Alfred Deller: The Complete Vanguard Recordings Volume 4 — Music of Handel, Bach, and the English Renaissance

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Alfred Deller: The Complete Vanguard Recordings Volume 4 — Music of Handel, Bach, and the English Renaissance

Alfred Deller / Deller Consort / Gustav Leonhardt / Nikolaus Harnoncourt / Oriana Concert Choir / Wiener Staatsoperorchester

Musical Concepts MC-195
Number of Units: 6 CDs
EAN: 851950001957

Musical Concepts is pleased to announce the fourth volume in one of the most ambitious early music reissue projects of all time — Alfred Deller: The Complete Vanguard Recordings. The series brings together every recording made by Alfred Deller – as solo countertenor, ensemble member of the Deller Consort, and conductor – for the legendary, enterprising Vanguard record label. These recordings created a sensation with their initial release, and have influenced and inspired three generations of music lovers, from casual listeners to the top tiers of performing artists and scholars.

Many of the recordings included in this collection are definitive interpretations of vocal music of the English Renaissance, and most of these recordings are historic. Alfred Deller and Vanguard Records were at the forefront of historically informed performances of early music, and the results of that collaboration bore full fruit when focused on the music of the composers included here. This extensive collection includes the first recording of a Bach cantata using original instruments, numerous premiere recordings of the works of Byrd, Tallis and the composers of the English Renaissance, and the first complete recording of Handel’s Alexander’s Feast.

This set also includes five Tallis hymns never before released on CD, performed by the Deller Consort.

The Connoisseur's Handel

Handel: Coronation Anthems

Handel: Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne

Handel: Alexander's Feast

Bach: Cantatas 54 & 170

Elizabethan and Jacobean Music

Thomas Tallis: The Lamentations of Jeremiah the Prophet, Part I

William Byrd and His Age

Deller's Choice (selections)

Duets for Countertenors (selections)

CD 1

1 Jephta-Oratorio (1752), HWV 70 Tis Heaven's all-ruling pow'r 03:04

2 Jephta-Oratorio (1752), HWV 70 O spare your daughter 02:37

3 Jephta-Oratorio (1752), HWV 70 Laud her all ye virgin train 03:09

4 Serse-Opera (1738-London) Ombra mai fu 04:19

5 Orlando-Opera (1733-London) Ah! Stigie larve 08:05

6 L'Allegro, il Pensoroso ed il Moderato-Oratorio (1740), HWV 55 Let me wander 02:01

7 Orlando-Opera (1733-London) Cielo se tu il consenti 05:22

8 Rinaldo-Opera (1711-London) Lascia ch'io pianga 04:41

9 Theodora-Oratorio (1750), HWV 68 Kind Heav'n, if Virtue be thy care 02:36

10 Theodora-Oratorio (1750), HWV 68 Wide spread his name 02:33

11 Theodora-Oratorio (1750), HWV 68 Sweet Rose, and Lilly, flow'ry Form 03:13

12 Theodora-Oratorio (1750), HWV 68 To thee thou glorious son of worth 05:16

13 Coronation Anthems -- Zadok the priest 05:29

14 Coronation Anthems -- The King shall rejoice 11:48

15 Coronation Anthems -- Let thy hand be strenghtened 08:45

CD 2

1 Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne Largo: Eternal source of light divine 06:56

2 Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne Andante: Let all the winged … 02:59

3 Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne Andante: Let flocks … 02:26

4 Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne Let rolling streams … 02:47

5 Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne Kind health descends 06:04

6 Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne Let envy then conceal her head 02:26

7 Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne United nations shall combine 03:19

