Deller's Choice

Deller's Choice
A Concert of Music both Rare and Rewarding
Alfred Deller, Gustave Leonhardt, Marie Leonhardt, Robert Scheiwein
Vanguard « The Bach Guild » BG-612 [LP, mono, NA]
Vanguard « The Bach Guild » BGS-5038 [LP, stereo, NA]
Vanguard Vanguard VSL 11 081 [LP, stereo, UK]
Vanguard Classics 08 5059 71 [CD, Europe]
Vanguard Classics « The Bach Guild » ATM 1250 [CD]

Contents:

    Lodovico Viadana (aka: Lodovico Grossi, c.1560-1627): Cento Concerti Ecclesiastici, Venise 1602
  1. Exaudi me Domine

    2. Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672): Symphoniae Sacrae, Venice 1629
  2. In te Domine speravi

    3. Matthew Locke (1621-1677)
  3. Voluntary in G for organ (Melothsia, 1673)

    4. Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
  4. The Queen's Epicedium (Elegy on the death of Queen Mary, 1695)

    5. Matthew Locke (1621-1677)
  5. Voluntary in F for organ (Melothsia, 1673)

    6. Pelham Humfrey (or Hemphryes, 1647-1674)
  6. A Hymn to God the Father (Harmonia Sacra, Book I, 1688)

    7. —
    Cipriano de Rore (m) / Alfonso d'Avalos, Marquis del Vasto (t); Bovicelli (vocal line orn.)
    Published in Regole, Passagi di Musica, Madrigali, e Motetti Paseggiati, 1594
  7. Anchor che col partire

    8. Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643)
  8. Toccata in D for harpsichord (Primo Libro, 1615)

    9. John Blow (1648-1708)
  9. The Self-Banished

    10. John Weldon (1676-1736)
  10. The Nightingale

    11. Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759)
  11. Dove sei (from Rodelinda, 1725)

    12. Johann Jakob Froberger (1616-1667)
  12. Toccata in D

    13. Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
    (attributed to possibly Gottfried Heinrich Stölzell)
  13. Bist du bei mir (from the Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach, 1725)

Playing time: 44' 21"

Performers:
Alfred Deller (counter-tenor): [1]-[2], [4], [6]-[7], [9]-[11], [13]
Gustav Leonhardt (organ): [1]-[3], [5]-[6]; (harpsichord): [4], [7]-[13]
Marie Leonhardt (violin): [2]
Robert Scheiwein (cello): [2]

Recording site and date:
Vienna, Austria [1959];
Rel.: 1960

Excerpts:
[1]-[2], [7] Musical Concepts MC 197 [CDx6 + CD-ROM] Alfred Deller « The Complete Vanguard Recordings », Volume SIX: Music of the French and Italian Renaissance
[3]-[6], [9]-[11], [13] Musical Concepts MC 195 [CDx6 + CD-ROM] Alfred Deller « The Complete Vanguard Recordings », Volume FOUR: Music of Handel Bach and English Renaissance
[7] Vanguard "The Bach Guild" BGS 70-697/8 [LPx2, stereo] The art of Ornamentation and Embellishment

Reviewed in:
Gramophone (Vol./#-p.): 47/560 - (January 1970 (as VSL 11 081))

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Pierre-F. Roberge