Deller Vol. 4; Handel, Bach & The English Renaissance – Alfred Deller: Deller Consort, Gustav Leonhardt, Nikolaus Harnoncourt

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George Frideric Handel: Jephta-Oratorio (1752), HWV 70 -- 'Tis Heaven's all-ruling pow'r

Alfred Deller (Counter Tenor)

3:04

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George Frideric Handel: Jephta-Oratorio (1752), HWV 70 -- O spare your daughter

Alfred Deller (Counter Tenor)

2:37

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George Frideric Handel: Jephta-Oratorio (1752), HWV 70 -- Laud her all ye virgin train

Alfred Deller (Counter Tenor)

3:10

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George Frideric Handel: Serse-Opera (1738-London) -- Ombra mai fu

Alfred Deller (Counter Tenor)

4:20

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George Frideric Handel: Orlando-Opera (1733-London) -- Ah! Stigie larve

Alfred Deller (Counter Tenor)

8:06

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George Frideric Handel: L'Allegro, il Pensoroso ed il Moderato-Oratorio (1740), HWV 55 -- Let me wander

Alfred Deller (Counter Tenor)

2:02

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George Frideric Handel: Orlando-Opera (1733-London) -- Cielo se tu il consenti

Alfred Deller (Counter Tenor)

5:22

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George Frideric Handel: Rinaldo-Opera (1711-London) -- Lascia ch'io pianga

Alfred Deller (Counter Tenor)

4:41

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George Frideric Handel: Theodora-Oratorio (1750), HWV 68 -- Kind Heav'n, if Virtue be thy care

Alfred Deller (Counter Tenor)

2:36

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George Frideric Handel: Theodora-Oratorio (1750), HWV 68 -- Wide spread his name

Alfred Deller (Counter Tenor)

2:34

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George Frideric Handel: Theodora-Oratorio (1750), HWV 68 -- Sweet Rose, and Lilly, flow'ry Form

Alfred Deller (Counter Tenor)

3:13

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George Frideric Handel: Theodora-Oratorio (1750), HWV 68 -- To thee thou glorious son of worth

Alfred Deller (Counter Tenor)

5:17

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George Frideric Handel: Coronation Anthems -- Zadok the priest

Oriana Concert Choir and Orchestra & Alfred Deller (Conductor)

1:50

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George Frideric Handel: Coronation Anthems -- The King shall rejoice

Oriana Concert Choir and Orchestra & Alfred Deller (Conductor)

1:44

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George Frideric Handel: Coronation Anthems -- Let thy hand be strenghtened

Oriana Concert Choir and Orchestra & Alfred Deller (Conductor)

1:36

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George Frideric Handel: Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne -- Largo: Eternal source of light divine

Honor Sheppard (Soprano), Alfred Deller (Conductor) & Oriana Concert Choir

8:27

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George Frideric Handel: Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne -- Andante: Let all the winged ...

Honor Sheppard (Soprano), Alfred Deller (Conductor) & Oriana Concert Choir

1:30

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George Frideric Handel: Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne -- Andante: Let flocks ...

Honor Sheppard (Soprano), Alfred Deller (Counter Tenor) & Oriana Concert Choir

2:04

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George Frideric Handel: Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne -- Let rolling streams ...

Honor Sheppard (Soprano), Alfred Deller (Conductor) & Oriana Concert Choir

1:37

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George Frideric Handel: Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne -- Kind health descends

Honor Sheppard (Soprano), Alfred Deller (Conductor) & Oriana Concert Choir

2:42

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George Frideric Handel: Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne -- Let envy then conceal her head

Honor Sheppard (Soprano), Oriana Concert Choir & Alfred Deller (Conductor)

1:40

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George Frideric Handel: Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne -- United nations shall combine

Honor Sheppard (Soprano), Alfred Deller (Counter Tenor) & Oriana Concert Choir

1:58

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Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata 170 "Vergnügte Ruh' beliebte Seelenlust" -- Aria: Vergnügte Ruh'

