Tavern Songs:

Tavern Songs
Catches, Glees and other diverse entertainments of merrie England
Deller Consort - Alfred Deller, dir.
Vanguard (Arcade) Classics "Alfred Deller Edition" 08 5039 71 [CD, Europe]
Vanguard (Arcade) Classics "Alfred Deller Edition" 300 329-2 [CD, France]

Contents:

    "A choice collection of the most diverting CATCHES, composed by Mr. Henry Purcell"
    Henry Purcell:
  1. Man is for the woman made
  2. Sir Walter
  3. To thee and to the maid
  4. Chiding catch ("Fie, Nay")
  5. Once, twice, thrice
  6. When the cock begins to crow
  7. An epitaph: "Under this stone"

    8. "Love songs, ribald and tender"
    Earl of Mornington:
  8. T'was you, Sir

    9. Jeremy Savile:
  9. Had she not care enough

    10. William Turner:
  10. Young Anthony

    11. Anon.:
  11. Amo, amas, I love a lass

    12. William Cornyshe:
  12. Ah, Robin

    13. William Lawes
  13. Bess black

    14. "Drinking songs and tavern philosophies"
    Anon.:
  14. I am athirst

    15. John Eccles:
  15. Wine does wonder

    16. William Cornyshe:
  16. Hoyda, jolly rutterkin

    17. Henry Purcell:
  17. An ape, a lion, a fox and an ass

    18. Anon.:
  18. Troll the bowl

    19. John Travers:
  19. Fair and ugly, false and true

    20. "Two centuries of English life in song"
    Anon.:
  20. We be soldiers three

    21. John Bennet:
  21. Hunting madrigal: Lure, falconers, lure!

    22. Henry Lawes: Age of Milton
  22. Sing, fair Clorinda

    23. Benjamin Rogers:
  23. Restoration pastoral: In the merry month of May

    24. Henry Purcell:
  24. Patriotic song: True Englismen

    25. Reginald Spofforth:
  25. 18th century glee club: L'ape e la serpe

    26. "The Pleasures of Drink"
    John Hilton:
  26. Call George again

    27. "Country Side Pleasantries"
    Luffman Atterbury:
  27. As t'other day

    28. "Sophisticated Rake and Innocent Maid"
    Thomas Arne:
  28. The street intrigue

    29. "Strange Sights in the Countryside"
    John Blow:
  29. Batholomew Fair

    30. "Meanwhile at the Tavern"
    Anon.:
  30. He that will an alehouse keep

    31. "The hopeless Lover"
    John Blow:
  31. The self banished

    32. "The Wedding Night"
    Anon.:
  32. Inigo Jones

    33. "More Drinking"
    Thomas Arne:
  33. Which is the properest day to drink

    34. "Trials of Married Life"
    John Blow:
  34. Galloping Joan

    35. "Spring is Ending"
    Anon.:
  35. Sumer is icumen in

    36. "Scenes of Married Life"
    William Boyce:
  36. John Cooper

    37. "The Pleading Lover"
    Henry Lawes:
  37. The captive lovers

    38. "More Scenes of Married Life"
    Henry Purcell:
  38. Young Collin

    39. "To Drink or not to Drink"
    Henry Purcell:
  39. If all be true

    40. "A Child and a Lullaby"
    Joseph Barnby:
  40. Sweet and low

Playing time: 77' 45"

Performers:
Deller Consort [Alfred Deller (countetenor), Gerald English (tenor), Wilfred Brown (tenor), Maurice Bevan (baritone), Edgar Fleet (tenor), Owen Grundy (baritone)] - Alfred Deller, dir.

Recording site and date:
[1]-[25] Walthamstow Town Hall, Greater London [1956]
[26]-[40] Unknown [05/1960]

Compilation: The two LPs listed in the excerpts section were also released in a double album using the same numbers.

Excerpts:
[1]-[25] Vanguard "The Bach Guild " BG-561 [LP] Tavern Songs Catches and Glees and other diverse entertainment of merrie England.
[26]-[40] Vanguard "The Bach Guild " BG-602 [LP] Tavern Songs Vol. II A collection of catch and glees both ribald and refined
[20], [21], [30] Vanguard "The Bach Guild" BG-606 [LP] Musical Panorama of Shakespearean England
[40] Vanguard Classics 08 9087 72 [CD] The art of Alfred Deller [European market]

Reviewed in:
Diapason (#-p.): 420-180 (november 1995)
Gramophone (Vol./#-p.):
Fanfare (Vol./#-p.):

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