The Complete Vanguard Recordings, Volume 4: Music of Handel Bach and English Renaissance
Compilation by Alfred Deller & The Deller Consort
Released 2008
Tracklist
- CD 1: The Connoisseur's Handel / Handel: 3 Coronation Anthems
- 1Jephtha (Oratorio, 1752), Hwv 70: Air: 'Tis Heaven's All-Ruling Pow'rGeorg Friedrich Händel3:03
- 2Jephtha (Oratorio, 1752), Hwv 70: Quartet: O Spare Your DaughterGeorg Friedrich Händel2:36
- 3Jephtha (Oratorio, 1752), Hwv 70: Air: Laud Her All Ye Virgin TrainGeorg Friedrich Händel3:09
- 4Serse (Opera, 1738, London): Air: Ombra Mai FùGeorg Friedrich Händel4:19
- 5Orlando: Air: Ah! Stigie LarveGeorg Friedrich Händel8:05
- 6L'Allegro, Il Pensoroso Ed Il Moderato, Hwv 55: Air: Let Me WanderGeorg Friedrich Händel2:01
- 7Orlando: Air; Cielo! Se Tu Il ConsentiGeorg Friedrich Händel5:21
- 8Rinaldo: Air: Lascia Ch'Io PiangaGeorg Friedrich Händel4:40
- 9Theodora (Oratorio, 1750), Hwv 68: Air; Kind Heav'n, If Virtue Be Thy CareGeorg Friedrich Händel2:35
- 10Theodora (Oratorio, 1750), Hwv 68: Air; Wide Spread His NameGeorg Friedrich Händel2:33
- 11Theodora (Oratorio, 1750), Hwv 68: Air: Sweet Rose, and Lilly, Flow'Ry FormGeorg Friedrich Händel3:12
- 12Theodora (Oratorio, 1750), Hwv 68: Duet: To Thee Thou Glorious Son of WorthGeorg Friedrich Händel5:16
- 13Coronation Anthems: Zadok the Priest (Andante Maestoso 4/4)Georg Friedrich Händel5:28
- 14Coronation Anthems: The King Shall Rejoice: I. Allegro Moderato, 4/4 / II. Allegro, 3/4 / III. A Tempo Giusto, 4/4 / IV. Allegro Non Presto, 3/4 / V. Allegro Non Presto, 4/4Georg Friedrich Händel2:49
- 15Coronation Anthems: Let Thy Hand Be Strengthened: I. Allegro Moderato, 4/4 / II. Larghetto, 3/4Georg Friedrich Händel17:43
- CD 2: Handel: Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne / Bach: Cantatatas 54 & 170
- 1Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne: Counter-Tenor Solo (Largo): Eternal Source of Light DivineGeorg Friedrich Händel6:56
- 2Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne: Soprano Solo (Andante): Let All the Winged...Georg Friedrich Händel2:59
- 3Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne: Countertenor Solo (Andante): Let Flocks...Georg Friedrich Händel2:25
- 4Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne: Counter-Tenor and Bass Duet: Let Rolling Streams...Georg Friedrich Händel2:47
- 5Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne: Sopranos Duet (Andante): Kind Health DescendsGeorg Friedrich Händel6:04
- 6Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne: Bass Solo (Allegro): Let Envy Then Conceal Her HeadGeorg Friedrich Händel2:26
- 7Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne: Counter-Tenor Solo and Double Chorus (Allegro): United Nations Shall CombineGeorg Friedrich Händel3:19
- 8Cantata No. 170" Vergnügte Ruh' Beliebte Seelenlust": Aria: Vergnügte Ruh'Johann Sebastian Bach6:52