Alfred Deller (Counter Tenor)

3:11

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Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata 170 "Vergnügte Ruh' beliebte Seelenlust" -- Recitative: Die Welt, das Sündenhaus

Alfred Deller (Counter Tenor)

5:37

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Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata 170 "Vergnügte Ruh' beliebte Seelenlust" -- Aria: Wie jammern

Alfred Deller (Counter Tenor)

9:44

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Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata 170 "Vergnügte Ruh' beliebte Seelenlust" -- Recitative: Wer solte sich

Alfred Deller (Counter Tenor)

6:18

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Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata 170 "Vergnügte Ruh' beliebte Seelenlust" -- Aria: Wie leid ist mir das Leben

Alfred Deller (Counter Tenor)

8:06

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Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata 54 "Widerstehe doch der Sünde" -- Aria: Widerstehe

Alfred Deller (Counter Tenor)

9:02

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Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata 54 "Widerstehe doch der Sünde" -- Recitative: Die Art

Alfred Deller (Counter Tenor)

1:08

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Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata 54 "Widerstehe doch der Sünde" -- Aria: Wer Sunde tut

Alfred Deller (Counter Tenor)

3:26

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Johann Sebastian Bach: Mass in b minor, BWV233 -- Agnus Dei

Alfred Deller (Counter Tenor)

5:35

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George Frideric Handel: Alexander's Feast – Part I -- Overture (Maestoso–Allegro ma non troppo–Andante)

Honor Sheppard (Soprano)

6:47

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George Frideric Handel: Alexander's Feast – Part I -- Recitative: 'Twas at the royal feast

Honor Sheppard (Soprano) & Alfred Deller (Counter Tenor)

1:26

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George Frideric Handel: Alexander's Feast – Part I -- Air and Chorus: Happy, happy, happy

Honor Sheppard (Soprano) & Alfred Deller (Counter Tenor)

5:05

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George Frideric Handel: Alexander's Feast – Part I -- Recitative: Timotheus, plac'd on high

Honor Sheppard (Soprano) & Alfred Deller (Counter Tenor)

0:35

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George Frideric Handel: Alexander's Feast – Part I -- Accompanied recitative: The song began

Honor Sheppard (Soprano) & Alfred Deller (Counter Tenor)

1:04

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George Frideric Handel: Alexander's Feast – Part I -- Chorus: The list'ning crowd

Honor Sheppard (Soprano) & Alfred Deller (Counter Tenor)

2:43

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George Frideric Handel: Alexander's Feast – Part I -- Air: With ravish'd ears

Honor Sheppard (Soprano) & Alfred Deller (Counter Tenor)

4:06

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George Frideric Handel: Alexander's Feast – Part I -- Recitative: The praise of Bacchus

Honor Sheppard (Soprano) & Alfred Deller (Counter Tenor)

0:38

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George Frideric Handel: Alexander's Feast – Part I -- Air and Chorus: Bacchus, ever fair

Honor Sheppard (Soprano) & Alfred Deller (Counter Tenor)

4:13

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George Frideric Handel: Alexander's Feast – Part I -- Recitative: Sooth'd with the sound

Honor Sheppard (Soprano) & Alfred Deller (Counter Tenor)

0:58

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George Frideric Handel: Alexander's Feast – Part I -- Accompanied recitative: He chose a mournful Muse

Honor Sheppard (Soprano) & Alfred Deller (Counter Tenor)

1:29

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George Frideric Handel: Alexander's Feast – Part I -- Air: He sung Darius

Honor Sheppard (Soprano) & Alfred Deller (Counter Tenor)

3:44

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George Frideric Handel: Alexander's Feast – Part I -- Accompanied recitative: With downcast looks

Honor Sheppard (Soprano) & Alfred Deller (Counter Tenor)

1:12

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George Frideric Handel: Alexander's Feast – Part I -- Chorus: Behold Darius

Honor Sheppard (Soprano) & Alfred Deller (Counter Tenor)

