Le Deller Consort

Le Deller Consort
aka: L'Âge d'or du madrigal / Consortiana / Das Deller Consort singt / English, french and italian madrigals and songs
The Deller Consort, Quatuor bulgare, Raphaël Perulli, René Saorgin - Alfred Deller, dir.
Harmonia mundi HM 30.702 [LP, Germany]
Harmonia mundi « Deller Recordings » DR 204 [LP, France]
Harmonia mundi HMD 204 [LP]
Harmonia mundi « Musique d'Abord » HM 204 [LP]
Harmonia mundi « Musique d'Abord » HM 40 204 [Cass.]
RCA « Victrola » VIC 1428 [LP, mono]
RCA « Victrola » VICS 1428 [LP, stereo]
RCA « Camden Classics » VCCS 1428 [LP, stereo]

Contents:

    Robert Johnson
  1. Care charming sleep

    2. William Cornyshe
  2. Ah, Robin, Gentle Robin
  3. Hoyda. jolly Rutterkin

    4. Thomas Weelkes
  4. Cease sorrows now

    5. John Wilbye
  5. Lady, when I behold the roses sprouting

    6. Thomas Vautour
  6. Mother, I will have a husband

    7. ----
    Gentian
  7. Je suis Robert

    8. Claudin de Sermisy
  8. Tant que vivrai en âge florissant

    9. Claudio Monteverdi / Guarini (t)
    Published in Madrigali, libro primo, Venice, 1587
  9. Baci soavi e cari (sv27)

    10. Claudio Monteverdi / O. Rinuccini (t)
    Published in Ottavo libro de' madrigali (Madrigali guerrieri, et amorosi ...), Venice, 1638
    Lamento della Ninfa (sv163)
  10. Part I: Non avea Febo ancora
    Part II: 'Amor', dicea, e'l piè
    Part III: Aria: Sí tra sdegnosi pianti

    11. Orlando Gibbons
  11. The Cries of London

Performers:
The Deller Consort
Mary Thomas (soprano), Sally Le Sage (soprano), Alfred Deller (counter-tenor), Philip Todd (tenor), Max Worthley (tenor), Maurice Vean (baritone)
The Bulgarian String quartet
Dimo Dimov (violin), Alexandre Thomov (violin), Dimitre Tchilikov (viola), Dimitre Kosev (cello)
with René Saorgin (harpsichord, positive organ), Raphaël Perulli (viola da gamba)
more precisely
[1] Alfred Deller (counter-tenor), René Saorgin (harpsichord)
[2] Alfred Deller (counter-tenor), Philip Todd (tenor), Maurice Bevan (tenor)
[3] Philip Todd (tenor), Max Worthley (tenor), Maurice Bevan (baritone)
[4] Mary Thomas (soprano), Alfred Deller (counter-tenor), Maurice Bevan (baritone)
[5] Mary Thomas (soprano), Alfred Deller (counter-tenor), Philip Todd (tenor), Max Worthley (tenor), Maurice Bevan (baritone)
[6] Mary Thomas (soprano), Sally le Sage (soprano), Alfred Deller (counter-tenor), Philip Todd (tenor), Maurice Bevan (baritone)
[7]-[8] Mary Thomas (soprano), Alfred Deller (counter-tenor), Philip Todd (tenor), Maurice Bevan (baritone)
[9] Mary Thomas (soprano), Alfred Deller (counter-tenor), Philip Todd (tenor), Max Worthley (tenor), Maurice Bevan (baritone)
[10] Sally Le Sage (soprano), Philip Todd (tenor), Max Worthley (tenor), Maurice Bevan (baritone), René Saorgin (harpsichord), Raphaël Perulli (viola da gamba)
[11] Mary Thomas (soprano), Alfred Deller (counter-tenor), Philip Todd (tenor), Max Worthley (tenor), Maurice Bevan (baritone), The Bulgarian String quartet, René Saorgin (positive organ), Raphaël Perulli (viola da gamba)

Playing time: 18' 53" + 20' 30" = 39' 23"

Recording site and date:
Unknown [1966];
Rel. ca 1967 (DR), 1969 (RCA), 1980 (HM 204), 1981 (HM 40 204)

Reviewed in:
Diapason (#-p.): 121-33 (may 1968)
Gramophone (Vol./#-p.): 53/630-88 (nov. 1975 (as HMD 204))

Comments:
Information from LP (RCA Victrola).
Date of recording is as stated in Jean-Luc Tingaud « Alfred Deller, le contre-ténor », édition Josette Lyon, p. 142.

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Pierre-F. Roberge