Tallis: Lamentations & Hymns

Thomas Tallis: The Lamentations of Jeremiah the Prophet

and hymns for alternating plainsong and polyphony
The Deller Consort - Alfred Deller, dir.
Vanguard "The Bach Guild" BG-551 [LP, mono, NA]
Pye Vanguard PVL 7072 [LP, mono. UK]
Vanguard SRV 287 [LP, stereo electr.]
Vanguard "The Bach Guild" HM-5 [LP]
Vanguard Classics (Arcade) "Musica Sacra" 08 5028 71 [CD, Europe]
Vanguard Classics (Arcade) "Alfred Deller Edition" 08 5062 71 [CD-Europe]

Contents:

Thomas Tallis: The Lamentations of Jeremiah the Prophet

1. Part I
   1. Incipit Lamentatio Jeremiae Prophetae
   2. Aleph; Quomodo sedet
   3. Beth
   4. Plorans ploravit

Thomas Tallis: The Lamentations of Jeremiah the Prophet

2. Part II
   1. De Lamentatione Jeremiae Prophetae
   2. Ghimel
   3. Migravit Judas
   4. Daleth:
      
   5. Omnes persecutores
   6. Heth
   7. Facti sunt

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Thomas Tallis: Hymns for alternating plainsong and polyphony

3. Jesu salvator saeculi
4. Deus tuorum militum
5. O nata lux de lumine
6. Jam Christus astra ascenderat
7. Salvator mundi Domine

Playing time: 45' 06"

Performers:
The Deller Consort
[1]-[2] Alfred Deller (counter-tenor), Gerald English (tenor), Wilfred Brown (tenor), Maurice Bevan (baritone), John Frost (bass)
[3]-[7] Alfred Deller (counter-tenor), Gerald English (tenor), Wilfred Brown (tenor), Maurice Bevan (baritone), John Frost (bass), Eileen McLoughlin (soprano)
Alfred Deller, dir.

Recording site and date:
Walthamstow Hall, London, UK [1955];
Rel.: 1955

Excerpts:
[1]-[2] Vanguard Classics (Omega) "The Bach Guild" OVC 2525 Thomas Tallis: The Lamentations of Jeremiah & Couperin: Leçons des Ténèbres
[1], [4] Vanguard (Silverminds Music) Classics 99 220 [CD] 50 years of The Deller Consort - The early years 1955-1963
[2.6] Vanguard "The Bach Guild" BG-606 [LP, mono, NA] Musical Panorama of Shakespearean England

Reviewed in:
Diapason (#-p.): 409-188 (november 1994 (as Vanguard Classics 08 5062 71))
Gramophone (Vol./#-p.): 36/422 (july 1958 (as Pye Vanguard PVL 7072); 50/597-1561 (february 1973 (as Vanguard HM-5))

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