Musical Panorama of Shakespeare's England

Musical Panorama of Shakespeare's England
Deller Consort, Alfred Deller, Wenzinger Consort of viols, April Cantelo, Eileen McLoughlin, Desmond Dupré, Taylor Recorder Consort, Gustav Leonhardt, Ambrosian Singers
Vanguard « The Bach Guild » BG-606 [LP, mono]
Fontana TFL 6022 [LP, mono, UK]
Vanguard Classics (Arcade) « Alfred Deller Edition » 08 5075 71 [CD, Europe]
Vanguard Classics (Arcade) « Alfred Deller Edition » 300 393-2 [CD, France]

Contents:

    Anon., pub. 1614:
  1. We be soldiers three

    2. John Dowland:
  2. Air for lute solo: My Lady Hunsdon's Puffe

    3. Anon.:
  3. Heigh Ho, the Wind and the Rain

    4. John Wilbye, The second set of madrigals XXV (1609)
  4. Ye that do live in pleasures plenty

    5. Anon., Dorothy Welde Lute book:
  5. Munday's Joy
    Watkin's Ale

    6. Thomas Ravenscroft, (ed. D. Stevens)
  6. New Oysters

    7. Thomas Tallis: Cantiones sacrae (1575)
  7. O nata lux de lumine

    8. Robert Johnson (set by Gilles Farnaby):
  8. Alman for harpsichord

    9. Anon.:
  9. Have you seen but a white lilly

    10. Anon., Dolmetsch Collection: Consorts
  10. Frog Galliard (arr. C. Dolmetsch)
    Coranto (arr. A. Dolmetsch)
    Borey "Mr. Tollett" (arr. C. Dolmetsch)
    John Bennet:
  11. Hunting madrigal: Lure, falconers, lure!

    12. —
    Anon., ca 16-17th c.:
  12. Greensleeves

    13. Anon., ca 15th c.:
  13. Boar's Head Carol

    14. Thomas Morley: The First Booke of Canzonets, iii (1595)
  14. Sweet Nymph

    15. Alphonse Ferrabosco II:
  15. Fantasias for Viols in G Minor

    16. Anon.:
  16. The Agincourt song: Deo gracias, Anglia

    17. Anon., arr. Warlock, Add. Mss 18936-9, British Museum:
  17. O Death, Rock Me Asleep

    18. Anon.:
  18. He who will an alehouse keep

    19. Anon.:
  19. Lord Rendall

    20. William Byrd
  20. Non nobis Domine

Playing time: 44' 03"

Performers:
Deller Consort, Alfred Deller (countertenor), Wenzinger Consort of viols - August Wenzinger, dir., April Cantelo (soprano), Eileen McLoughlin (soprano), Desmond Dupré (lute), Taylor Recorder Consort, Gustav Leonhardt (harpsichord), Ambrosian Singers

Recording site and date:
Various places [1959 and prior]

Excerpts from (original LP release):
[1], [11] Vanguard « The Bach Guild » BG-561 [LP, mono] Tavern Songs Catches and Glees and other diverse entertainment
[2], [8] Vanguard « The Bach Guild » BG-539 [LP.mono] Elizabethan and Jacobean Music
[3], [12] Vanguard VRS-479 [LP, mono] English Folk Songs: The Three Ravens
[4] Vanguard « The Bach Guild » BG-578 [LP, mono] The English Madrigal School, vol. 4: John Wilbye
[5], [10], [19] Vanguard VRS 1001 [LP, mono] The Wraggle Taggle Gypsies
[6] Vanguard « The Bach Guild » BG 563 [LP, monp] The Cries of London
[7] Vanguard « The Bach Guild » BG-551 [LP, mono] Thomas Tallis: The Lamentations of Jeremiah & 5 hymns (Cantiones Sacrae)
[9] Vanguard « The Bach Guild » BG-576 [LP, mono] English Lute Songs and Six In Nomines
[13] Vanguard VRS-499 [LP, mono] The Holly and the Ivy
[14] Vanguard « The Bach Guild » BG-553 [LP, mono] The English Madrigal School vol. I
[15], [17] Vanguard « The Bach Guild » BG-557 [LP, mono] William Byrd and His Age
[16], [20] ?
[18] Vanguard « The Bach Guild » BG-602 / BGS 5030 [LP, mono/stereo] Tavern Songs Vol. II A collection of catch and glees both ribald and refined

Reviewed in:
Gramophone (Vol./#-p.): 40/477-395 (Feb 1963)

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