3:35

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George Frideric Handel: Alexander's Feast – Part I -- Recitative: The mighty master smil'd

Honor Sheppard (Soprano) & Alfred Deller (Counter Tenor)

0:41

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George Frideric Handel: Alexander's Feast – Part I -- Air: Softly sweet in Lydian measures

Honor Sheppard (Soprano) & Alfred Deller (Counter Tenor)

3:27

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George Frideric Handel: Alexander's Feast – Part I -- Air: War, he sung, is toil and trouble

Honor Sheppard (Soprano) & Alfred Deller (Counter Tenor)

5:41

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George Frideric Handel: Alexander's Feast – Part I -- Chorus: The many rend the skies

Honor Sheppard (Soprano) & Alfred Deller (Counter Tenor)

4:00

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George Frideric Handel: Alexander's Feast – Part I -- Air: The Prince, unable to conceal

Honor Sheppard (Soprano) & Alfred Deller (Counter Tenor)

7:47

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George Frideric Handel: Alexander's Feast – Part I -- Chorus da capo: The many rend the skies

Honor Sheppard (Soprano) & Alfred Deller (Counter Tenor)

4:10

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George Frideric Handel: Alexander's Feast – Part II -- Accompanied recitative: Now strike the golden Lyre again

Honor Sheppard (Soprano) & Alfred Deller (Counter Tenor)

1:35

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George Frideric Handel: Alexander's Feast – Part II -- Chorus: Break his bands of sleep asunder

Honor Sheppard (Soprano) & Alfred Deller (Counter Tenor)

1:55

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George Frideric Handel: Alexander's Feast – Part II -- Air: Revenge, revenge

Honor Sheppard (Soprano) & Alfred Deller (Counter Tenor)

2:04

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George Frideric Handel: Alexander's Feast – Part II -- Largo: Behold the ghastly band

Honor Sheppard (Soprano) & Alfred Deller (Counter Tenor)

4:53

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George Frideric Handel: Alexander's Feast – Part II -- Air da capo: Revenge, revenge

Honor Sheppard (Soprano) & Alfred Deller (Counter Tenor)

2:11

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George Frideric Handel: Alexander's Feast – Part II -- Accompanied recitative: Give the vengeance due

Honor Sheppard (Soprano) & Alfred Deller (Counter Tenor)

2:10

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George Frideric Handel: Alexander's Feast – Part II -- Air: The princes applaud

Honor Sheppard (Soprano) & Alfred Deller (Counter Tenor)

2:30

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George Frideric Handel: Alexander's Feast – Part II -- Air and chorus: Thais led the way

Honor Sheppard (Soprano) & Alfred Deller (Counter Tenor)

5:04

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George Frideric Handel: Alexander's Feast – Part II -- Accompanied recitative: Thus, long ago

Honor Sheppard (Soprano) & Alfred Deller (Counter Tenor)

2:55

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George Frideric Handel: Alexander's Feast – Part II -- Chorus: At last divine Cecilia came

Honor Sheppard (Soprano) & Alfred Deller (Counter Tenor)

4:36

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George Frideric Handel: Alexander's Feast – Part II -- Recitative: Let old Timotheus yield the prize

Honor Sheppard (Soprano) & Alfred Deller (Counter Tenor)

0:35

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George Frideric Handel: Alexander's Feast – Part II -- Chorus and soloists: Let old Timotheus yield the prize

Honor Sheppard (Soprano) & Alfred Deller (Counter Tenor)

3:54

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John Dowland: Book of Airs, 1597 -- Air: Can she excuse my wrongs ?

Alfred Deller (Counter Tenor) & Gustav Leonhardt (Harpsichord)

4:12

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Thomas Morley: A Plaine and Easie Introduction to Practicall Musicke -- Air for three viols (instr.)

Alfred Deller (Counter Tenor) & Gustav Leonhardt (Harpsichord)

1:31

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John Bartlett (m) / George Gascoigne (t): A Book of Ayres ... 1606 -- Air: Of all the birds that I do know

Alfred Deller (Counter Tenor) & Gustav Leonhardt (Harpsichord)

2:02

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Robert Johnson: Fitwilliam Virginal Book -- Alman for harpsichord (set by Gilles Farnaby) (instr.)

