The English Madrigal School, Vol. 4

The English Madrigal School, Vol. 4
Madrigals of John Wilbye
Deller Consort - Alfred Deller, dir.
Vanguard « The Bach Guild » BG-578 [LP, mono, NA]
Vanguard « The Bach Guild » BGS 5003 [LP, stereo, NA]
Vanguard « The Bach Guild &ndsh; Historical Anthology of Music » HM-74 SD [LP ]
Vanguard Classics (Arcade) « Alfred Deller Edition » 08 5080 71 [CD, Europe]

Contents:

    John Wilbye

    The First Set of English Madrigals (1598)
  1. xi: Thus saith my Cloris bright

    2. The Second Set of Madrigals (1609)
  2. xvi: Happy, O happy he, who not affecting
  3. xxv: Ye that do live in pleasures plenty
  4. xxx: Ah, cannot sigh, nor tears, nor aught else move thee
  5. xxxii: Stay, Corydon, thou swain
  6. xxxi: Draw on, sweet Night, best friend unto those cares

    7. The First Set of English Madrigals (1598):
  7. xviii: Lady, your words do spite me

    8. —
    The Second Set of Madrigals (1609)
  8. v: As fair as morn, as fresh as May
  9. xxiii: Weep, weep, mine eyes, my heart can take no rest

    10. The First Set of English Madrigals (1598):
  10. xvi: I always beg, yet never am relieved
  11. xvii: Thus love commands that I in vain complain me

    12. The Second Set of Madrigals (1609)
  12. xx: Oft I have vowed how dearly I did love thee
  13. i: Come, shepherd swains, that wont to hear me sing

    14. The Triumphs of Oriana (1601):
  14. xv: The Lady Oriana

Playing time: 44' 53"

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

Recording site and date:
Walthamstow Hall, London, UK [06/1957];
Rel.: 1958

Compilation:
Musical Concepts MC 196 [CDx6 + CD-ROM] Alfred Deller « The Complete Vanguard Recordings », Volume FIVE: English, French and Italian Madrigals

Excerpts:
[1] Vanguard VSD 729/30 [LPx2] The Art of Alfred Deller
[1]-[7] Vanguard « Everyman classics » SRV 157 SD [LP] The English madrigal school: Madrigals of John Wilbye and Thomas Morley.
[2], [9] Vanguard Classics VCD 72 032 [CD] Now is the Month of Maying
[3] Vanguard « The Bach Guild » BG-606 [LP. mono] Musical Panorama of Shakespeare's England.
[6] Vanguard Classics (Silverminds Music) 99 220 [CD] 50 years of The Deller Consort – The early years 1955-1963.

Reviewed in:
Gramophone (Vol./#-p.): 47/559- (dec. 1969 (VSL 1 078))

Comments:
Information from CD
This is the fourth of a serie of four original LPs of english madrigals; other releases being:
Vanguard « The Bach Guild » BG 553 The English Madrigal School, vol. 1
Vanguard « The Bach Guild » BG 554 The English Madrigal School, vol. 2
Vanguard « The Bach Guild » BG 577 The English Madrigal School, vol. 3

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