- 9Cantata No. 170" Vergnügte Ruh' Beliebte Seelenlust": Recitative: Die Welt, Das SündenhausJohann Sebastian Bach1:11
- 10Cantata No. 170" Vergnügte Ruh' Beliebte Seelenlust": Aria: Wie JammernJohann Sebastian Bach8:17
- 11Cantata No. 170" Vergnügte Ruh' Beliebte Seelenlust": Recitative: Wer Solte SichJohann Sebastian Bach1:00
- 12Cantata No. 170" Vergnügte Ruh' Beliebte Seelenlust": Aria: Wie Leid Ist Mir Das LebenJohann Sebastian Bach6:00
- 13Mass, in B Minor: Agnus DeiJohann Sebastian Bach9:01
- 14Cantata No. 54" Widerstehe Doch Der Sünde": Aria: WidersteheJohann Sebastian Bach1:07
- 15Cantata No. 54" Widerstehe Doch Der Sünde": Recitative: Die ArtJohann Sebastian Bach3:25
- 16Cantata No. 54" Widerstehe Doch Der Sünde": Aria: Wer Sunde TutJohann Sebastian Bach5:34
- CD 3: Handel: Alexander's Feast (Beginning
- 1Oratorio "Alexander's Feast": Overture: I. Maestoso / II. Allegro Ma Non Troppo / III. AndanteGeorg Friedrich Händel6:46
- 2Oratorio "Alexander's Feast": Recitative (Tenor): 'Twas at the Royal FeastGeorg Friedrich Händel1:25
- 3Oratorio "Alexander's Feast": Air and Chorus (Tenor, Followed by Chorus and Solo): Happy, Happy, HappyGeorg Friedrich Händel5:04
- 4Oratorio "Alexander's Feast": Recitative (Tenor): Timotheus, Plac'd on HighGeorg Friedrich Händel0:35
- 5Oratorio "Alexander's Feast": Accompanied Recitative (Soprano): The Song BeganGeorg Friedrich Händel1:03
- 6Oratorio "Alexander's Feast": Chorus (Andante): The List'Ning CrowdGeorg Friedrich Händel2:42
- 7Oratorio "Alexander's Feast": Air (Soprano, Allegro Ma Non Presto): With Ravish'd EarsGeorg Friedrich Händel4:05
- 8Oratorio "Alexander's Feast": Recitative (Tenor): The Praise of BacchusGeorg Friedrich Händel0:37
- 9Oratorio "Alexander's Feast": Air and Chorus (Bass Followed by Chorus, Andante): Bacchus, Ever FairGeorg Friedrich Händel4:12
- 10Oratorio "Alexander's Feast": Recitative (Tenor): Sooth'd With the SoundGeorg Friedrich Händel0:57
- 11Oratorio "Alexander's Feast": Accompanied Recitative (Soprano, Adagio E Piano): He Chose a Mournful MuseGeorg Friedrich Händel1:28
- 12Oratorio "Alexander's Feast": Air (Soprano, Large E Piano): He Sung DariusGeorg Friedrich Händel3:43
- 13Oratorio "Alexander's Feast": Accompanied Recitative (Soprano): With Downcast LooksGeorg Friedrich Händel1:11
- 14Oratorio "Alexander's Feast": Chorus (Larghetto): Behold DariusGeorg Friedrich Händel3:34
- 15Oratorio "Alexander's Feast": Recitative (Tenor): The Mighty Master Smil'dGeorg Friedrich Händel0:40
- 16Oratorio "Alexander's Feast": Air (Soprano, Largo): Softly Sweet in Lydian MeasuresGeorg Friedrich Händel3:26
- 17Oratorio "Alexander's Feast": Air (Tenor, Andante Allegro): War, He Sung, Is Toil and TroubleGeorg Friedrich Händel5:40
- 18Oratorio "Alexander's Feast": Chorus (Andante): The Many Rend the SkiesGeorg Friedrich Händel3:59
- 19Oratorio "Alexander's Feast": Air (Soprano) And Chorus (Allegro Moderato): The Prince, Unable to ConcealGeorg Friedrich Händel7:46
