The Art of Ornamentation and Embellishment

The Art of Ornamentation and Embellishment
A.Deller & Deller Comsort - M. Forrester - I. Kipnis - A. Janigro & Solisti di Zagreb - A. Heiller - J. Tomasow - G. Leonhardt - C. Mackerras - & others
Vanguard "The Bach Guild" BGS 70-697 / 98 [LPx2]
Vanguard "The Bach Guild" Historical Anthology of Music HM 47/48 SD [LPx2]
Vanguard (Arcade) "The Bach Guild" 08 2036 72 [CDx2 - European market]
Vanguard (Omega) Classics OVC 2537 / 38 [CDx2 - NA market]

Contents:

    LP or CD-1

    Renaissance

    Antonio Archilei: Les Fêtes de de Florence (1589) - Musique des Intermèdes de la "La Pellegrina"
  1. Intermezzo (instr.): Dalle più alte sfere
  2. Intermezzo (vocal): Dalle più alte sfere

    3. Cipriano de Rore (m) / Alfonso d'Avalos, Marquis del Vasto (t)
    Published in Primo Libro di Madrigali a 4, 1547
  3. Anchor che col partire

    4. 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
  4. Anchor che col partire

    5. Claudio Merulo:
  5. Canzona (instr. Consort): La Zambeccara
  6. Canzona (keyboard version): La Zambeccara

    7. Anon., 15th c.:
  7. Frottola (orig.): Ay me sospiri
  8. Frottola (ornam., Renaissance): Ay me sospiri

    9. Francesco de Layolle:
  9. Four-part madrigal (as written): Lasciar il velo
  10. Four-part madrigal (vocal ornam.): Lasciar il velo

    11. Paul Hofhaimer:
  11. German Renaissance Lied: Nach willen dein
  12. German Renaissance Lied (organ version): Nach willen dein

    13. Renaissance, Early & Middle Baroque

    Pierre Sandrin:
  13. French Chanson: Douce mémoire
  14. French Chanson (ornam. Instr.): Douce mémoire

    15. Robert Parsons:
  15. English song (voice): Pandolpho
  16. English song (voice with lute): Pandolpho

    17. Claudio Monteverdi: Il Combatimento di Tancredi
  17. Excerpt - two verses (plain version)
  18. Excerpt - two verses (editorial ornam.version)

    19. Antoine Boësset:
  19. French air de cour, four-part: N'espérez plus, mes yeux
  20. French air de cour, four-part (with ornam. Vocal line): N'espérez plus, mes yeux

    21. Thomas Brewer:
  21. English sacred song: O that mine eyes
  22. English sacred song (ornam.): O that mine eyes

    23. Arcangelo Corelli: Sonata in C, Op. 5, No. 3
  23. Adagio (violon solo)
  24. Adagio (ornam.)

    25. LP or CD-2

    Middle and Late Baroque

    François Couperin:
  25. Menuet (harps.)
  26. Menuet (harps.with ornam. double)

    27. Aleesandro Marcello: Oboe Concerto in C minor
  27. Adagio (concerto mov.)
  28. Adagio (ornam. keyboard. transcr.)

    29. Antonio Vivaldi: Violin Concerto in D, Op. 3, No. 9 (RV 230)
  29. Finale (concerto mov.)
  30. Finale (ornam. keyboard. transcr. by J.S. Bach)

    31. Antonio Vivaldi: Violin Concerto in C for Two Trumpets, Strings and Continuo (RV 537)
  31. Largo (as in score)
  32. Largo (modern real. and embel. of bass follow. Baroque practice)

    33. George Frideric Handel: Rodelinda
  33. Lascia ch'io pianga (as written)
  34. Lascia ch'io pianga (embel. repeat, da capo)

    35. George Frideric Handel.: Suite in D Minor
  35. Air (as written)
  36. Air (composer's own ornam.)

    37. Late Baroque, Rococo

    Pietro Nardini: Sonata in F for Violin and Harpsichord
  37. Adagio (violon solo as written)
  38. Adagio (composer's own ornam.)

