Alfred Deller « The Complete Vanguard Recordings », Volume ONE

Alfred Deller « The Complete Vanguard Recordings », Volume ONE
Folk Songs and Ballads
Alfred Deller - The Deller Consort
Musical Concepts MC 193 [CDx7 + CD-ROM]

Contents:

    CD-1
    Tavern Songs – Catches and glees and other diverse entertainment of Merrie England

    "A choice collection of the most diverting CATCHES, composed by Mr. Henry Purcell"

    Henry Purcell (c.1659-1695)
  1. Man Is for the Woman Made
  2. Sir Walter
  3. To Thee and to the Maid
  4. Chiding Catch ("Fie, Nay""; attributed both to Purcell and John Blow)
  5. Once, Twice, Thrice
  6. When the Cock Begins to Crow
  7. An Epitaph: "Under This Stone"

    8. Love songs, ribald and tender

    Earl of Mornington (1735-1761)
  8. 'Twas You, Sir

    9. Jeremy Savile (17th century)
  9. Had She Not Care Enough (on a widow who married an old widower)

    10. William Turner(1651-1739/40)
  10. Young Anthony

    11. Anon. (published 1764)
  11. Amo, Amas, I Love a Lass

    12. William Cornyshe: (c.1465 - c.1523)
  12. Ah, Robin

    13. William Lawes (d.1645)
  13. Bess Black

    14. Drinking Songs and Tavern Philosophies

    Anon. (published 1609)
  14. I Am Athirst

    15. John Eccles (1650-1735)
  15. Wine Does Wonders

    16. William Cornyshe (c.1465 - c.1523)
  16. Hoyda, Jolly Rutterkin

    17. Henry Purcell
  17. An Ape, a Lion, a Fox and an Ass

    18. Anon. (collected by Thomas Lant, 1580)
  18. Troll the Bowl

    19. John Travers (1703-1758)
  19. Fair and Ugly, False and True

    20. Two centuries of English life in song

    Anon. (Soldiers back from the Flemish wars, published 1614)
  20. We Be Soldiers Three