- 20Oratorio "Alexander's Feast": Chorus Da Capo: The Many Rend the SkiesGeorg Friedrich Händel4:09
- 21Oratorio "Alexander's Feast": Accompanied Recitative (Tenor) And Chorus: Now Strike the Golden Lyre AgainGeorg Friedrich Händel1:34
- 22Oratorio "Alexander's Feast": Chorus (Allegro Ma Non Troppo): Break His Bands of Sleep AsunderGeorg Friedrich Händel1:54
- 23Oratorio "Alexander's Feast": Air (Bass, Andante Allegro): Revenge, RevengeGeorg Friedrich Händel2:03
- 24Oratorio "Alexander's Feast": Aria (Largo): Behold, a Ghastly BandGeorg Friedrich Händel4:52
- CD 4: Handel: Alexander's Feast (Conclusion
- 1Oratorio "Alexander's Feast": Air (Da Capo); Revenge, RevengeGeorg Friedrich Händel2:10
- 2Oratorio "Alexander's Feast": Accompanied Recitative (Tenor): Give the Vengeance DueGeorg Friedrich Händel2:09
- 3Oratorio "Alexander's Feast": Air (Tenor, Allegro): The Princes ApplaudGeorg Friedrich Händel2:29
- 4Oratorio "Alexander's Feast": Air (Soprano) And Chorus (Andante Larghetto): Thais Led the WayGeorg Friedrich Händel5:03
- 5Oratorio "Alexander's Feast": Accompanied Recitative (Tenor) And Chorus: Thus, Long AgoGeorg Friedrich Händel2:54
- 6Oratorio "Alexander's Feast": Chorus: At Last Divine Cecilia CameGeorg Friedrich Händel4:35
- 7Oratorio "Alexander's Feast": Recitative (Tenor and Bass): Let Old Timotheus Yield the PrizeGeorg Friedrich Händel0:34
- 8Oratorio "Alexander's Feast": Chorus and Soloists (Andante - Allegro): Let Old Timotheus Yield the PrizeGeorg Friedrich Händel3:53
- 9Book of Airs, 1597: Air: Can She Excuse My Wrongs?John Dowland4:11
- 10A Plaine and Easie Introduction to Practicall Musicke: Air for Three Viols (instrumental)Thomas Morley1:30
- 11A Book of Ayres...: Air: Of All the Birds That I Do KnowJohn Bartlet2:01
- 12Fitwilliam Virginal Book: Alman for Harpsichord (Set by Gilles Farnaby) (instrumental)Robert Johnson1:16
- 13Book of Airs, 1597: Air: If My Complaints Could Passions MoveJohn Dowland4:26
- 14Pavan for Four Viols (instrumental)John Jenkins5:57
- 15Rosseter's Book of Ayres, 1601: Air: I Care Not for These LadiesThomas Campion1:44
- 16Air for Lute Solo: My Lady Hunsdon's Puffe (instrumental)John Dowland1:03
- 17Air: Pandolpho (Orn. For Lute)Robert Parsons7:23
- 18Fantasia in C for Four Viols (instrumental)John Jenkins4:59
- 19A Pilgrim's Solace: Air: From Silent NightJohn Dowland5:18
- 20Fitwilliam Virginal Book: Variations for Harpsichord on "Up Tails All" (instrumental)Giles Farnaby5:56
- CD 5: Thomas Tallis: The Lamentations of Jeremiah the Prophet, Part I / William Byrd and His Age
- 1The Lamentations of Jeremiah the Prophet, Part I: Incipit Lamentatio Jeremiae ProphetaeThomas Tallis1:11
- 2The Lamentations of Jeremiah the Prophet, Part I: Aleph; Quomodo SedetThomas Tallis2:36
- 3The Lamentations of Jeremiah the Prophet, Part I: BethThomas Tallis0:29