    39. Georg Philipp Telemann: Concerto for Flute, Oboe and Violin
  39. Andante (plain version)
  40. Andante (with three ornam. instr. parts)

    41. Johann Joachim Quantz: Adagio for Flute and Harpsichord
  41. Adagio (plain version)
  42. Adagio (ornam. version in composer's own treatise

    43. Jean-Philippe Rameau: Castor et Pollux
  43. Tristes apprêts
  44. Tristes apprêts (embell. of repeat (da capo) as done by a singer of the period)

    45. Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Sonata in F
  45. Allegretto
  46. Allegretto (keyboard sonata with ornam. reprise)

    47. Georg Philipp Telemann: Trio Sonata in G for Flute, Violin and Harpsichord
  47. Grave
  48. Grave (instructional work in which the composer follows each plain section with ornam. of two instr. lines)

    49. Christoph Wiibald Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice
  49. Che farò senza Euridice (modern application of ornam.)
  50. Che farò senza Euridice (modern application of ornam.)
  51. Che farò senza Euridice (modern application of ornam.)

Playing time: 55' 07" + 52' 31" = 1h 47' 38"

Performers:
[1], [5] Jaye Consort of Viols
[2] Patricia Clark (soprano), Jaye Consort of Viols, Harold Lester (harpsichord)
[3] The Deller Consort
(?) Alfred Deller (counter-tenor), Max Worthley (tenor), Maurice Bevan (baritone), Honor Shephard (soprano)
[4] Alfred Deller (counter-tenor), Gustav Leonhardt (harpsichord)
[6], [12] Anton Heiller (organ)
[7]-[8] Jean Allister (contralto), Peter Vel (tenor viol), Jennifer Ryan (bass viol)
[9]-[11], [13], [19]-[20] Ambrosian Consort
[14] Harold Lester (harpsichord), Francis Baines (treble viol), Jennifer Ryan (bass viol)
[15] Alfred Deller (counter-tenor), Wenzinger Consort of Viols
[16] Alfred Deller (counter-tenor), Desmond Dupré (lute)
[17]-[18] Edgar Fleet (tenor), Harold Lester (harpsichord), Jennifer Ryan (bass viol)
[21]-[22] Edgar Fleet (tenor), Harold Lester (harpsichord)
[23]-[24], [37]-[38] Edward Melkus (violin), Anton Heiller (harpsichord)
[25]-[26], [28], [35]-[36] Anton Heiller (harpsichord)
[27] Bernhard Klebel (oboe), Vienna Baroque Players
[29] Jan Tomasow (violin), Chamber Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera - Mario Rossi, cond.
[30] Igor Kipnis (harpsichord
[31]-[32] Anton Heiller (harpsichord), Vienna Baroque Players
[33]-[34] Anneliese Hückl (soprano), Vienna Baroque Players
[39]-[40] Raymond Meylan (flute), André Lardrot (oboe), Jelka Stanic (violin), I Solisti di Zagreb - Antonio Janigro, cond.
[41]-[42] Leopold Stastny (flute), Anton Heiller (harpsichord)
[43]-[44] Patricia Clark (soprano), Harold Lester (harpsichord)
[45]-[46] Anton Heiller (harpsichord)
[47]-[48] Lepold Stastny (Baroque transverse flute), Edward Melkus (Baroque violin and bow), Anton Heiller (harpsichord)
[49]-[51] Maureen Forrester, Vienna State Opera Orchestra - Charles Mackerras, cond.

Excerpts (for A. Deller):
[3] Vanguard "The Bach Guild" BG-639 / BGS-5051 [LP, mono / stereo] Madrigals Masterpieces Vol. II
[4] Vanguard "The Bach Guild" BG-612 / BGS-5038 [LP, mono / stereo] Deller's Choice - A Concert of Music both Rare and Rewarding
[15] Vanguard "The Bach Guild" BG-557 [LP, mono] Byrd and his Age
[16] Vanguard "The Bach Guild" BG-539 [LP, mono] Elizabethan and Jacobean Music - Airs and Instrumental Music of England

Recording site and date:
Musikverein, Vienna, Austria [nov. 29 - dec. 2, 1966]

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