8 Cantata 170 "Vergnügte Ruh' beliebte Seelenlust" Aria: Vergnügte Ruh' 06:53

9 Cantata 170 "Vergnügte Ruh' beliebte Seelenlust" Recitative: Die Welt, das Sündenhaus 01:12

10 Cantata 170 "Vergnügte Ruh' beliebte Seelenlust" Aria: Wie jammern 08:17

11 Cantata 170 "Vergnügte Ruh' beliebte Seelenlust" Recitative: Wer solte sich 01:00

12 Cantata 170 "Vergnügte Ruh' beliebte Seelenlust" Aria: Wie leid ist mir das Leben 06:00

13 Cantata 54 "Widerstehe doch der Sünde" Aria: Widerstehe 09:01

14 Cantata 54 "Widerstehe doch der Sünde" Recitative: Die Art 01:08

15 Cantata 54 "Widerstehe doch der Sünde" Aria: Wer Sunde tut 03:25

16 Mass in b minor, BWV233 Agnus Dei 05:35

CD 3

1 Alexander's Feast - Part I Overture (Maestoso–Allegro ma non troppo–Andante) 06:46

2 Alexander's Feast - Part I Recitative: 'Twas at the royal feast 01:25

3 Alexander's Feast - Part I Air and Chorus: Happy, happy, happy 05:05

4 Alexander's Feast - Part I Recitative: Timotheus, plac'd on high 00:35

5 Alexander's Feast - Part I Accompanied recitative: The song began 01:04

6 Alexander's Feast - Part I Chorus: The list'ning crowd 02:43

7 Alexander's Feast - Part I Air: With ravish'd ears 04:05

8 Alexander's Feast - Part I Recitative: The praise of Bacchus 00:38

9 Alexander's Feast - Part I Air and Chorus: Bacchus, ever fair 04:12

10 Alexander's Feast - Part I Recitative: Sooth'd with the sound 00:57

11 Alexander's Feast - Part I Accompanied recitative: He chose a mournful Muse 01:29

12 Alexander's Feast - Part I Air: He sung Darius 03:43

13 Alexander's Feast - Part I Accompanied recitative: With downcast looks 01:11

14 Alexander's Feast - Part I Chorus: Behold Darius 03:34

15 Alexander's Feast - Part I Recitative: The mighty master smil'd 00:40

16 Alexander's Feast - Part I Air: Softly sweet in Lydian measures 03:27

17 Alexander's Feast - Part I Air: War, he sung, is toil and trouble 05:40

18 Alexander's Feast - Part I Chorus: The many rend the skies 04:02

19 Alexander's Feast - Part I Air: The Prince, unable to conceal 07:46

20 Alexander's Feast - Part I Chorus da capo: The many rend the skies 04:10

21 Alexander's Feast – Part II Accompanied recitative: Now strike the golden Lyre again 01:54

22 Alexander's Feast – Part II Chorus: Break his bands of sleep asunder 01:34

23 Alexander's Feast – Part II Air: Revenge, revenge 02:03

24 Alexander's Feast – Part II Largo: Behold the ghastly band 04:47

CD 4

1 Alexander's Feast – Part II Air da capo: Revenge, revenge 02:09

2 Alexander's Feast – Part II Accompanied recitative: Give the vengeance due 02:10

3 Alexander's Feast – Part II Air: The princes applaud 02:30

4 Alexander's Feast – Part II Air and chorus: Thais led the way 05:04

5 Alexander's Feast – Part II Accompanied recitative: Thus, long ago 02:55

6 Alexander's Feast – Part II Chorus: At last divine Cecilia came 04:35

7 Alexander's Feast – Part II Recitative: Let old Timotheus yield the prize 00:35

8 Alexander's Feast – Part II Chorus and soloists: Let old Timotheus yield the prize 03:53

9 Book of Airs, 1597 -- Air: Can she excuse my wrongs ? 04:12

10 A Plaine and Easie Introduction to Practicall Musicke -- Air for three viols (instr.) 01:31

11 A Book of Ayres ... 1606 -- Air: Of all the birds that I do know 02:01