Alfred Deller (Counter Tenor) & Gustav Leonhardt (Harpsichord)

1:17

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John Dowland: Book of Airs, 1597 -- Air: If my complaints could passions move

Alfred Deller (Counter Tenor) & Gustav Leonhardt (Harpsichord)

4:27

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John Jenkins: Pavan for four viols (instr.) --

Alfred Deller (Counter Tenor) & Gustav Leonhardt (Harpsichord)

5:58

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Thomas Campian: Rosseter's Book of Ayres, 1601 -- Air: I care not for these ladies

Alfred Deller (Counter Tenor) & Gustav Leonhardt (Harpsichord)

1:45

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John Dowland: Air for lute solo: My Lady Hunsdon's Puffe (instr.) --

Alfred Deller (Counter Tenor) & Gustav Leonhardt (Harpsichord)

1:04

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Robert Parsons: Air: Pandolpho (orn. for lute) --

Alfred Deller (Counter Tenor) & Gustav Leonhardt (Harpsichord)

7:24

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John Jenkins: Fantasia in C for four viols (instr.) --

Alfred Deller (Counter Tenor) & Gustav Leonhardt (Harpsichord)

5:00

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John Dowland: A Pilgrim's Solace -- Air: From silent night

Alfred Deller (Counter Tenor) & Gustav Leonhardt (Harpsichord)

5:19

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Giles Farnaby: Fitwilliam Virginal Book -- Variations for harpsichord on “Up Tails All“ (instr.)

Alfred Deller (Counter Tenor) & Gustav Leonhardt (Harpsichord)

5:57

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Thomas Tallis: The Lamentations of Jeremiah the Prophet, Part I -- Incipit Lamentatio Jeremiae Prophetae

Deller Consort

1:12

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Thomas Tallis: The Lamentations of Jeremiah the Prophet, Part I -- Aleph; Quomodo sedet

Deller Consort

2:37

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Thomas Tallis: The Lamentations of Jeremiah the Prophet, Part I -- Beth

Deller Consort

0:30

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Thomas Tallis: The Lamentations of Jeremiah the Prophet, Part I -- Plorans ploravit

Deller Consort

4:08

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Thomas Tallis: The Lamentations of Jeremiah the Prophet, Part II -- De Lamentatione Jeremiae Prophetae

Deller Consort

1:37

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Thomas Tallis: The Lamentations of Jeremiah the Prophet, Part II -- Ghimel

Deller Consort

1:00

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Thomas Tallis: The Lamentations of Jeremiah the Prophet, Part II -- Migravit Judas

Deller Consort

1:59

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Thomas Tallis: The Lamentations of Jeremiah the Prophet, Part II -- Daleth

Deller Consort

0:33

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Thomas Tallis: The Lamentations of Jeremiah the Prophet, Part II -- Omnes persecutores

Deller Consort

3:28

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Thomas Tallis: The Lamentations of Jeremiah the Prophet, Part II -- Heth

Deller Consort

0:32

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Thomas Tallis: The Lamentations of Jeremiah the Prophet, Part II -- Facti sunt

Deller Consort

4:45

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Thomas Tallis: Jesu salvator saeculi --

Deller Consort

5:16

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Thomas Tallis: Deus tuorum militum --

Deller Consort

4:11

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Thomas Tallis: O nata lux de lumine --

Deller Consort

2:10

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Thomas Tallis: Jam Christus astra ascenderat --

Deller Consort

5:39

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Thomas Tallis: Salvator mundi Domine --

Deller Consort

5:19

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Anon., arr. Edmund Fellowes, British Museum, Add. Mss. 17, 786-91: My Sweet Little Darling --

Alfred Deller (Counter Tenor)

3:04

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Anon., arr. Peter Warlock, Christ Church, Oxford, Mss. 984-8: Guichardo --

