Tavern Songs

Tavern Songs
Catches, glees and other diverse entertainment of merrie England
The Deller Consort - Alfred Deller, dir.
Vanguard "The Bach Guild" BG-561 [LP, mono]
Vanguard "The Bach Guild" HM-62 SD [LP, e-stereo]

Contents:

    "A choice collection of the most diverting CATCHES, composed by Mr. Henry Purcell"

    Henry Purcell:
  1. Man is for the woman made
  2. Sir Walter
  3. To thee and to the maid
  4. Chiding catch ("Fie, Nay")
  5. Once, twice, thrice
  6. When the cock begins to crow
  7. An epitaph: "Under this stone"

    8. "Love songs, ribald and tender"

    Earl of Mornington
  8. T'was you, Sir

    9. Jeremy Savile
  9. Had she not care enough

    10. William Turner
  10. Young Anthony

    11. Anon., publ. 1764
  11. Amo, amas, I love a lass

    12. William Cornyshe:
  12. Ah, Robin

    13. William Lawes
  13. Bess black

    14. ----

    "Drinking Songs and Tavern Philosophies"

    Anon., publ. 1609
  14. I am athirst

    15. John Eccles
  15. Wine does wonder

    16. William Cornyshe
  16. Hoyda, jolly rutterkin

    17. Henry Purcell
  17. An ape, a lion, a fox and an ass

    18. Anon., coll. by Thomas Lant, 1580
  18. Troll the bowl

    19. John Travers
  19. Fair and ugly, false and true

    20. "Two centuries of English life in song"

    Anon., publ. 1614
  20. We be soldiers three

    21. John Bennet:
  21. Hunting madrigal: Lure, falconers, lure!

    22. Henry Lawes: Age of Milton
  22. Sing fair Clorinda

    23. Benjamin Rogers
  23. Restoration pastoral: In the merry month of May

    24. Henry Purcell
  24. Patriotic song: True Englismen

    25. Reginald Spofforth
  25. 18th century glee club: L'ape e la serpe

Playing time: 49' 55" app.

Performers:
The Deller Consort
Alfred Deller (counter-tenor), Gerald English (tenor), Wilfred Brown (tenor), Maurice Bevan (baritone)
Alfred Deller, dir.

Recording site and date:
Walthamstow Town Hall, Greater London [1956];
Rel.: 1956

Compilation:
Vanguard Classics 08 5039 71 Tavern Songs - 40 Catches, Glees etc. of Merrie England.

Excerpts:
[20], [21] Vanguard "The Bach Guild" BG-606 [LP, mono] Musical Panorama of Shakespeare's England
[2], [10]-[12], [16], [23] Vanguard (Silverminds Music) Classics 99 220 [CD] 50 years of The Deller Consort - The early years 1955-1963.

Reviewed in:
Diapason (#-p.):
Gramophone (Vol./#-p.):
Fanfare (Vol./#-p.):

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Pierre-F. Roberge