Volume 4: Music of Handel, Bach and the English Renaissance
CD 1: The Connoisseur's Handel / Handel: 3 Coronation Anthems
 George Frideric Handel: 
 1 Jephta (1752), HWV 70 – 'Tis Heaven's all-ruling pow'r3:03
 2      O spare your daughter2:37
 3      Laud her all ye virgin train3:09
 4 Serse (1738, London) – Ombra mai fù4:19
 5 Orlando (1733, London) – Ah! Stigie larve8:05
 6 L'Allegro, il Pensoroso ed il Moderato (1740), HWV 55 – Let me wander2:01
 7 Orlando (1733, London) – Cielo se tu il consenti5:21
 8 Rinaldo (1711, London) – Lascia ch'io pianga4:40
 9 Theodora (1750), HWV 68 – Kind Heav'n, if Virtue be thy care2:35
10     Wide spread his name2:33
11     Sweet Rose, and Lilly, flow'ry Form3:12
12     To thee thou glorious son of worth5:16
 Alfred Deller, counter-tenor
Eileen Poulter, soprano / Wilfred Brown, tenor / Maurice Bevan, baritone / Herbert Tachezi, harpsichord
The Handel Festival Orchestra / Sir Anthony Lewis, conductor
 
13Coronation Anthems – Zadok the priest5:28
14Coronation Anthems – The King shall rejoice1:47
15Coronation Anthems – Let thy hand be strenghtened8:45
 Alfred Deller, counter-tenor / Richard Rudolf, trumpet / Harold Lester, harpsichord
Oriana Concert Choir* and Orchestra / Alfred Deller, conductor
* Wiener Kammerchor
 
CD 2: Handel: Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne / Bach: Cantatas 54 & 170
 George Frideric Handel: Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne 
 1      Largo: Eternal source of light divine6:56
 2      Andante: Let all the winged ...2:59
 3      Andante: Let flocks ...2:25
 4      Let rolling streams ...2:47
 5      Kind health descends6:04
 6      Let envy then conceal her head2:26
 7      United nations shall combine3:18
 Honor Sheppard, soprano / Alfred Deller, counter-tenor / Mark Deller, counter-tenor / Richard Rudolf, trumpet / Harold Lester, harpsichord
Oriana Concert Orchestra / Alfred Deller, conductor
 
 Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata 170 "Vergnügte Ruh' beliebte Seelenlust" 
 8      Aria: Vergnügte Ruh'6:53
 9      Recitative: Die Welt, das Sündenhaus1:11
10     Aria: Wie jammern8:17
11     Recitative: Wer solte sich1:00
12     Aria: Wie leid ist mir das Leben6:00
13Johann Sebastian Bach: Mass in b minor, BWV233 – Agnus Dei9:01
 Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata 54 "Widerstehe doch der Sünde" – Aria: Widerstehe 
14     Aria: Widerstehe1:07
15     Recitative: Die Art3:25
16     Aria: Wer Sunde tut5:34
 Alfred Deller, counter-tenor
Leonhardt Baroque Ensemble
Michel Piguet, oboe / Eduard Melkus, baroque violin / Marie Leonhardt , baroque violin / Kurt Theiner, baroque viola / Alice Hoffelner , baroque viola / Nicolaus Harnoncourt, baroque 'cello / Alfred Planiawsky, baroque double-bass / Gustav Leonhardt, organ
Gustav Leonhardt, conductor
 
CD 3: Handel: Alexander's Feast (beginning)
 Part I 
 1       Overture (Maestoso – Allegro ma non troppo – Andante)6:46
 2       Recitative: 'Twas at the royal feast1:25
 3       Air and Chorus: Happy, happy, happy5:04
 4       Recitative: Timotheus, plac'd on high0:35
 5       Accompanied recitative: The song began1:03
 6       Chorus: The list'ning crowd2:43
 7       Air: With ravish'd ears4:05
 8       Recitative: The praise of Bacchus0:38
 9       Air and Chorus: Bacchus, ever fair4:11
10      Recitative: Sooth'd with the sound0:57
11      Accompanied recitative: He chose a mournful Muse1:28
12      Air: He sung Darius3:43
13      Accompanied recitative: With downcast looks1:11
14      Chorus: Behold Darius3:34
15      Recitative: The mighty master smil'd0:40
16      Air: Softly sweet in Lydian measures3:26
17      Air: War, he sung, is toil and trouble5:40
18      Chorus: The many rend the skies4:02
19      Air: The Prince, unable to conceal7:46
20      Chorus da capo: The many rend the skies4:09
 Part II 
21      Accompanied recitative: Now strike the golden Lyre again1:54
22      Chorus: Break his bands of sleep asunder1::3
23      Air: Revenge, revenge2:02
24      Largo: Behold the ghastly band4:46
CD 4: Handel: Alexander's Feast (conclusion) / Elizabethan and Jacobean Music
 George Frideric Handel: Alexander's Feast 
 1      Air da capo: Revenge, revenge2:08
 2      Accompanied recitative: Give the vengeance due2:09
 3      Air: The princes applaud2:29
 4      Air and chorus: Thais led the way5:03
 5      Accompanied recitative: Thus, long ago2:54
 6      Chorus: At last divine Cecilia came4:35
 7      Recitative: Let old Timotheus yield the prize0:34
 8      Chorus and soloists: Let old Timotheus yield the prize3:53
 Honor Sheppard, soprano / Alfred Deller, counter-tenor / Max Worthley , tenor / Maurice Bevan, bass
Oriana Concert Choir and Orchestra / Alfred Deller, conductor
 