12 Fitzwilliam Virginal Book -- Alman for harpsichord (set by Gilles Farnaby) (instr.) 01:16

13 Book of Airs, 1597 -- Air: If my complaints could passions move 04:27

14 Pavan for four viols (instr.) 05:58

15 Rosseter's Book of Ayres, 1601 -- Air: I care not for these ladies 01:45

16 Air for lute solo: My Lady Hunsdon's Puffe (instr.) 01:03

17 Air: Pandolpho (orn. for lute) 07:23

18 Fantasia in C for four viols (instr.) 04:59

19 A Pilgrim's Solace -- Air: From silent night 05:18

20 Fitzwilliam Virginal Book -- Variations for harpsichord on “Up Tails All“ (instr.) 05:57

CD 5

1 The Lamentations of Jeremiah the Prophet, Part I Incipit Lamentatio Jeremiae Prophetae 01:13

2 The Lamentations of Jeremiah the Prophet, Part I Aleph; Quomodo sedet 02:36

3 The Lamentations of Jeremiah the Prophet, Part I Beth 00:29

4 The Lamentations of Jeremiah the Prophet, Part I Plorans ploravit 04:11

5 The Lamentations of Jeremiah the Prophet, Part II De Lamentatione Jeremiae Prophetae 01:36

6 The Lamentations of Jeremiah the Prophet, Part II Ghimel 00:59

7 The Lamentations of Jeremiah the Prophet, Part II Migravit Judas 01:59

8 The Lamentations of Jeremiah the Prophet, Part II Daleth 00:32

9 The Lamentations of Jeremiah the Prophet, Part II Omnes persecutores 03:27

10 The Lamentations of Jeremiah the Prophet, Part II Heth 00:34

11 The Lamentations of Jeremiah the Prophet, Part II Facti sunt 04:47

12 Jesu salvator saeculi 05:19

13 Deus tuorum militum 04:14

14 O nata lux de lumine 02:12

15 Jam Christus astra ascenderat 05:42

16 Salvator mundi Domine 05:21

17 My Sweet Little Darling 03:04

18 Guichardo 04:40

19 What Bootheth Love ? 03:17

20 Ah, Silly Poor Joas 01:48

21 Buy New Broom 01:24

22 Elegy on the death of Thomas Tallis, 1585 -- Ye Sacred Muses 03:51

23 Psalms, Sonnets, and Songs of Sadness and Piety, made into Music of Five Parts, 1588 -- Lullaby, My Sweet Little Baby 07:01

24 In a Merry May Morn 01:26

25 Pandolpho 04:06

26 Come, pretty Babe 01:33

27 O Death, Rock Me Asleep 03:07

CD 6

1 The Self-Banished 03:33

2 The Nightingale 01:36

3 Dove sei 04:14

4 Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach, 1725 -- Bist du bei mir 02:59

5 Melothsia, 1673 -- Voluntary in G for organ 01:09

6 Elegy on the death of Queen Mary, 1695 -- The Queen's Epicedium 07:10

7 Melothsia, 1673 -- Voluntary in F for organ 01:32

8 Harmonia Sacra, Book I, 1688 -- A Hymn to God the Father 03:31

9 The First Book of Canzonets to Two Voices, 1595 -- Sweet Nymph, Come to Thy Lover 01:42

10 Love's Goddess Birthday Song for Queen Mary, 1692 -- Sweetness of Nature 03:40

11 A Musicall Dreame or 4th Book of Airs -- Sweet Kate 01:45

12 Canzonets for Two Voices -- Miraculous love's wounding 02:58

13 Canzonets for Two Voices -- I go before, my darling 01:27

14 Amphion Anglicus (London, 1600) -- If my Celia could persuade 03:01

15 Amphion Anglicus (London, 1600) -- Ah Heav'n! What is it I hear? 03:18

16 Cantica Sacra (London, 1662) -- O bone Jesu 03:10

17 Cantica Sacra (London, 1662) -- Gaudent in coelis 01:36

18 Ah, My Dear Son 06:09

Alfred Deller / Deller Consort / Gustav Leonhardt / Nikolaus Harnoncourt / Oriana Concert Choir / Wiener Staatsoperorchester

