort
Musical Concepts MC 195 [CDx6 + CD-ROM]

Contents:

CD-1
The Connoisseur's Handel / Handel: 3 Coronation Anthems

George Frideric Handel: Jephta (Oratorio, 1752), HWV 70

1. Air: 'Tis Heaven's all-ruling pow'r
2. Quartet: O spare your daughter
3. Air: Laud her all ye virgin train

George Frideric Handel: Serse (Opera, 1738, London)

4. Air: Ombra mai fù

George Frideric Handel: Orlando (Opera, 1733, London)

5. Air: Ah! Stigie larve

George Frideric Handel: L'Allegro, il Pensoroso ed il Moderato (Oratorio, 1740) HWV 55

6. Air: Let me wander

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George Frideric Handel: Orlando (Opera, 1733, London)

7. Air; Cielo! se tu il consenti

George Frideric Handel: Rinaldo (Opera, 1711, London)

8. Air: Lascia ch'io pianga

George Frideric Handel: Theodora (Oratorio, 1750), HWV 68

9. Air; Kind Heav'n, if Virtue be thy care
10. Air; Wide spread his name
11. Air: Sweet Rose, and Lilly, flow'ry Form
12. Duet: To thee thou glorious son of worth

George Frideric Handel: Coronation Anthems

13. Zadok the priest (Andante maestoso 4/4)
14. The King shall rejoice
    1. Allegro moderato, 4/4
    2. Allegro, 3/4
    3. A tempo giusto, 4/4
    4. Allegro non presto, 3/4
    5. Allegro non presto, 4/4
15. Let thy hand be strenghtened
    1. Allegro moderato, 4/4
    2. Larghetto, 3/4

CD-2
Handel: Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne / Bach: Cantatatas 54 & 170

George Frideric Handel: Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne

16. Counter-tenor solo (Largo): Eternal source of light divine
17. Soprano solo (Andante): Let all the winged ...
18. Countertenor solo (Andante): Let flocks ...
19. Counter-tenor and bass duet: Let rolling streams ...
20. Sopranos duet (Andante): Kind health descends
21. Bass solo (Allegro): Let envy then conceal her head
22. Counter-tenor solo and Double Chorus (Allegro): United nations shall combine

Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata No. 170 « Vergnügte Ruh' beliebte Seelenlust »

23. Aria: Vergnügte Ruh'
24. Recitative: Die Welt, das Sündenhaus
25. Aria: Wie jammern
26. Recitative: Wer solte sich
27. Aria: Wie leid ist mir das Leben

Johann Sebastian Bach: Mass, in B minor

28. Agnus Dei

Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata No. 54 « Widerstehe doch der Sünde »

29. Aria: Widerstehe
30. Recitative: Die Art
31. Aria: Wer Sunde tut

CD-3
Handel: Alexander's Feast (beginning)

George Frideric Handel: Oratorio « Alexander's Feast »

32. Overture
    1. Maestoso
    2. Allegro ma non troppo
    3. Andante
33. Recitative (tenor): 'Twas at the royal feast
34. Air and Chorus (tenor, followed by chorus and solo): Happy, happy, happy
35. Recitative (tenor): Timotheus, plac'd on high
36. Accompanied recitative (soprano): The song began
37. Chorus (andante): The list'ning crowd
38. Air (soprano, allegro ma non presto): With ravish'd ears
39. Recitative (tenor): The praise of Bacchus
40. Air and Chorus (bass followed by chorus, andante): Bacchus, ever fair
41. Recitative (tenor): Sooth'd with the sound
42. Accompanied recitative (soprano, adagio e piano): He chose a mournful Muse
43. Air (soprano, large e piano): He sung Darius
44. Accompanied recitative (soprano): With downcast looks
45. Chorus (larghetto): Behold Darius
46. Recitative (tenor): The mighty master smil'd
47. Air (soprano, largo): Softly sweet in Lydian measures
48. Air (tenor, andante allegro): War, he sung, is toil and trouble
49. Chorus (andante): The many rend the skies
50. Air (soprano) and Chorus (allegro moderato): The Prince, unable to conceal
51. Chorus da capo: The many rend the skies
52. Accompanied recitative (tenor) and Chorus: Now strike the golden Lyre again
53. Chorus (allegro ma non troppo): Break his bands of sleep asunder
54. Air (bass, andante allegro): Revenge, revenge
55. Aria (largo): Behold, a ghastly band

CD-4
Handel: Alexander's Feast (conclusion) / Elizabethan and Jacobean Music

George Frideric Handel: Oratorio G Alexander's Feast »

56. Air (da capo); Revenge, revenge
57. Accompanied recitative (tenor): Give the vengeance due
58. Air (tenor, allegro): The princes applaud
59. Air (soprano) and chorus (andante larghetto): Thais led the way
60. Accompanied recitative (tenor) and Chorus: Thus, long ago
61. Chorus: At last divine Cecilia came
62. Recitative (tenor and bass): Let old Timotheus yield the prize
63. Chorus and soloists (andante - allegro): Let old Timotheus yield the prize

John Dowland, Book of Airs, 1597

64. Air: Can she excuse my wrongs ?

Thomas Morley, A Plaine and Easie Introduction to Practicall Musicke

65. Air for three viols (instr.)

John Bartlett (m) / George Gascoigne (t), A Book of Ayres ... 1606

66. Air: Of all the birds that I do know

Robert Johnson, Fitwilliam Virginal Book

67. Alman for harpsichord (set by Gilles Farnaby) (instr.)

John Dowland, Book of Airs, 1597

68. Air: If my complaints could passions move

John Jenkins, British Museum MS

69. Pavan for four viols (instr.)

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Thomas Campian, Rosseter's Book of Ayres, 1601

