William Byrd and His Age

Byrd et son Temps - Byrd and his Age
Alfred Deller & Wenzinger Consort of Viols of the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis - August Wenzinger, dir.
Vanguard « The Bach Guild » BG-557 [LP, mono, NA]
Amadeo AVR ???? [LP, mono, Europe]
Vanguard (Pye) « The Bach Guild » PVL 7035 [LP, mono, UK]
Vanguard Classics (Arcade) « Édition Alfred Deller » 08 5068 71 [CD, Europe]
Vanguard Classics (Arcade-France) « Édition Alfred Deller » 302 465 [CD, France]
Vanguard Classics (Omega) « Alfred Deller Edition 2 » OVC 8 101 [CD, NA]

Contents:

    Anon., arr. Edmund Fellowes, British Museum, Add. Mss. 17, 786-91
  1. My Sweet Little Darling

    2. Anon., arr. Peter Warlock, Christ Church, Oxford, Mss. 984-8
  2. Guichardo

    3. William Corkine, arr. Thurston Dart:
  3. What Bootheth Love ?

    4. William Byrd
  4. Fantasias for Viols in G minor

    5. Alphonse Ferrabosco IInd
  5. Fantasias for Viols in F Major

    6. Anon., arr. Peter Warlock, Christ Church, Oxford, Mss 984-8
  6. Ah, Silly Poor Joas

    7. Thomas Whythorne, arr. Peter Warlock
  7. Buy New Broom

    8. William Byrd, arr. Fellowes, Elegy on the death of Thomas Tallis, 1585
  8. Ye Sacred Muses

    9. William Byrd, arr. Edmund Fellowes, Psalms, Sonnets, and Songs of Sadness and Piety, made into Music of Five Parts, 1588
  9. Lullaby, My Sweet Little Baby

    10. Richard Nicholson, arr. Peter Warlock, British Museum, Add. Mss 17, 79 ?
  10. In a Merry May Morn

    11. Robert Parsons, arr. Peter Warlock
  11. Pandolpho

    12. Alphonse Ferrabosco IInd
  12. Fantasias for Viols in G Minor

    13. William Byrd, arr. Peter le Huray & Thurston Dart
  13. Come, pretty Babe

    14. Anon., arr. Peter Warlock, Add. Mss 18, 936-9, British Museum
  14. O Death, Rock Me Asleep

Playing time: 44' 09"

Performers:
Alfred Deller (counter-tenor)
Wenzinger Consort of Viols of the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis
August Wenzinger, dir.

Recording site and date:
Friends' Meeting House, Edgeware Road, London, UK [02/1956];
Rel.: 1956

Excerpts:
[1]-[3], [6]-[11], [13]-[14] Musical Concepts MC 195 [CDx6 + CD-ROM] Alfred Deller « The Complete Vanguard Recordings », Volume FOUR: Music of Handel Bach and English Renaissance
[11] Vanguard "The Bach Guild" BGS 70-697/8 [LPx2, stereo] The art of Ornamentation and Embellishment
[12], [14] Vanguard "The Bach Guild" BG-606 [LP, mono, NA] Musical Panorama of Shakespeare's England
[13] Vanguard VSD 729/30 [LP] "The Art of Alfred Deller".

Reviewed in:
Diapason (#-p.): 409-188
Gramophone (Vol./#-p.): 35/420-502 (may 1958 (PVL)); 72/863-97 (april 1995 (as 08 5068 71))

Comments:
Information from CD. Christine Headley suggests that the recording site must actually be Friends House Euston Road, because the stated site does not exist.

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Pierre-F. Roberge