 9 John Dowland: Book of Airs, 1597 – Air: Can she excuse my wrongs?4:12
10Thomas Morley: A Plaine and Easie Introduction to Practicall Musicke – Air for three viols (instr.)1:30
11John Bartlett: A Book of Ayres..., 1606 – Air: Of all the birds that I do know (text: George Gascoigne)2:01
12Robert Johnson: Fitwilliam Virginal Book – Alman for harpsichord (set by Giles Farnaby) (instr.)1:16
13John Dowland: Book of Airs, 1597 – Air: If my complaints could passions move4:26
14John Jenkins: Pavan for four viols (instr.)5:57
15Thomas Campian: Rosseter's Book of Ayres, 1601 – Air: I care not for these ladies1:44
16John Dowland: Air for lute solo: My Lady Hunsdon's Puffe (instr.)1:03
17Robert Parsons: Air: Pandolpho (orn. for lute)7:23
18John Jenkins: Fantasia in C for four viols (instr.)4:59
19John Dowland: A Pilgrim's Solace – Air: From silent night5:19
20Giles Farnaby: Fitzwilliam Virginal Book – Variations for harpsichord on "Up Tails All" (instr.)5:57
 Alfred Deller, counter-tenor / Desmond Dupré, lute / Gustav Leonhardt, harpsichord
Consort of Viols of the Leonhardt Baroque Ensemble
Eduard Melkus, treble viol / Nikolaus Harnoncourt, bass viols / Alice Hoffelner, treble viol / Gustav Leonhardt, bass viol
 
CD 5: Thomas Tallis: The Lamentations of Jeremiah the Prophet, Part I / William Byrd and His Age
 Thomas Tallis: The Lamentations of Jeremiah the Prophet1:13
 1      Part I – Incipit Lamentatio Jeremiae Prophetae1:13
 2        Aleph; Quomodo sedet2:36
 3        Beth0:29
 4        Plorans ploravit4:11
 5 Part II – De Lamentatione Jeremiae Prophetae1:36
 6        Ghimel0:59
 7        Migravit Judas1:58
 8        Daleth0:32
 9        Omnes persecutores3:27
10       Heth0:33
11       Facti sunt4:47
12Thomas Tallis: Jesu salvator saeculi5:18
13John Sheppard (attrib., originally attrib. Tallis): Deus tuorum militum II4:13
14Thomas Tallis: O nata lux de lumine2:12
15Thomas Tallis: Jam Christus astra ascenderat5:42
16Thomas Tallis: Salvator mundi Domine5:20
 The Deller Consort / Alfred Deller, director
Eileen McLoughlin, soprano (12-16) / Alfred Deller, counter-tenor / Gerald English, tenor / Wilfred Brown, tenor / Maurice Bevan, baritone / John Frost, bass
 
17Anon., arr. Edmund Fellowes, British Museum, Add. Mss. 17, 786-91: My Sweet Little Darling3:04
18Anon., arr. Peter Warlock, Christ Church, Oxford, Mss. 984-8: Guichardo4:39
19William Corkine, arr. Thurston Dart: What Bootheth Love ?3:17
20Anon., arr. Peter Warlock: Ah, Silly Poor Joas1:48
21Thomas Whythorne, arr. Peter Warlock: Buy New Broom1:24
22William Byrd, arr. Edmund Fellowes: Elegy on the death of Thomas Tallis, 1585 – Ye Sacred Muses3:51
23William Byrd, arr. Edmund Fellowes, : Psalms, Sonnets, and Songs of Sadness and Piety, made into Music of Five Parts, 1588 – Lullaby, My Sweet Little Baby7:01
24Richard Nicholson, arr. Peter Warlock: In a Merry May Morn1:26
25Robert Parsons, arr. Peter Warlock: Pandolpho4:06
26William Byrd, arr. Peter le Huray & Thurston Dart: Come, Pretty Babe1:33
27Anon., arr. Peter Warlock: O Death, Rock Me Asleep3:07
 Alfred Deller, counter-tenor / Wenzinger Consort of Viols of the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis / August Wenzinger, director 
CD 6: Deller's Choice (selections) / Duets for Countertenors (selections)
 1 John Blow: The Self-Banished3:32
 2 John Weldon: The Nightingale1:36
 3 Georg Frideric Handel: from Rodelinda, HWV19 – Dove sei4:14
 4 Johann Sebastian Bach (spurious, attributed to possibly Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel): Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach –Bist du bei mir, BWV5082:58
5Matthew Locke: Melothsia, 1673 – Voluntary in G for organ1:09
 6 Henry Purcell: Elegy on the death of Queen Mary, 1695 – The Queen's Epicedium7:09
7Matthew Locke: Melothsia, 1673 – Voluntary in F for organ1:32
 8 Pelham Humfrey (or Hemphryes): Harmonia Sacra, Book I, 1688 – A Hymn to God the Father3:31
 Alfred Deller, countertenor (1-4, 6, 8) /Gustav Leonhardt, harpsichord and organ, 5, 7, 8) 
 9 Thomas Morley: The First Book of Canzonets to Two Voices, 1595 – Sweet Nymph, Come to Thy Lover1:41
10Henry Purcell: Love's Goddess Birthday Song for Queen Mary, 1692 – Sweetness of Nature3:40
11Robert Jones: A Musicall Dreame or 4th Book of Airs – Sweet Kate1:45
12Thomas Morley: Canzonets for Two Voices – Miraculous love's wounding2:58
13     I go before, my darling1:27
14John Blow: Amphion Anglicus (London, 1600) – If my Celia could persuade3:00
15     Ah Heav'n! What is it I hear?3:17
16Richard Deering: Cantica Sacra (London, 1662) – O bone Jesu3:10
17     Gaudent in coelis1:36
18Anon., Fayrfax Ms (er. John Stevens): Ah, My Dear Son6:09
 Alfred Deller, countertenor /Mark Deller, counter-tenor / Ensemble of Baroque Instruments