Alfred Deller: Music of Handel, Bach and the English Renaissance. Vol.4 (6 CD box set, FLAC)

Performer: Maurice Bevan, John Frost
Composer: George Frederick Handel, Johann Sebastian Bach, John Dowland, Thomas Morley, John Bartlet, et al.
Audio CD
Number of Discs: 6 CD box set
Format: FLAC (image+cue)
Label: Musical Concepts
Size: 1.87 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes

Disc 1:
01. George Frideric Handel: Jephta-Oratorio (1752), HWV 70 — ‘Tis Heaven’s all-ruling pow’r
02. George Frideric Handel: Jephta-Oratorio (1752), HWV 70 — O spare your daughter
03. George Frideric Handel: Jephta-Oratorio (1752), HWV 70 — Laud her all ye virgin train
04. George Frideric Handel: Serse-Opera (1738-London) — Ombra mai fu
05. George Frideric Handel: Orlando-Opera (1733-London) — Ah! Stigie larve
06. George Frideric Handel: L’Allegro, il Pensoroso ed il Moderato-Oratorio (1740), HWV 55 — Let me wander
07. George Frideric Handel: Orlando-Opera (1733-London) — Cielo se tu il consenti
08. George Frideric Handel: Rinaldo-Opera (1711-London) — Lascia ch’io pianga
09. George Frideric Handel: Theodora-Oratorio (1750), HWV 68 — Kind Heav’n, if Virtue be thy care
10. George Frideric Handel: Theodora-Oratorio (1750), HWV 68 — Wide spread his name
11. George Frideric Handel: Theodora-Oratorio (1750), HWV 68 — Sweet Rose, and Lilly, flow’ry Form
12. George Frideric Handel: Theodora-Oratorio (1750), HWV 68 — To thee thou glorious son of worth
13. George Frideric Handel: Coronation Anthems — Zadok the priest
14. George Frideric Handel: Coronation Anthems — The King shall rejoice
15. George Frideric Handel: Coronation Anthems — Let thy hand be strenghtened

Disc 2:
01. George Frideric Handel: Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne — Largo: Eternal source of light divine
02. George Frideric Handel: Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne — Andante: Let all the winged …
03. George Frideric Handel: Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne — Andante: Let flocks …
04. George Frideric Handel: Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne — Let rolling streams …
05. George Frideric Handel: Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne — Kind health descends
06. George Frideric Handel: Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne — Let envy then conceal her head
07. George Frideric Handel: Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne — United nations shall combine
08. Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata 170 “Vergnügte Ruh’ beliebte Seelenlust” — Aria: Vergnügte Ruh’
09. Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata 170 “Vergnügte Ruh’ beliebte Seelenlust” — Recitative: Die Welt, das Sündenhaus
10. Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata 170 “Vergnügte Ruh’ beliebte Seelenlust” — Aria: Wie jammern
11. Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata 170 “Vergnügte Ruh’ beliebte Seelenlust” — Recitative: Wer solte sich
12. Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata 170 “Vergnügte Ruh’ beliebte Seelenlust” — Aria: Wie leid ist mir das Leben
13. Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata 54 “Widerstehe doch der Sünde” — Aria: Widerstehe
14. Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata 54 “Widerstehe doch der Sünde” — Recitative: Die Art
15. Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata 54 “Widerstehe doch der Sünde” — Aria: Wer Sunde tut
16. Johann Sebastian Bach: Mass in b minor, BWV233 — Agnus Dei