Alfred Deller (Counter Tenor)

4:40

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William Corkine, arr. Thurston Dart: What Bootheth Love ? --

Alfred Deller (Counter Tenor)

3:17

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Anon., arr. Peter Warlock: Ah, Silly Poor Joas --

Alfred Deller (Counter Tenor)

1:49

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Thomas Whythorne, arr. Peter Warlock: Buy New Broom --

Alfred Deller (Counter Tenor)

1:24

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William Byrd, arr. Fellowes: Elegy on the death of Thomas Tallis, 1585 -- Ye Sacred Muses

Alfred Deller (Counter Tenor)

3:52

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William Byrd, arr. Edmund Fellowes, : Psalms, Sonnets, and Songs of Sadness and Piety, made into Music of Five Parts, 1588 -- Lullaby, My Sweet Little Baby

Alfred Deller (Counter Tenor)

7:01

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Richard Nicholson, arr. Peter Warlock: In a Merry May Morn --

Alfred Deller (Counter Tenor)

1:26

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Robert Parsons, arr. Peter Warlock: Pandolpho --

Alfred Deller (Counter Tenor)

4:07

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William Byrd, arr. Peter le Huray & Thurston Dart: Come, pretty Babe --

Alfred Deller (Counter Tenor)

1:32

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Anon., arr. Peter Warlock: O Death, Rock Me Asleep --

Alfred Deller (Counter Tenor)

3:04

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John Blow: The Self-Banished --

Alfred Deller (Counter Tenor) & Gustav Leonhardt (Harpsichord)

3:34

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John Weldon: The Nightingale --

Alfred Deller (Counter Tenor) & Gustav Leonhardt (Harpsichord)

1:37

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Georg Friedrich Händel: from Rodelinda, 1725 -- Dove sei

Alfred Deller (Counter Tenor) & Gustav Leonhardt (Harpsichord)

4:15

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Johann Sebastian Bach: from the Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach, 1725 -- Bist du bei mir

Alfred Deller (Counter Tenor) & Gustav Leonhardt (Harpsichord)

2:59

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Matthew Locke: Melothsia, 1673 -- Voluntary in G for organ

Gustav Leonhardt (organ)

1:10

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Henry Purcell: Elegy on the death of Queen Mary, 1695 -- The Queen's Epicedium

Alfred Deller (Counter Tenor) & Gustav Leonhardt (Harpsichord)

7:10

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Matthew Locke: Melothsia, 1673 -- Voluntary in F for organ

Gustav Leonhardt (organ)

1:33

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Pelham Humfrey (or Hemphryes): Harmonia Sacra, Book I, 1688 -- A Hymn to God the Father

Alfred Deller (Counter Tenor) & Gustav Leonhardt (organ)

3:33

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Thomas Morley: The First Book of Canzonets to Two Voices, 1595 -- Sweet Nymph, Come to Thy Lover

Alfred Deller

1:41

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Henry Purcell: Love's Goddess Birthday Song for Queen Mary, 1692 -- Sweetness of Nature

Alfred Deller

3:41

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Robert Jones: A Musicall Dreame or 4th Book of Airs -- Sweet Kate

Alfred Deller

1:46

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Thomas Morley: Canzonets for Two Voices -- Miraculous love's wounding

Alfred Deller

2:59

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Thomas Morley: Canzonets for Two Voices -- I go before, my darling

Alfred Deller

1:28

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John Blow: Amphion Anglicus (London, 1600) -- If my Celia could persuade

Alfred Deller

3:01

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John Blow: Amphion Anglicus (London, 1600) -- Ah Heav'n! What is it I hear?

Alfred Deller

3:18

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Richard Deering: Cantica Sacra (London, 1662) -- O bone Jesu

Alfred Deller

3:11

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Richard Deering: Cantica Sacra (London, 1662) -- Gaudent in coelis

Alfred Deller

1:33

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Anon., Fayrfax Ms (er. John Stevens): Ah, My Dear Son --

Alfred Deller

6:09