Alfred Deller: Music of Handel, Bach and the English Renaissance. Vol.4 (6 CD box set, FLAC)

Alfred Deller: Music of Handel, Bach and the English Renaissance. Vol.4 (6 CD box set, FLAC)

Performer: Maurice Bevan, John Frost / Composer: George Frederick Handel, Johann Sebastian Bach, John Dowland,  John Bartlet / Audio CD (March 10, 2009) /  Number of Discs: 6 CD box set / Format: FLAC, CUE /Label: Musical Concepts  / Size: 1.87 GB / Recovery: +3% / Scan: yes

CDs:

Disc 1:
01. George Frideric Handel: Jephta-Oratorio (1752), HWV 70 — ‘Tis Heaven’s all-ruling pow’r
02. George Frideric Handel: Jephta-Oratorio (1752), HWV 70 — O spare your daughter
03. George Frideric Handel: Jephta-Oratorio (1752), HWV 70 — Laud her all ye virgin train
04. George Frideric Handel: Serse-Opera (1738-London) — Ombra mai fu
05. George Frideric Handel: Orlando-Opera (1733-London) — Ah! Stigie larve
06. George Frideric Handel: L’Allegro, il Pensoroso ed il Moderato-Oratorio (1740), HWV 55 — Let me wander
07. George Frideric Handel: Orlando-Opera (1733-London) — Cielo se tu il consenti
08. George Frideric Handel: Rinaldo-Opera (1711-London) — Lascia ch’io pianga
09. George Frideric Handel: Theodora-Oratorio (1750), HWV 68 — Kind Heav’n, if Virtue be thy care
10. George Frideric Handel: Theodora-Oratorio (1750), HWV 68 — Wide spread his name
11. George Frideric Handel: Theodora-Oratorio (1750), HWV 68 — Sweet Rose, and Lilly, flow’ry Form
12. George Frideric Handel: Theodora-Oratorio (1750), HWV 68 — To thee thou glorious son of worth
13. George Frideric Handel: Coronation Anthems — Zadok the priest
14. George Frideric Handel: Coronation Anthems — The King shall rejoice
15. George Frideric Handel: Coronation Anthems — Let thy hand be strenghtened

Disc 2:
01. George Frideric Handel: Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne — Largo: Eternal source of light divine
02. George Frideric Handel: Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne — Andante: Let all the winged …
03. George Frideric Handel: Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne — Andante: Let flocks …
04. George Frideric Handel: Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne — Let rolling streams …
05. George Frideric Handel: Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne — Kind health descends
06. George Frideric Handel: Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne — Let envy then conceal her head
07. George Frideric Handel: Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne — United nations shall combine
08. Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata 170 “Vergnügte Ruh’ beliebte Seelenlust” — Aria: Vergnügte Ruh’
09. Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata 170 “Vergnügte Ruh’ beliebte Seelenlust” — Recitative: Die Welt, das Sündenhaus
10. Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata 170 “Vergnügte Ruh’ beliebte Seelenlust” — Aria: Wie jammern
11. Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata 170 “Vergnügte Ruh’ beliebte Seelenlust” — Recitative: Wer solte sich
12. Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata 170 “Vergnügte Ruh’ beliebte Seelenlust” — Aria: Wie leid ist mir das Leben
13. Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata 54 “Widerstehe doch der Sünde” — Aria: Widerstehe
14. Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata 54 “Widerstehe doch der Sünde” — Recitative: Die Art
15. Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata 54 “Widerstehe doch der Sünde” — Aria: Wer Sunde tut
16. Johann Sebastian Bach: Mass in b minor, BWV233 — Agnus Dei

