The English Madrigal School, vol. 1

Elizabethan Madrigals (Wilbye, Morley, Weelkes and others)
The Alfred Deller Consort - Alfred Deller, dir.
Vanguard "The Bach Guild" BG-553 [LP, mono, NA]
Amadeo AVR 6071 [LP, mono, Europe]

Contents:

    Thomas Morley: Madrigals to Foure Voyces, xviii (1594)
  1. Ho! Who comes here?

    2. Thomas Weelkes: Madrigals to 3, 4, 5 voyces, vi (1597)
  2. Cease sorrows now

    3. Thomas Vautor: Songs of divers Ayres and Natures, iv (1619)
  3. Mother, I will have a husband

    4. Richard Edwards:The Mulliner Book, f. 79 v.
  4. In going to my naked bed

    5. Thomas Weelkes: Balletts and Madrigals, ii (1598)
  5. To shorten Winter's sadness

    6. Thomas Weelkes: Madrigals of 5 (and 6), parts iv-v (1600)
  6. O Care, thou wilt despatch me

    7. John Bartlett: A Booke of Ayres, 10 (1606)
  7. Of all the birds that I do know

    8. ----
    John Bennet: The Triumphes of Oriana, iv (1601)
  8. All creatures are now merry-minded

    9. Thomas Morley: The First Booke of Canzonets, iii (1595)
  9. Sweet nymph

    10. John Bennet: Madrigalls to Foure Voyces, xiii (1599)
  10. Weep O mine eyes

    11. Thomas Weelkes: Ayres or Phantasticke Spirites, x (1608)
  11. The Ape, the Monkey and the Baboon

    12. John Wilbye: The Second Set of Madrigals, xx (1609)
  12. Oft have I vowed

    13. Thomas Weelkes: Ayres or Phantasticke Spirites, xviii (1608)
  13. Strike it up, Tabor

    14. John Ward: The First Set of English Madrigals, xvii (1613)
  14. Hope of my heart

Playing time: 39' 58"

Performers:
The Alfred Deller Consort
April Cantelo (soprano), Alfed Deller (counter-tenor), Eileen McLoughlin (soprano), Wilfred Brown (tenor), Gerald English (tenor), Maurice Bevan (baritone)
Alfred Deller, dir.

Recording site and date:
Walthamstow Hall, London, UK [11/1955];
Rel.: 1956

Compilation (initial release):
Vanguard "The Bach Guild" BG-553/554 [LP] The English Madrigal School, vol. 1 and 2
Vanguard (Arcade) Classics "Historical Anthology - The Bach Guild" 08 2019 72 [CDx2] The English Madrigal School.

Excerpts (initial release):
[2], [3], [6]-[8], [10], [14] Vanguard Classics VCD 72 032 [CD] Now is the Month of Maying
[5] Vanguard VSD 729/30 [LPx2] The Art of Alfred Deller
[9] Vanguard "The Bach Guild" BG-606 Musical Panorama of Shakespeare's England

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Comments:
Information from owned LP
This is the first of a serie of four original LPs of english madrigals; originally titled "Elizabethan Madrigals", it was later renamed "The English Madrigals School, vol. I" other releases being:
Vanguard "The Bach Guild" BG 554 The English Madrigals School, vol. 2
Vanguard "The Bach Guild" BG 577 The English Madrigals School, vol. 3
Vanguard "The Bach Guild" BG 578 The English Madrigals School, vol. 4

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