Produced by Seymour Solomon

Published in Alfred Deller: The Complete Vanguard Recordings

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CD 1
1	Jephta-Oratorio (1752), HWV 70	Tis Heaven's all-ruling pow'r	03:04
2	Jephta-Oratorio (1752), HWV 70	O spare your daughter	02:37
3	Jephta-Oratorio (1752), HWV 70	Laud her all ye virgin train	03:09
4	Serse-Opera (1738-London)	Ombra mai fu	04:19
5	Orlando-Opera (1733-London)	Ah! Stigie larve	08:05
6	L'Allegro, il Pensoroso ed il Moderato-Oratorio (1740), HWV 55	Let me wander	02:01
7	Orlando-Opera (1733-London)	Cielo se tu il consenti	05:22
8	Rinaldo-Opera (1711-London)	Lascia ch'io pianga	04:41
9	Theodora-Oratorio (1750), HWV 68	Kind Heav'n, if Virtue be thy care	02:36
10	Theodora-Oratorio (1750), HWV 68	Wide spread his name	02:33
11	Theodora-Oratorio (1750), HWV 68	Sweet Rose, and Lilly, flow'ry Form	03:13
12	Theodora-Oratorio (1750), HWV 68	To thee thou glorious son of worth	05:16
13	Coronation Anthems -- Zadok the priest		05:29
14	Coronation Anthems -- The King shall rejoice		11:48
15	Coronation Anthems -- Let thy hand be strenghtened		08:45
CD 2
1	Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne	Largo: Eternal source of light divine	06:56
2	Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne	Andante: Let all the winged …	02:59
3	Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne	Andante: Let flocks …	02:26
4	Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne	Let rolling streams …	02:47
5	Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne	Kind health descends	06:04
6	Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne	Let envy then conceal her head	02:26
7	Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne	United nations shall combine	03:19
8	Cantata 170 "Vergnügte Ruh' beliebte Seelenlust"	Aria: Vergnügte Ruh'	06:53
9	Cantata 170 "Vergnügte Ruh' beliebte Seelenlust"	Recitative: Die Welt, das Sündenhaus	01:12
10	Cantata 170 "Vergnügte Ruh' beliebte Seelenlust"	Aria: Wie jammern	08:17
11	Cantata 170 "Vergnügte Ruh' beliebte Seelenlust"	Recitative: Wer solte sich	01:00
12	Cantata 170 "Vergnügte Ruh' beliebte Seelenlust"	Aria: Wie leid ist mir das Leben	06:00
13	Cantata 54 "Widerstehe doch der Sünde"	Aria: Widerstehe	09:01
14	Cantata 54 "Widerstehe doch der Sünde"	Recitative: Die Art	01:08
15	Cantata 54 "Widerstehe doch der Sünde"	Aria: Wer Sunde tut	03:25
16	Mass in b minor, BWV233	Agnus Dei	05:35
CD 3
1	Alexander's Feast - Part I	Overture (Maestoso–Allegro ma non troppo–Andante)	06:46
2	Alexander's Feast - Part I	Recitative: 'Twas at the royal feast	01:25
3	Alexander's Feast - Part I	Air and Chorus: Happy, happy, happy	05:05
4	Alexander's Feast - Part I	Recitative: Timotheus, plac'd on high	00:35
5	Alexander's Feast - Part I	Accompanied recitative: The song began	01:04
6	Alexander's Feast - Part I	Chorus: The list'ning crowd	02:43
7	Alexander's Feast - Part I	Air: With ravish'd ears	04:05
8	Alexander's Feast - Part I	Recitative: The praise of Bacchus	00:38
9	Alexander's Feast - Part I	Air and Chorus: Bacchus, ever fair	04:12
10	Alexander's Feast - Part I	Recitative: Sooth'd with the sound	00:57
11	Alexander's Feast - Part I	Accompanied recitative: He chose a mournful Muse	01:29
12	Alexander's Feast - Part I	Air: He sung Darius	03:43
13	Alexander's Feast - Part I	Accompanied recitative: With downcast looks	01:11
14	Alexander's Feast - Part I	Chorus: Behold Darius	03:34
15	Alexander's Feast - Part I	Recitative: The mighty master smil'd	00:40
16	Alexander's Feast - Part I	Air: Softly sweet in Lydian measures	03:27
17	Alexander's Feast - Part I	Air: War, he sung, is toil and trouble	05:40
18	Alexander's Feast - Part I	Chorus: The many rend the skies	04:02
19	Alexander's Feast - Part I	Air: The Prince, unable to conceal	07:46
20	Alexander's Feast - Part I	Chorus da capo: The many rend the skies	04:10
21	Alexander's Feast – Part II	Accompanied recitative: Now strike the golden Lyre again	01:54
22	Alexander's Feast – Part II	Chorus: Break his bands of sleep asunder	01:34
