The English Madrigal School Vol. 2

The English Madrigal School, Vvol. 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 (1609)
  1. xvii-xviii: 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 (1598)
  3. v: 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 Voicesi (1598)
  5. i: 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 (1598)
  8. xxii: 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 (1597)
  10. viii: 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 (1600)
  12. vii: 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 Madrigal (1598)
  15. x: Lady, when I behold
  16. xii: 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 Classics (Arcade) « The Bach Guild – Historical Anthology » 08 2019 72 The English Madrigal School
Musical Concepts MC 197 [CDx6 + CD-ROM] Alfred Deller « The Complete Vanguard Recordings », Volume SIX: English, French and Italian Madrigals

Excerpts:
[3], [5], [12], [16] Vanguard Classics VCD 72 032 Now is the Month of Maying
[1], [16] Vanguard Classics (Silverminds Music) 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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