Disc 3:
01. George Frideric Handel: Alexander’s Feast – Part I — Overture (Maestoso-Allegro ma non troppo-Andante)
02. George Frideric Handel: Alexander’s Feast – Part I — Recitative: ‘Twas at the royal feast
03. George Frideric Handel: Alexander’s Feast – Part I — Air and Chorus: Happy, happy, happy
04. George Frideric Handel: Alexander’s Feast – Part I — Recitative: Timotheus, plac’d on high
05. George Frideric Handel: Alexander’s Feast – Part I — Accompanied recitative: The song began
06. George Frideric Handel: Alexander’s Feast – Part I — Chorus: The list’ning crowd
07. George Frideric Handel: Alexander’s Feast – Part I — Air: With ravish’d ears
08. George Frideric Handel: Alexander’s Feast – Part I — Recitative: The praise of Bacchus
09. George Frideric Handel: Alexander’s Feast – Part I — Air and Chorus: Bacchus, ever fair
10. George Frideric Handel: Alexander’s Feast – Part I — Recitative: Sooth’d with the sound
11. George Frideric Handel: Alexander’s Feast – Part I — Accompanied recitative: He chose a mournful Muse
12. George Frideric Handel: Alexander’s Feast – Part I — Air: He sung Darius
13. George Frideric Handel: Alexander’s Feast – Part I — Accompanied recitative: With downcast looks
14. George Frideric Handel: Alexander’s Feast – Part I — Chorus: Behold Darius
15. George Frideric Handel: Alexander’s Feast – Part I — Recitative: The mighty master smil’d
16. George Frideric Handel: Alexander’s Feast – Part I — Air: Softly sweet in Lydian measures
17. George Frideric Handel: Alexander’s Feast – Part I — Air: War, he sung, is toil and trouble
18. George Frideric Handel: Alexander’s Feast – Part I — Chorus: The many rend the skies
19. George Frideric Handel: Alexander’s Feast – Part I — Air: The Prince, unable to conceal
20. George Frideric Handel: Alexander’s Feast – Part I — Chorus da capo: The many rend the skies
21. George Frideric Handel: Alexander’s Feast – Part II — Accompanied recitative: Now strike the golden Lyre again
22. George Frideric Handel: Alexander’s Feast – Part II — Chorus: Break his bands of sleep asunder
23. George Frideric Handel: Alexander’s Feast – Part II — Air: Revenge, revenge
24. George Frideric Handel: Alexander’s Feast – Part II — Largo: Behold the ghastly band

Disc 4:
01. George Frideric Handel: Alexander’s Feast – Part II — Air da capo: Revenge, revenge
02. George Frideric Handel: Alexander’s Feast – Part II — Accompanied recitative: Give the vengeance due
03. George Frideric Handel: Alexander’s Feast – Part II — Air: The princes applaud
04. George Frideric Handel: Alexander’s Feast – Part II — Air and chorus: Thais led the way
05. George Frideric Handel: Alexander’s Feast – Part II — Accompanied recitative: Thus, long ago
06. George Frideric Handel: Alexander’s Feast – Part II — Chorus: At last divine Cecilia came
07. George Frideric Handel: Alexander’s Feast – Part II — Recitative: Let old Timotheus yield the prize
08. George Frideric Handel: Alexander’s Feast – Part II — Chorus and soloists: Let old Timotheus yield the prize
09. John Dowland: Book of Airs, 1597 — Air: Can she excuse my wrongs?
10. Thomas Morley: A Plaine and Easie Introduction to Practicall Musicke — Air for three viols (instr.)
11. John Bartlett (m) / George Gascoigne (t): A Book of Ayres … 1606 — Air: Of all the birds that I do know
12. Robert Johnson: Fitwilliam Virginal Book — Alman for harpsichord (set by Gilles Farnaby) (instr.)
13. John Dowland: Book of Airs, 1597 — Air: If my complaints could passions move
14. John Jenkins: Pavan for four viols (instr.)
15. Thomas Campian: Rosseter’s Book of Ayres, 1601 — Air: I care not for these ladies
16. John Dowland: Air for lute solo: My Lady Hunsdon’s Puffe (instr.)
17. Robert Parsons: Air: Pandolpho (orn. for lute)
18. John Jenkins: Fantasia in C for four viols (instr.)
19. John Dowland: A Pilgrim’s Solace — Air: From silent night
20. Giles Farnaby: Fitwilliam Virginal Book — Variations for harpsichord on “Up Tails All” (instr.)

