The English Madrigal School vol. 2

The English Madrigal School vol. 2
The Deller Consort - Alfred Deller, dir.
Vanguard "The Bach Guild" BG-554 [LP, mono, NA market]
Amadeo AVR 6072 [LP, mono, European market]

Contents:

    Thomas Wilbye: The Second Set of Madrigals, xvii-xviii (1609)
  1. Sweet honey-sucking bees

    2. Robert Johnson, British Museum Add. Ms. 30513:
  2. Defiled is my name

    3. Thomas Weelkes: Ballets and Madrigals for Five Voices, v (1598)
  3. On the plains, fairy trains

    4. Richard Edwards, British Museum Add. Ms. 30513:
  4. When griping griefs

    5. Thomas Weelkes: Ballets and Madrigal for Five Voices, i (1598)
  5. All at once well met

    6. Thomas Tallis, British Museum Add. Ms. 30513:
  6. Like as the doleful dove

    7. Anon., British Museum Add. Ms. 30513:
  7. The bitter sweet

    8. Thomas Wilbye: The First Set of English Madrigals, xxii (1598)
  8. Flora gave me fairest flowers

    9. John Shepherd, British Museum Add. Ms. 30513:
  9. O happy dames

    10. Thomas Weelkes: Madrigals to 3, 4, 5 Voyces, viii (1597)
  10. Young cupid hath proclaimed

    11. Anon., British Museum Add. Ms. 30513:
  11. The happy life (My friends, the thing I smile to see)

    12. Thomas Weelkes: Madrigals of 6 parts, vii (1600)
  12. Thule, the period of cosmography

    13. Anon., British Museum Add. Ms. 30513:
  13. I smile to see how you devise

    14. Robert Johnson, British Museum Add. Ms. 4900; 30513:
  14. Benedicam Domino

    15. Thomas Wilbye: The First set of English Madrigals, x (1598)
  15. Lady, when I behold

    16. Thomas Wilbye: The First set of English Madrigals, xii (1598)
  16. Adieu, sweet Amaryllis

Playing time: 46' 56" app.

Performers:
Deller Consort
April Cantelo (soprano), Eileen McLoughlin (soprano), Wifred Brown (tenor), Gerald English (tenor), Maurice Bevan (baritone)
Alfred Deller, dir.

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

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

Excerpts:
[3], [5], [12], [16] Vanguard Classics VCD 72 032 Now is the Month of Maying
[1], [16] Vanguard (Silverminds Music) Classics 99 220 [CD] 50 years of The Deller Consort - The early years 1955-1963.

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Comments:
This is the second of a serie of four original LPs of english madrigals; other releases being:
Vanguard "The Bach Guild" BG 553 The English Madrigals School, vol. 1
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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