    21. John Bennet (born c. 1570)
  21. Hunting madrigal: Lure, Falconers, Lure!

    22. Henry Lawes (1595-1662): Age of Milton
  22. Sing Fair Clorinda

    23. Benjamin Rogers (1614-98)
  23. Restoration pastoral: In the Merry Month of May

    24. Henry Purcell
  24. Patriotic song: True Englismen

    25. Reginald Spofforth (1770-1827)
  25. 18th century glee club: L'Ape e la Serpe

    26. The Pleasures of Drink

    John Hilton (1599-1657)
  26. Call George Again

    27. Country Side Pleasantries

    Luffman Atterbury
  27. As t'Other Day

    28. Sophisticated Rake and Innocent Maid

    Thomas Arne
  28. The Street Intrigue

    29. Strange Sights in the Countryside

    John Blow
  29. Batholomew Fair

    30. Meanwhile at the Tavern

    Anon.
  30. He That Will an Alehouse Keep

    31. The Hopeless Lover

    John Blow (arr. Maurice Bevan)
  31. The Self Banished

    32. The Wedding Night

    Anon.
  32. Inigo Jones

    33. More Drinking

    Thomas Arne
  33. Which Is the Properest Day to Drink

    34. Trials of Married Life

    John Blow:
  34. Galloping Joan

    35. Spring is Ending

    Anon.
  35. Sumer is icumen in

    36. Scenes of Married Life

    William Boyce
  36. John Cooper

    37. The Pleading Lover

    Henry Lawes (arr. Whitworth)
  37. The Captive Lovers

    38. More Scenes of Married Life

    Henry Purcell
  38. Young Collin

    39. To Drink or Not to Drink

    Henry Purcell
  39. If All Be True

    40. A Child and a Lullaby

    Joseph Barnby
  40. Sweet and Low

    41. CD-2
    The Cries of London - Tavern Songs

    John Cobb (17c.; ed. Denis Stevens)
  41. These Are the Cries of London Town

    42. Thomas Ravenscroft (c.1590 - c.1633; ed. Stevens)
  42. New Oysters

    43. Richard Dering (d.1630; ed. Stevens)
  43. The Cries of London

    44. Thomas Ravencroft (ed. Stevens):
  44. A Bellman's Song

    45. Anon. (ed. Stevens):
  45. New Oysters
  46. The Painter's Song

    47. William Savage (18c.; ed. Stevens)
  47. Muffins Ho!

    48. Richard Dering (ed. Henry Revell)
  48. Country Cries

    49. Anon. (ed. Stevens)
  49. A Quart a Penny
  50. I Can Mend Your Tubs and Pails

    51. Edmund Nelham (ed. Stevens)
  51. Have You Any Work for the Tinker?

    52. Thomas Ravencroft (ed. Stevens)
  52. Brooms for Old Shoes

    53. Thomas Weelkes (ed. Jeremy Noble)
  53. The Cries of London

    54. Luffman Atterbury (ed. Stevens)
  54. One a Penny, Two a Penny

    55. William Lawes
  55. She Weepeth Sore in the Night
    56. Henry Lawes
  56. Angler's Song

    57. Jonathan Bartishill
  57. Here on His Back

    58. CD-3
    The Three Ravens / The Wraggle-Taggle Gypsies

    Anon., ca 16th-17th c.:
  58. The Three Ravens
  59. The Cuckoo
  60. How Should I Your True Love Know (Ophelia's song from Hamlet)
  61. Sweet Nightingale
  62. I Will Give My Love an Apple
  63. The Oak and the Ash
  64. King Henry
  65. Coventry Carol
  66. Barbara Allen
  67. Heigh Ho, the Wind and the Rain ("Twelfth Night")
  68. Waly, Waly
  69. Down in Yon Forest
  70. Matthew, Mark, Luke and John
  71. The Tailor and the Mouse
  72. Greensleaves

    73. Anon.:
  73. The Wraggle Taggle Gypsies
  74. Lord Rendall
  75. Sweet Jane
  76. The Frog and the Mouse
  77. The Seeds of Love
  78. Flowers in the Valley
  79. Near London Town
  80. O Who's Going to Shoe Your Pretty Little Foot
  81. Blow Away the Morning Dew
  82. Searching for lambs
  83. Sweet England
  84. Dabbling in the Dew
  85. Strawberry Fair
  86. Just as the Tide Was A-Flowing

    87. CD-4
    Folk Songs Album / English Lute Songs

    Anon. trad. British, arr. Ralph Vaughan Williams
  87. An Acre of Land
  88. A Farmer's Son So Sweet
  89. The Lover's Ghost
  90. The Turtle Dove
  91. John Dory
  92. Greensleeves
  93. The Jolly Ploughboy
  94. Wassail Song
  95. Down by the Riverside
  96. Bushes and Briars
  97. Just as the Tide was Flowing
  98. Ca' the Yowes
  99. My Boy Billy
  100. The Spring Time of the Year
  101. Ward the Pirate
  102. The Painful Plough
  103. The Dark-Eyed Sailor
  104. The Cuckoo and the Nightingale
  105. Loch Lomond

    106. Thomas Campion:
  106. Shall I come sweet love to thee

    107. Thomas Morley:
  107. Will ye by a fine dog

    108. John Dowland:
  108. Me, me and none but me
  109. Wilt thou unkind

    110. CD-5
    Awake, Sweet Love - Airs & Partsongs of John Dowland / English Lute Songs

    John Dowland: First Book of Airs, 1597
  110. Wilt thou, unkind, thus reave me?
  111. Awake, sweet love

    112. John Dowland: A Musical Banquet, 1610
  112. In darkness let me dwell

    113. John Dowland: Third Book of Airs, 1603
  113. Me, me, and none but me

    114. John Dowland: A Pilgrim' Solace, 1612
  114. Go, nightly cares

    115. John Dowland: First Book of Airs, 1597
  115. If my complaints could passions move
  116. Sleep, wayward thoughts

    117. John Dowland: Third Book of Airs, 1603
  117. Flow not so fast, Ye fountains

    118. John Dowland: First Book of Airs, 1597
  118. Come again! Sweet love doth now invite

    119. John Dowland: Second Book of Airs, 1600
  119. Sorrow, stay

    120. John Dowland:
  120. If that a sinner's sighs

    121. Francis Pilkington
  121. Rest, sweet Nymph

    122. John Dowland:
  122. What if I never speed

    123. Thomas Campion:
  123. Care charming sleep

    124. John Dowland:
  124. Shall I sue

    125. CD-6
    Awake, Sweet Love / The Cruel Mother / The Western Wind

    John Dowland: Second Book of Airs, 1600
  125. Fine knack for ladies
  126. Flow, my tears

