Les voix de cristal ou l'art des haute-contre

Les voix de cristal ou l'art des haute-contre
Nigel Short, Alfred Deller, Grard Lesne, James Bowman... et al.
Vanguard (Arcade) Classics 302 433 [CD, France]

Contents:

    Antonio Vivaldi
  1. Stabat Mater RV 621

  2. Anon.
  3. The first nowell

  4. George Frideric Handel
  5. Eternal source HWV 74

  6. Henry Purcell: Come, ye sons of art, Z323; text N. Tate
    (Ode on the Birthday of Mary II, 1694)

  7. Excerpts:
    1. Come ye sons of art
    Anon.
  8. The three ravens

  9. Johann Sebastian Bach
  10. Vergnügte Ruh', beliebte Seelenlust BWV 170

  11. Henry Purcell: King Arthur Z 628
  12. Fairest isle

  13. Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
  14. Stabat Mater

  15. Anon.
  16. King Henry

  17. Roland de Lassus
  18. Matona mia cara

  19. Henry Purcell
  20. Sound the trumpet Z 335

  21. Thomas Tallis: Lamentations
  22. Plorans ploravit

  23. Heinrich Schütz
  24. Erhöre mich, wenn ich rufe. SWV 289

  25. Henry Purcell
  26. Secrecie's song

  27. Clément Janequin: Escoutez tous gentilz Galloys
  28. La bataille de Marignan

  29. Johann Sebastian Bach: Messes. BWV 232. Si mineur
  30. Agnus Dei

  31. Franz Xaver Gruber
  32. Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht

  33. Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
  34. Salve Regina N4

  35. Anon.
  36. Greensleeves

  37. Telemann
  38. Weg mit Sodoms gift'gen

  39. François Couperin: Trois leçons de ténèbres à une et à deux voix
  40. Leçons de Ténèbres

  41. Johann Sebastian Bach
  42. Widerstehe doch der Sünde BWV 54

  43. Henry Purcell: Come, ye sons of art, Z323 (Ode on the Birthday of Mary II, 1694)
  44. Strike the viol (counter-tenor, flute)

  45. Johann Sebastian Bach: Widerstehe doch der Sünde. BWV 54
  46. Wer Sünden tut

  47. Claudio Monteverdi / O. Rinuccini (t)
    Published in Il sesto libro de' madrigali, Venice, 1614

    Lamento d'Arianna (sv107)
  48. Part One: Lasciatemi morire

  49. Henry Purcell
  50. Music for a while. Z 583 n 2

  51. Pierre Passereau
  52. Il est bel et bon commere mon mary

  53. Henry Purcell: Hail, bright Cecilia. Z 328
  54. Here the deities approve

Playing time: 57' 04" + 53' 20" = 110' 24"

Artists:
[1] Nigel Shorth (countertenor)
[2]-[7], [9]-[12], [14], [16]-[17], [19], [22]-[26], [28] Alfred Deller (counter-tenor)
[8] Gérard Lesne (counter-tenor)
[13] Alfred Deller (counter-tenor), Mark Deller (counter-tenor)
[15], [27] Deller Consort
[18], [20] James Bowman (counter-tenor)
[21] Alfred Deller (counter-tenor), Wilfred Brown (tenor)

Recording site and date:
See Excerpts (from original release)

Excerpts (from original release):
[1] unknown
[2], [17] Vanguard VRS 499 [LP, mono] The Holly and the Ivy - Christmas Carols of Old England
[3] Vanguard "The Bach Guild" BG 661 [LP, mono] Handel - 3 Coronation Anthems & Ode for the birthday of Queen Anne
[4], [11], [23] Vanguard "The Bach Guild" BG 635 [LP, mono] Henry Purcell: Come Ye sons of Art (Ode on the birthday of Queen Mary, 1694)
[5], [9], [19] Vanguard VRS 479 [LP, mono] The Three Ravens - Songs of Folk and Minstrelsy out of Elizabethan England
[6], [16], [22], [24] Vanguard "The Bach Guild" BG 550 [LP, mono] Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantate 170 & 54 - Agnus Dei
[7], [26] Vanguard "The Bach Guild" BG 570 / 71 [LP, mono] Homage to Purcell or Henry Purcell - Celebrated Songs
[8] unknown
[10], [15] Vanguard "The Bach Guild" BG 604 [LP, mono] Madrigals Masterpieces - The Renaissance in France, Italy and England
[12] Vanguard "The Bach Guild" BG 551 [LP, mono] Thomas Tallis: The Lamentations of Jeremiah & 5 hymns (Cantiones Sacrae)
[13] Vanguard "The Bach Guild" BG 691 [LP, mono] Duos de Contre-Tnors - Duets for Counter-tenors
[14] Vanguard "The Bach Guild" BG 547 [LP, mono] Music of Henry Purcell, Matthew Locke & John Jenkins
[18] unknown
[20] unknown
[21] Vanguard "The Bach Guild" BG 613 [LP, mono] François Couperin: Leçons de Ténèbres
[25] Vanguard "The Bach Guild" BG 671 [LP, mono] Lamento d'Arianna and other madrigals - Madrigal Masterpieces, vol. 3
[27] Vanguard "The Bach Guild" BG 639 [LP, mono] Madrigal Masterpieces vol. 2
[28] Vanguard "The Bach Guild" BG 590 [LP, mono] Purcell: Ode on St. Cecilia's Day (1683) - Blow: Ode on the death of Mr. Henry Purcell

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Pierre-F. Roberge