Duets for Counter-tenors

Duos de Contre-Ténors - Duets for Counter-tenors
Alfred Deller, Mark Deller, Ensemble of Baroque Instruments
Vanguard "The Bach Guild" BG-691 [LP mono]
Vanguard "The Bach Guild" BGS-70691 [LP stereo]
Vanguard VSL 11 047 [LP, UK]
Vanguard "Cardinal" VCS 10022 [LP]
Vanguard C 10022 [Cass.]
Columbia C 10022 [Cass., UK]
Vanguard (Arcade) Classics "Alfred Deller Edition" 08 5067 71 [CD]

Contents:

    Thomas Morley: The First Book of Canzonets to Two Voices, 1595
  1. Sweet Nymph, Come to Thy Lover

    2. Henry Purcell: "Love's Goddess" Birthday Song for Queen Mary, 1692
  2. Sweetness of Nature

    3. Heinrich Schütz: Small Sacred Concertos, 1636/1639
  3. Erhore mich, wenn ich rufe

    4. Robert Jones: "A Musicall Dreame" or 4th Book of Airs
  4. Sweet Kate

    5. Anon., Fayrfax Ms.:
  5. Tudor carol: Ah, My Dear Son

    6. Claudio Monteverdi
    Published in Sacred Monodies and Motets, Venice, 1625
  6. Currite, populi, psallite timpanis (sv297)

    7. Thomas Morley: Canzonets for Two Voices
  7. Miraculous love's wounding
  8. I go before, my darling

    9. Heinrich Schütz: Small sacred concertos
  9. Der Herr ist gross

    10. Claudio Monteverdi / Petrarch (t)
    Published in Sacrae cantiunculae liber primus, Venice, 1582
  10. Angelus ad pastores ait (sv222)

    11. Claudio Monteverdi
    Published in Sacred Monodies and Motets, Calvo, 1620
  11. Fuge anima mea mundum (sv305)

    12. Claudio Monteverdi
    Published in Sacred Monodies and Motets, Venice, 1625
  12. Salve Regina (sv327)

    13. John Blow: Amphion Anglicus (London, 1600)
  13. If my Celia could persuade
  14. Ah Heav'n! What is it I hear?

    15. Richard Deering: Cantica Sacra (London, 1662)
  15. O bone Jesu
  16. Gaudent in coelis

Playing time: 48' 40"

Performers:
[6], [12] Alfred Deller (counter-tenor)
Ensemble of Baroque Instruments
[1]-[5], [7]-[11], [13]-[16] Alfred Deller (counter-tenor), Mark Deller (counter-tenor)
Ensemble of Baroque Instruments

Excerpts
(?) [1], [4], [7]-[8] Harmonia mundi "Deller Recordings" HMD 226 Folk Songs - Alfred and Mark Deller

Recording site and date:
Europe [1966];
Rel.: 1966 (BG), 1968 (Cardinal), 1994 (Arcade)

Reviewed in:
Diapason (#-p.): 409-188 (nov. 1994 (as Vanguard 085 067 71))
Gramophone (Vol./#-p.):
Fanfare (Vol./#-p.):

Comments:
Information from CD and Nancy Freudenthal; also from Medieval and Renaissance Music on Long-playing Records # 529.

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Pierre-F. Roberge