Harmonia Mundi France: HMX 290261.64 (HMX 290261--HMX 290264). Alfred Deller, countertenor and conductor ; with various performers. Recorded 1967-1979. Chiefly previously released material. Compact discs. Program notes, biography, and texts in French translation and in English (either English texts or English translations of Latin or Italian texts) (75 pages : illustrations) included.
Contents:
CD 1. Opera & stage music of Henry Purcell [excerpts from The fairy queen ; King Arthur ; The Indian queen ; Theatre music]. CD 2. Sacred song. Incipit lamentatio Jeremiae prophetae (Gregorian chant) ; Dernière leçon du Samedi Saint (Ténèbres) -- Te lucis ante terminum (Cantiones sacrae) / Thomas Tallis -- Deuxième leçon de ténèbres pour le Mercredy / François Couperin -- Cantata Jubilate Domino / Dietrich Buxtehude -- In guilty night (Saul and the Witch of Endor) / Henry Purcell -- Great king of gods / Orlando Gibbons -- Ave verum / G. Pierluigi da Palestrina -- Cantabo Domine / Alessandro Grandi. CD 3. Solo song. Shakespeard songs. The wind and the rain / Anonymous ; It was a lover and his lass [and] O mistress mine / Thomas Morley -- Willow song ; Calleno custure me / Anonymous -- Miserere my maker / Anonymous -- I care not for these ladies / Thomas Campion -- Of all the birds / John Bartlet -- What then is love / Philip Rosseter -- The self-banished / John Blow -- The glory of the Arcadian groves / Jeremiah Clarke -- Fine knacks for ladies ; Flow my tears / John Dowland -- If music be the food of love ; From rosy bow'rs ; O solitude / Henry Purcell -- Pien d'amoroso affetto / Giulio Caccini -- Pallidetto qual viola / Claudio Saracini -- Amarilli, mia bella / Giulio Caccini -- Infirmata vulnerata / Allesandro Scarlatti. CD 4. Folksong. The three ravens ; Black is the colour of my true love's hair / Anonymous -- Sweet nymph, come to thy lover ; I go before my darling / Thomas Morley -- The oak and the ash ; Barbara Allen ; Lord Rendall ; The water is wide ; The tailor and the mouse ; Down by the sally gardens ; I will give my love an apple / Anonymous -- Miraculous love's wounding / Thomas Morley -- Sweet Kate / Robert Jones -- Bushes and briars ; The foggy, foggy dew ; She moved through the fair ; Evening prayer / Anonymous..
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.