Thomas Morley

Thomas Morley
Les triomphes d'oriane - Ballets, Madrigaux, Pavanes & Chants Sacrés
Deller Consort - Alfred Deller, dir. & Morley Consort - David Munrow, dir.
Harmonia mundi HMU 241 [LP]
Harmonia mundi "Musique d'Abord" HMA 241 [LP]
Ars Nova VST 6076 [LP]
Musical Heritage Society MHS 4137 [LP]

Contents:

    Thomas Morley, Madrigals for Four Voices, 1594
  1. Ho ! who comes here

    2. Thomas Morley, Consort Lessons, 1599
  2. O mistress mine

    3. Thomas Morley, Balletts to Five Voices, 1595
  3. About the maypole new

    4. Thomas Morley, Lessons for Consort, 1609 (Rosseter)
  4. Now is the month of maying

    5. Thomas Morley, Canzonets for Five and Six Voices, 1597
  5. Love took his bow and arrow

    6. Thomas Morley, Triumphs of Oriana, 1601
  6. Hard by a crystal fountain

    7. Thomas Morley, Variety of Lute Lessons, 1610 (Robert Dowland)
  7. Pavan for Lute

    8. Thomas Morley, Consort Lessons, 1599
  8. Balowe

    9. Thomas Morley, Triumphs of Oriana, 1601
  9. Arise, awake

    10. Thomas Morley, Consort Lessons, 1599
  10. The frog galliard

    11. Thomas Morley, Balletts for five voices, 1595
  11. You that wont to my pipes sound

    12. ----
    Thomas Morley, Plain and Easy Introduction, 1597
  12. O Amica Mea

    13. Thomas Morley, Selected Church Music, 1641, (Barnard)
  13. Out of the deep

    14. Thomas Morley, Lessons for Consort, 1609 (Rosseter)
  14. The Sacred End Pavan

    15. Thomas Morley, Tristitiae Remedium (ms), 1616 (Thomas Myriell)
  15. Nolo mortem peccatoris

    16. Thomas Morley, Lessons for Consort, 1609 (Rosseter)
  16. Galliard to the Sacred End

    17. Thomas Morley, RCM ms. 1045-51
  17. I call with my whole heart

    18. Thomas Morley, RCM ms. 1045-51 & Tenbury 791
  18. Let my complaint come before thee

    19. Thomas Morley, Plain and Easy Introduction, 1597
  19. Agnus Dei

Playing time: 25' 15" + 28' 08" = 53' 23"

Performers:
[1], [3], [5]-[6], [9], [11]-[13], [15], [17]-[19] Deller Consort [Honor Sheppard (soprano), Jean Knibbs (soprano), Alfred Deller (counter-tenor), Mark Deller (counter-tenor), John Buttrey (tenor), Maurice Bevan (baritone), Robert Elliott (organ)] - Alfred Deller, dir.
[1]-[2], [4], [7]-[11], [14], [16] Morley Consort [Simon Standage (violin), David Munrow (recorders and flutes), Oliver Brookes (bass viol), James Tyler (lute and tenor viol), Nigel North (cithare and tenor viol), Robert Spencer (bandora and lute)] - David Munrow, dir.

Recording site and date:
Unknown [1975 or prior]

Reviewed in:
Gramophone (Vol./#-p.): 55/657-1455 (feb. 1978), 62/747- (april 1985 as HMA)
Diapason (#-p.): 200-69 (oct. 1975)
Fanfare ( #-p):

Comments:
Initialy acclaimed as one of the best Morley's anthologies, it is still missing from the Harmonia mundi CD catalogue. Information from owned LP, Matthew B. Tepper and Stephen Gamble. On the LP cover of the first release, Munrow is spelled Munroe (sic).

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Pierre-F. Roberge