70. Air: I care not for these ladies

John Dowland, British Museum MS

71. Air for lute solo: My Lady Hunsdon's Puffe (instr.)

Robert Parsons, King College, Cambridge MS

72. Air: Pandolpho (orn. for lute)

John Jenkins, British Museum MS

73. Fantasia in C for four viols (instr.)

John Dowland, A Pilgrim's Solace

74. Air: From silent night

Giles Farnaby, Fitwilliam Virginal Book

75. Variations for harpsichord on "Up Tails All" (instr.)

CD-5
Thomas Tallis: The Lamentations of Jeremiah the Prophet, Part I / William Byrd and His Age

Thomas Tallis: The Lamentations of Jeremiah the Prophet, Part1

76. Incipit Lamentatio Jeremiae Prophetae
77. Aleph; Quomodo sedet
78. Beth
79. Plorans ploravit

Thomas Tallis: The Lamentations of Jeremiah the Prophet, Part II

80. De Lamentatione Jeremiae Prophetae
81. Ghimel
82. Migravit Judas
83. Daleth:
    
84. Omnes persecutores
85. Heth
86. Facti sunt

Thomas Tallis: Hymns for alternating plainsong and polyphony

87. Jesu salvator saeculi
88. Deus tuorum militum
89. O nata lux de lumine
90. Jam Christus astra ascenderat
91. Salvator mundi Domine

Anon., arr. Edmund Fellowes, British Museum, Add. Mss. 17, 786-91

92. My Sweet Little Darling

Anon., arr. Peter Warlock, Christ Church, Oxford, Mss. 984-8

93. Guichardo

William Corkine, arr. Thurston Dart:

94. What Bootheth Love ?

Anon., arr. Peter Warlock, Christ Church, Oxford, Mss 984-8

95. Ah, Silly Poor Joas

Thomas Whythorne, arr. Peter Warlock

96. Buy New Broom

William Byrd, arr. Fellowes, Elegy on the death of Thomas Tallis, 1585

97. Ye Sacred Muses

William Byrd, arr. Edmund Fellowes, Psalms, Sonnets, and Songs of Sadness and Piety, made into Music of Five Parts, 1588

98. Lullaby, My Sweet Little Baby

Richard Nicholson, arr. Peter Warlock, British Museum, Add. Mss 17, 79 ?

99. In a Merry May Morn

Robert Parsons, arr. Peter Warlock

100. Pandolpho

William Byrd, arr. Peter le Huray & Thurston Dart

101. Come, pretty Babe

Anon., arr. Peter Warlock, Add. Mss 18, 936-9, British Museum

102. O Death, Rock Me Asleep

CD-6
Deller's Choice (selections) / Duets for Countertenors (selections)

John Blow (1648-1708)

103. The Self-Banished

John Weldon (1676-1736)

104. *The Nightingale

Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759)

105. Dove sei (from Rodelinda, 1725)
106. Bist du bei mir (from the Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach

Matthew Locke (1621-1677)

107. Voluntary in G for organ (Melothsia, 1673)

Henry Purcell (1659-1695)

108. The Queen's Epicedium (Elegy on the death of Queen Mary, 1695)

Matthew Locke (1621-1677)

109. Voluntary in F for organ (Melothsia, 1673)

Pelham Humfrey (or Hemphryes, 1647-1674)

110. A Hymn to God the Father (Harmonia Sacra, Book I, 1688)

1725)
Thomas Morley: The First Book of Canzonets to Two Voices, 1595

111. Sweet Nymph, Come to Thy Lover

Henry Purcell: "Love's Goddess" Birthday Song for Queen Mary, 1692

112. Sweetness of Nature

Robert Jones: "A Musicall Dreame" or 4th Book of Airs

113. Sweet Kate

Thomas Morley: Canzonets for Two Voices

114. Miraculous love's wounding
115. I go before, my darling

John Blow: Amphion Anglicus (London, 1600)

116. If my Celia could persuade
117. Ah Heav'n! What is it I hear?

Richard Deering: Cantica Sacra (London, 1662)

118. O bone Jesu
119. Gaudent in coelis

Anon., Fayrfax Ms.:

120. Tudor carol: Ah, My Dear Son

CD-ROM

Performers, recording site and date:
See links below;
Rel.: 2009

Playing times: 72'57" + 69'28 + 73'34" + 69'42" + 79'57" + 54'27"

Reviewed in: Diapason (#-p.): 574-74 (Nov. 2009)

Excerpts:
[1]-[12] Vanguard « The Bach Guild » BG 601 [LP] The Connoisseur's Handel: A Bouquet of neglected Arias and Ensembles
[13]-[22] Vanguard « The Bach Guild » BG 661 [LP] Handel: Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne – Three Coronation Anthems
[23]-[31] Vanguard « The Bach Guild » BG 550 [LP] Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata No. 170 – Agnus Dei – Cantata No. 54
[32]-[63] Vanguard « The Bach Guild » BG 666/667 [LPx2] George Frideric Handel: Oratorio « Alexander's Feast »
[64]-[75] Vanguard « The Bach Guild » BG 539 [LP] Elizabethan and Jacobean Music – Airs and Instrumental Music of England
[76]-[91] Vanguard « The Bach Guild » BG 551 [LP] Thomas Tallis: The Lamentations of Jeremiah the Prophet and hymns for alternating plainsong and polyphony
[92-102] Vanguard « The Bach Guild » BG 557 [LP] William Byrd and His Age
[103]-[110]Vanguard « The Bach Guild » BG 612 [LP] Deller's Choice: A Concert of Music both Rare and Rewarding
[111]-[120] Vanguard « The Bach Guild » BG 691 [LP] Duets for Counter-tenors

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