Disc 3:
01. George Frideric Handel: Alexander’s Feast – Part I — Overture (Maestoso-Allegro ma non troppo-Andante)
02. George Frideric Handel: Alexander’s Feast – Part I — Recitative: ‘Twas at the royal feast
03. George Frideric Handel: Alexander’s Feast – Part I — Air and Chorus: Happy, happy, happy
04. George Frideric Handel: Alexander’s Feast – Part I — Recitative: Timotheus, plac’d on high
05. George Frideric Handel: Alexander’s Feast – Part I — Accompanied recitative: The song began
06. George Frideric Handel: Alexander’s Feast – Part I — Chorus: The list’ning crowd
07. George Frideric Handel: Alexander’s Feast – Part I — Air: With ravish’d ears
08. George Frideric Handel: Alexander’s Feast – Part I — Recitative: The praise of Bacchus
09. George Frideric Handel: Alexander’s Feast – Part I — Air and Chorus: Bacchus, ever fair
10. George Frideric Handel: Alexander’s Feast – Part I — Recitative: Sooth’d with the sound
11. George Frideric Handel: Alexander’s Feast – Part I — Accompanied recitative: He chose a mournful Muse
12. George Frideric Handel: Alexander’s Feast – Part I — Air: He sung Darius
13. George Frideric Handel: Alexander’s Feast – Part I — Accompanied recitative: With downcast looks
14. George Frideric Handel: Alexander’s Feast – Part I — Chorus: Behold Darius
15. George Frideric Handel: Alexander’s Feast – Part I — Recitative: The mighty master smil’d
16. George Frideric Handel: Alexander’s Feast – Part I — Air: Softly sweet in Lydian measures
17. George Frideric Handel: Alexander’s Feast – Part I — Air: War, he sung, is toil and trouble
18. George Frideric Handel: Alexander’s Feast – Part I — Chorus: The many rend the skies
19. George Frideric Handel: Alexander’s Feast – Part I — Air: The Prince, unable to conceal
20. George Frideric Handel: Alexander’s Feast – Part I — Chorus da capo: The many rend the skies
21. George Frideric Handel: Alexander’s Feast – Part II — Accompanied recitative: Now strike the golden Lyre again
22. George Frideric Handel: Alexander’s Feast – Part II — Chorus: Break his bands of sleep asunder
23. George Frideric Handel: Alexander’s Feast – Part II — Air: Revenge, revenge
24. George Frideric Handel: Alexander’s Feast – Part II — Largo: Behold the ghastly band

Disc 4:
01. George Frideric Handel: Alexander’s Feast – Part II — Air da capo: Revenge, revenge
02. George Frideric Handel: Alexander’s Feast – Part II — Accompanied recitative: Give the vengeance due
03. George Frideric Handel: Alexander’s Feast – Part II — Air: The princes applaud
04. George Frideric Handel: Alexander’s Feast – Part II — Air and chorus: Thais led the way
05. George Frideric Handel: Alexander’s Feast – Part II — Accompanied recitative: Thus, long ago
06. George Frideric Handel: Alexander’s Feast – Part II — Chorus: At last divine Cecilia came
07. George Frideric Handel: Alexander’s Feast – Part II — Recitative: Let old Timotheus yield the prize
08. George Frideric Handel: Alexander’s Feast – Part II — Chorus and soloists: Let old Timotheus yield the prize
09. John Dowland: Book of Airs, 1597 — Air: Can she excuse my wrongs?
10. Thomas Morley: A Plaine and Easie Introduction to Practicall Musicke — Air for three viols (instr.)
11. John Bartlett (m) / George Gascoigne (t): A Book of Ayres … 1606 — Air: Of all the birds that I do know
12. Robert Johnson: Fitwilliam Virginal Book — Alman for harpsichord (set by Gilles Farnaby) (instr.)
13. John Dowland: Book of Airs, 1597 — Air: If my complaints could passions move
14. John Jenkins: Pavan for four viols (instr.)
15. Thomas Campian: Rosseter’s Book of Ayres, 1601 — Air: I care not for these ladies
16. John Dowland: Air for lute solo: My Lady Hunsdon’s Puffe (instr.)
17. Robert Parsons: Air: Pandolpho (orn. for lute)
18. John Jenkins: Fantasia in C for four viols (instr.)
19. John Dowland: A Pilgrim’s Solace — Air: From silent night
20. Giles Farnaby: Fitwilliam Virginal Book — Variations for harpsichord on “Up Tails All” (instr.)