    127. John Dowland: First Book of Airs, 1597
  127. Can she excuse my wrongs

    128. Anon., from various collections:
  128. When Cockleshells Turn Silver Bells
  129. An Eriskay Love Lilt
  130. Peggy Ramsay
  131. Bushes and Briars
  132. Brigg Fair
  133. The Cruel Mother
  134. A Sweet Country Life
  135. The Bitter Withy
  136. Lang A-Growing
  137. The Lover's Ghost
  138. Lovely Joan
  139. She Moved Through the Fair
  140. A Brisk Young Lad he Courted Me
  141. Geordie

    142. Anon.
  142. Western wind
  143. Early One Morning
  144. Black is the color
  145. All the pretty Little Horses
  146. Capstan shanty: Lowlands

    147. Anon./William Butler Yeats (t)
  147. The Sally gardens

    148. Anon./Thomas Moore (t)
  148. Bendemeer's stream

    149. CD-7
    English Lute Songs - Western Wind

    Anon.:
  149. Have you seen but a white lilly

    150. Philip Rosseter:
  150. When Laura smiles

    151. John Dowland:
  151. Come again! Sweet love doth now invite

    152. John Danyel:
  152. Chromatic tunes

    153. Anon./William Douglas of Fingland (t), 1685
  153. Annie Laurie

    154. Anon.
  154. The Miller of the dee
  155. Cockles and mussels

    156. Anon./Ben Johnson (t)
  156. Drink to me only

    157. Anon.
  157. The foggy, foggy dew
  158. Frog went A-courtin'
  159. The turtle dove
  160. Pretty Polly Oliver
  161. The Carrion crow
  162. The wife of Usher's Well
  163. Henry Martin

    164. Anon., early settlers of De Kalb County, Texas
  164. I am a poor wayfaring stranger

    165. Anon.:
  165. Cold blows the wind
  166. Skye boat song

    167. Anon., from Cecil Sharp's "English Folksongs of the South Appalachians":
  167. When the Sun Goes In

    168. Anon.:
  168. Song of a Wedding

    169. CD-ROM

Performers, recording site and date:
See links below;
Rel.: 2008

Playing time: 78' 21"+44' 34"+74' 15"+60' 49"+56' 14"+66' 40"+61' 03" = 7h 23' 56"

Reviewed in:
Diapason (#-p.): 561-86 (September 2008)
Fanfare (Vol./#-p.): 32/4-285 (Mar/Apr 2009)
Gramophone (Vol./#-p.): 1042/86-89 (March 2009)

Excerpts:
[1]-[25] Vanguard "The Bach Guild" BG-561 [LP] Tavern Songs: catches, glees and other diverse entertainments of merrie england
[26]-[40], [55]-[57] Vanguard "The Bach Guild" BG-602 [LP] Tavern Songs, Vol. 2; A Collection of Catches and Glees Both Ribald and Refined
[41]-[54] Vanguard "The Bach Guild" BG 563 [LP] The Cries of London: Fantasias by Weelkes, Dering, Ravenscroft and others
[58]-[72] Vanguard "Library Edition" BG-479 [LP] The Three Ravens: Songs of Folk and Minstrelsy out of Elizabethan England
[73]-[86] Vanguard "Library Edition"; VRS-1001 [LP] The Wraggle Taggle Gipsies: Folk Songs and Ballads of Elizabethan England
[87]-[105] Vanguard "The Bach Guild" VRS-1055 [LP] Vaughan Williams – Folk Songs Album
[106]-[109], [121]-[124], [149]-[152] Vanguard "The Bach Guild" BG 576 [LP] English Lute Songs
[110]-[120], [125]-[127] Vanguard "The Bach Guild" BG-673 [LP] John Dowland - Awake, Sweet Love, Airs & Partsongs
[128]-[141] Vanguard VRS-1073 [LP] The Cruel Mother and other Englidh Ballads and Folksongs
[142]-[148], [153]-[164] Vanguard "Library Edition" VRS-1031 [LP] Western Wind and other English folk songs and ballads
[165]-[168] Vanguard Classics OVC-8111 [CD] Western Wind and Other English Folk Songs and Ballads

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