Tavern Songs, Vol. 2

Tavern Songs, Vol. 2
A Collection of Catches and Glees Both Ribald and Refined
The Deller Consort - Alfred Deller, dir.
Vanguard "The Bach Guild" BG-602 [LP, mono, NA]
Vanguard "The Bach Guild" BGS-5030 [LP, stereo, NA]

Contents:

    The Pleasures of Drink

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

    2. Country Side Pleasantries

    Luffman Atterbury
  2. As t'Other Day

    3. Sophisticated Rake and Innocent Maid

    Thomas Arne
  3. The Street Intrigue

    4. Strange Sights in the Countryside

    John Blow
  4. Batholomew Fair

    5. Meanwhile at the Tavern

    Anon.
  5. He That Will an Alehouse Keep

    6. The Hopeless Lover

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

    7. The Wedding Night

    Anon.
  7. Inigo Jones

    8. More Drinking

    Thomas Arne
  8. Which Is the Properest Day to Drink

    9. Trials of Married Life

    John Blow:
  9. Galloping Joan

    10. Spring is Ending

    Anon.
  10. Sumer is icumen in

    11. Scenes of Married Life

    William Boyce
  11. John Cooper

    12. The Pleading Lover

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

    13. More Scenes of Married Life

    Henry Purcell
  13. Young Collin

    14. To Drink or Not to Drink

    Henry Purcell
  14. If All Be True

    15. A Child and a Lullaby

    Joseph Barnby
  15. Sweet and Low

    16. ---

    William Lawes
  16. She Weepeth Sore in the Night

    17. Henry Lawes
  17. Angler's Song

    18. Jonathan Bartishill
  18. Here on His Back

Performers:
The Deller Consort
Alfred Deller (counter-tenor), Edgar Fleet (tenor), Gerald English (tenor), Owen Grundy (baritone), Maurice Bevan (bass)
Alfred Deller, dir.

Playing time: ??' ??"

Recording site and date:
Unknown [05/1960];
Rel.: 1961

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

Excerpts:
[1]-[15] Vanguard Classics 08 5039 71 - Tavern Songs - 40 Catches, Glees etc. of Merrie England
[5] Vanguard "The Bach Guild" BG-606 Musical Panorama of Shakespeare's England [mono, NA market].
[10], [15] Vanguard (Silverminds Music) Classics 99 220 [CD] 50 years of The Deller Consort - The early years 1955-1963
[15] Vanguard VSD 729/30 "The Art of Alfred Deller".

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Comments:
Information from CD (MC); the MC release adds Gerald English (tenor) as a performer.

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Pierre-F. Roberge