23	Alexander's Feast – Part II	Air: Revenge, revenge	02:03
24	Alexander's Feast – Part II	Largo: Behold the ghastly band	04:47
CD 4
1	Alexander's Feast – Part II	Air da capo: Revenge, revenge	02:09
2	Alexander's Feast – Part II	Accompanied recitative: Give the vengeance due	02:10
3	Alexander's Feast – Part II	Air: The princes applaud	02:30
4	Alexander's Feast – Part II	Air and chorus: Thais led the way	05:04
5	Alexander's Feast – Part II	Accompanied recitative: Thus, long ago	02:55
6	Alexander's Feast – Part II	Chorus: At last divine Cecilia came	04:35
7	Alexander's Feast – Part II	Recitative: Let old Timotheus yield the prize	00:35
8	Alexander's Feast – Part II	Chorus and soloists: Let old Timotheus yield the prize	03:53
9	Book of Airs, 1597 -- Air: Can she excuse my wrongs ?		04:12
10	A Plaine and Easie Introduction to Practicall Musicke -- Air for three viols (instr.)		01:31
11	A Book of Ayres ... 1606 -- Air: Of all the birds that I do know		02:01
12	Fitzwilliam Virginal Book -- Alman for harpsichord (set by Gilles Farnaby) (instr.)		01:16
13	Book of Airs, 1597 -- Air: If my complaints could passions move		04:27
14	Pavan for four viols (instr.)		05:58
15	Rosseter's Book of Ayres, 1601 -- Air: I care not for these ladies		01:45
16	Air for lute solo: My Lady Hunsdon's Puffe (instr.)		01:03
17	Air: Pandolpho (orn. for lute)		07:23
18	Fantasia in C for four viols (instr.)		04:59
19	A Pilgrim's Solace -- Air: From silent night		05:18
20	Fitzwilliam Virginal Book -- Variations for harpsichord on “Up Tails All“ (instr.)		05:57
CD 5
1	The Lamentations of Jeremiah the Prophet, Part I	Incipit Lamentatio Jeremiae Prophetae	01:13
2	The Lamentations of Jeremiah the Prophet, Part I	Aleph; Quomodo sedet	02:36
3	The Lamentations of Jeremiah the Prophet, Part I	Beth	00:29
4	The Lamentations of Jeremiah the Prophet, Part I	Plorans ploravit	04:11
5	The Lamentations of Jeremiah the Prophet, Part II	De Lamentatione Jeremiae Prophetae	01:36
6	The Lamentations of Jeremiah the Prophet, Part II	Ghimel	00:59
7	The Lamentations of Jeremiah the Prophet, Part II	Migravit Judas	01:59
8	The Lamentations of Jeremiah the Prophet, Part II	Daleth	00:32
9	The Lamentations of Jeremiah the Prophet, Part II	Omnes persecutores	03:27
10	The Lamentations of Jeremiah the Prophet, Part II	Heth	00:34
11	The Lamentations of Jeremiah the Prophet, Part II	Facti sunt	04:47
12	Jesu salvator saeculi		05:19
13	Deus tuorum militum		04:14
14	O nata lux de lumine		02:12
15	Jam Christus astra ascenderat		05:42
16	Salvator mundi Domine		05:21
17	My Sweet Little Darling		03:04
18	Guichardo		04:40
19	What Bootheth Love ?		03:17
20	Ah, Silly Poor Joas		01:48
21	Buy New Broom		01:24
22	Elegy on the death of Thomas Tallis, 1585 -- Ye Sacred Muses		03:51
23	Psalms, Sonnets, and Songs of Sadness and Piety, made into Music of Five Parts, 1588 -- Lullaby, My Sweet Little Baby		07:01
24	In a Merry May Morn		01:26
25	Pandolpho		04:06
26	Come, pretty Babe		01:33
27	O Death, Rock Me Asleep		03:07
CD 6
1	The Self-Banished		03:33
2	The Nightingale		01:36
3	Dove sei		04:14
4	Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach, 1725 -- Bist du bei mir		02:59
5	Melothsia, 1673 -- Voluntary in G for organ		01:09
6	Elegy on the death of Queen Mary, 1695 -- The Queen's Epicedium		07:10
7	Melothsia, 1673 -- Voluntary in F for organ		01:32
8	Harmonia Sacra, Book I, 1688 -- A Hymn to God the Father		03:31
9	The First Book of Canzonets to Two Voices, 1595 -- Sweet Nymph, Come to Thy Lover		01:42
10	Love's Goddess Birthday Song for Queen Mary, 1692 -- Sweetness of Nature		03:40
11	A Musicall Dreame or 4th Book of Airs -- Sweet Kate		01:45
12	Canzonets for Two Voices -- Miraculous love's wounding		02:58
13	Canzonets for Two Voices -- I go before, my darling		01:27
14	Amphion Anglicus (London, 1600) -- If my Celia could persuade		03:01
15	Amphion Anglicus (London, 1600) -- Ah Heav'n! What is it I hear?		03:18
16	Cantica Sacra (London, 1662) -- O bone Jesu		03:10
17	Cantica Sacra (London, 1662) -- Gaudent in coelis		01:36
18	Ah, My Dear Son		06:09