Disc 5:
01. Thomas Tallis: The Lamentations of Jeremiah the Prophet, Part I — Incipit Lamentatio Jeremiae Prophetae
02. Thomas Tallis: The Lamentations of Jeremiah the Prophet, Part I — Aleph; Quomodo sedet
03. Thomas Tallis: The Lamentations of Jeremiah the Prophet, Part I — Beth
04. Thomas Tallis: The Lamentations of Jeremiah the Prophet, Part I — Plorans ploravit
05. Thomas Tallis: The Lamentations of Jeremiah the Prophet, Part II — De Lamentatione Jeremiae Prophetae
06. Thomas Tallis: The Lamentations of Jeremiah the Prophet, Part II — Ghimel
07. Thomas Tallis: The Lamentations of Jeremiah the Prophet, Part II — Migravit Judas
08. Thomas Tallis: The Lamentations of Jeremiah the Prophet, Part II — Daleth
09. Thomas Tallis: The Lamentations of Jeremiah the Prophet, Part II — Omnes persecutores
10. Thomas Tallis: The Lamentations of Jeremiah the Prophet, Part II — Heth
11. Thomas Tallis: The Lamentations of Jeremiah the Prophet, Part II — Facti sunt
12. Thomas Tallis: Jesu salvator saeculi
13. Thomas Tallis: Deus tuorum militum
14. Thomas Tallis: O nata lux de lumine
15. Thomas Tallis: Jam Christus astra ascenderat
16. Thomas Tallis: Salvator mundi Domine
17. Anon., arr. Edmund Fellowes, British Museum, Add. Mss. 17, 786-91: My Sweet Little Darling
18. Anon., arr. Peter Warlock, Christ Church, Oxford, Mss. 984-8: Guichardo
19. William Corkine, arr. Thurston Dart: What Bootheth Love?
20. Anon., arr. Peter Warlock: Ah, Silly Poor Joas
21. Thomas Whythorne, arr. Peter Warlock: Buy New Broom
22. William Byrd, arr. Fellowes: Elegy on the death of Thomas Tallis, 1585 — Ye Sacred Muses
23. 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
24. Richard Nicholson, arr. Peter Warlock: In a Merry May Morn
25. Robert Parsons, arr. Peter Warlock: Pandolpho
26. William Byrd, arr. Peter le Huray & Thurston Dart: Come, pretty Babe
27. Anon., arr. Peter Warlock: O Death, Rock Me Asleep

Disc 6:
01. John Blow: The Self-Banished
02. John Weldon: The Nightingale
03. Georg Friedrich Händel: from Rodelinda, 1725 — Dove sei
04. Johann Sebastian Bach: from the Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach, 1725 — Bist du bei mir
05. Matthew Locke: Melothsia, 1673 — Voluntary in G for organ
06. Henry Purcell: Elegy on the death of Queen Mary, 1695 — The Queen’s Epicedium
07. Matthew Locke: Melothsia, 1673 — Voluntary in F for organ
08. Pelham Humfrey (or Hemphryes): Harmonia Sacra, Book I, 1688 — A Hymn to God the Father
09. Thomas Morley: The First Book of Canzonets to Two Voices, 1595 — Sweet Nymph, Come to Thy Lover
10. Henry Purcell: Love’s Goddess Birthday Song for Queen Mary, 1692 — Sweetness of Nature
11. Robert Jones: A Musicall Dreame or 4th Book of Airs — Sweet Kate
12. Thomas Morley: Canzonets for Two Voices — Miraculous love’s wounding
13. Thomas Morley: Canzonets for Two Voices — I go before, my darling
14. John Blow: Amphion Anglicus (London, 1600) — If my Celia could persuade
15. John Blow: Amphion Anglicus (London, 1600) — Ah Heav’n! What is it I hear?
16. Richard Deering: Cantica Sacra (London, 1662) — O bone Jesu
17. Richard Deering: Cantica Sacra (London, 1662) — Gaudent in coelis
18. Anon., Fayrfax Ms (er. John Stevens): Ah, My Dear Son

I was delighted to discover that this classic version was made available …

I bought the LP version of the Thomas Tallis portion of this CD set 40 years ago. I was delighted to discover that this classic version was made available again. The Deller Consort still holds as one of the definitive renditions.