Disc 5:
01. Thomas Tallis: The Lamentations of Jeremiah the Prophet, Part I — Incipit Lamentatio Jeremiae Prophetae
02. Thomas Tallis: The Lamentations of Jeremiah the Prophet, Part I — Aleph; Quomodo sedet
03. Thomas Tallis: The Lamentations of Jeremiah the Prophet, Part I — Beth
04. Thomas Tallis: The Lamentations of Jeremiah the Prophet, Part I — Plorans ploravit
05. Thomas Tallis: The Lamentations of Jeremiah the Prophet, Part II — De Lamentatione Jeremiae Prophetae
06. Thomas Tallis: The Lamentations of Jeremiah the Prophet, Part II — Ghimel
07. Thomas Tallis: The Lamentations of Jeremiah the Prophet, Part II — Migravit Judas
08. Thomas Tallis: The Lamentations of Jeremiah the Prophet, Part II — Daleth
09. Thomas Tallis: The Lamentations of Jeremiah the Prophet, Part II — Omnes persecutores
10. Thomas Tallis: The Lamentations of Jeremiah the Prophet, Part II — Heth
11. Thomas Tallis: The Lamentations of Jeremiah the Prophet, Part II — Facti sunt
12. Thomas Tallis: Jesu salvator saeculi
13. Thomas Tallis: Deus tuorum militum
14. Thomas Tallis: O nata lux de lumine
15. Thomas Tallis: Jam Christus astra ascenderat
16. Thomas Tallis: Salvator mundi Domine
17. Anon., arr. Edmund Fellowes, British Museum, Add. Mss. 17, 786-91: My Sweet Little Darling
18. Anon., arr. Peter Warlock, Christ Church, Oxford, Mss. 984-8: Guichardo
19. William Corkine, arr. Thurston Dart: What Bootheth Love?
20. Anon., arr. Peter Warlock: Ah, Silly Poor Joas
21. Thomas Whythorne, arr. Peter Warlock: Buy New Broom
22. William Byrd, arr. Fellowes: Elegy on the death of Thomas Tallis, 1585 — Ye Sacred Muses
23. William Byrd, arr. Edmund Fellowes, : Psalms, Sonnets, and Songs of Sadness and Piety, made into Music of Five Parts, 1588 — Lullaby, My Sweet Little Baby
24. Richard Nicholson, arr. Peter Warlock: In a Merry May Morn
25. Robert Parsons, arr. Peter Warlock: Pandolpho
26. William Byrd, arr. Peter le Huray & Thurston Dart: Come, pretty Babe
27. Anon., arr. Peter Warlock: O Death, Rock Me Asleep

Disc 6:
01. John Blow: The Self-Banished
02. John Weldon: The Nightingale
03. Georg Friedrich Händel: from Rodelinda, 1725 — Dove sei
04. Johann Sebastian Bach: from the Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach, 1725 — Bist du bei mir
05. Matthew Locke: Melothsia, 1673 — Voluntary in G for organ
06. Henry Purcell: Elegy on the death of Queen Mary, 1695 — The Queen’s Epicedium
07. Matthew Locke: Melothsia, 1673 — Voluntary in F for organ
08. Pelham Humfrey (or Hemphryes): Harmonia Sacra, Book I, 1688 — A Hymn to God the Father
09. Thomas Morley: The First Book of Canzonets to Two Voices, 1595 — Sweet Nymph, Come to Thy Lover
10. Henry Purcell: Love’s Goddess Birthday Song for Queen Mary, 1692 — Sweetness of Nature
11. Robert Jones: A Musicall Dreame or 4th Book of Airs — Sweet Kate
12. Thomas Morley: Canzonets for Two Voices — Miraculous love’s wounding
13. Thomas Morley: Canzonets for Two Voices — I go before, my darling
14. John Blow: Amphion Anglicus (London, 1600) — If my Celia could persuade
15. John Blow: Amphion Anglicus (London, 1600) — Ah Heav’n! What is it I hear?
16. Richard Deering: Cantica Sacra (London, 1662) — O bone Jesu
17. Richard Deering: Cantica Sacra (London, 1662) — Gaudent in coelis
18. Anon., Fayrfax Ms (er. John Stevens): Ah, My Dear Son

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Thomas Morley  

(?, c. 1557-?, c. 1603) Compositor inglés. Se formó con W. Byrd y fue organista de la catedral de San Pablo de Londres y caballero de la capilla Real. Fue también un notable teórico (Sencilla y fácil introducción a la música práctica, 1597) y un influyente editor. Es autor de canciones, de madrigales y de aires para laúd.

Thomas Tallis

(Leicestershire?, actual Reino Unido, h. 1505-Greenwich, id., 1585) Compositor y organista inglés. Poco es lo que se conoce de su vida: la primera referencia que se conserva de él lo sitúa en 1532 como organista de la abadía benedictina de Dover. Desde 1543 fue organista de la capilla real, cargo que conservó bajo los reinados Enrique VIII, Eduardo VI, María Tudor e Isabel I. Asociado al también compositor William Byrd, en 1575 logró un privilegio de la Corona según el cual se le concedió el monopolio de la impresión musical en Inglaterra. Su producción incluye sobre todo música vocal destinada a los oficios divinos, tanto protestantes como católicos. En inglés y latín, respectivamente, veinte anthems y nueve salmos conforman el núcleo del primero, mientras que el segundo, caracterizado por el uso de un elaborado y complejo contrapunto, halla en sus tres misas y cincuenta y dos motetes –uno de ellos, Spem in alium non habui (No he tenido esperanza en lo ajeno), a cuarenta voces– su más lograda expresión. Tallis compuso también cierto número de obras para teclado.

Muchas gracias a todos.

KARL.