- 4The Lamentations of Jeremiah the Prophet, Part I: Plorans PloravitThomas Tallis4:07
- 5The Lamentations of Jeremiah the Prophet, Part II: De Lamentatione Jeremiae ProphetaeThomas Tallis1:36
- 6The Lamentations of Jeremiah the Prophet, Part II: GhimelThomas Tallis0:59
- 7The Lamentations of Jeremiah the Prophet, Part II: Migravit JudasThomas Tallis1:58
- 8The Lamentations of Jeremiah the Prophet, Part II: DalethThomas Tallis0:32
- 9The Lamentations of Jeremiah the Prophet, Part II: Omnes PersecutoresThomas Tallis3:27
- 10The Lamentations of Jeremiah the Prophet, Part II: HethThomas Tallis0:32
- 11The Lamentations of Jeremiah the Prophet, Part II: Facti SuntThomas Tallis4:44
- 12Hymns for Alternating Plainsong and Polyphony: Jesu Salvator SaeculiThomas Tallis5:15
- 13Hymns for Alternating Plainsong and Polyphony: Deus Tuorum MilitumThomas Tallis4:10
- 14Hymns for Alternating Plainsong and Polyphony: O Nata Lux De LumineThomas Tallis2:09
- 15Hymns for Alternating Plainsong and Polyphony: Jam Christus Astra AscenderatThomas Tallis5:38
- 16Hymns for Alternating Plainsong and Polyphony: Salvator Mundi DomineThomas Tallis5:18
- 17My Sweet Little Darling[anonymous]3:03
- 18Guichardo[anonymous]4:39
- 19What Bootheth Love?William Corkine3:16
- 20Ah, Silly Poor Joas[anonymous]1:48
- 21Buy New BroomThomas Whythorne1:23
- 22Elegy on the Death of Thomas Tallis, 1585: Ye Sacred MusesWilliam Byrd3:51
- 23Psalms, Sonnets, and Songs of Sadness and Piety, Made Into Music of Five Parts, 1588: Lullaby, My Sweet Little BabyWilliam Byrd7:00
- 24In a Merry May MornRichard Nicholson1:25
- 25PandolphoRobert Parsons4:06
- 26Come, Pretty BabeWilliam Byrd1:31
- 27O Death, Rock Me Asleep[anonymous]3:03
- CD 6: Deller's Choice (Selections
- 1The Self-BanishedJohn Blow3:33
- 2The NightingaleJohn Weldon1:36
- 3Rodelinda, 1725: Dove SeiGeorg Friedrich Händel4:14
- 4Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach: Bist Du Bei MirGeorg Friedrich Händel2:58
- 5Melothsia, 1673: Voluntary in G for OrganMatthew Locke1:09
- 6Elegy on the Death of Queen Mary, 1695: The Queen's EpicediumHenry Purcell7:09
- 7Melothsia, 1673: Voluntary in F for OrganMatthew Locke1:32
- 8Harmonia Sacra, Book I, 1688: A Hymn to God the FatherPelham Humfrey3:32
- 9The First Book of Canzonets to Two Voices, 1595: Sweet Nymph, Come to Thy LoverThomas Morley1:40
- 10"Love's Goddess" Birthday Song for Queen Mary, 1692: Sweetness of NatureHenry Purcell3:40
- 11"A Musicall Dreame" or 4th Book of Airs: Sweet KateRobert Jones1:45
- 12Canzonets for Two Voices: Miraculous Love's WoundingThomas Morley2:58
- 13Canzonets for Two Voices: I Go Before, My DarlingThomas Morley1:27
- 14Amphion Anglicus: If My Celia Could PersuadeJohn Blow3:00
- 15Amphion Anglicus: Ah Heav'n! What Is It I Hear?John Blow3:17
- 16Cantica Sacra: O Bone JesuRichard Deering3:10
- 17Cantica Sacra: Gaudent in CoelisRichard Deering1:32
- 18Tudor Carol: Ah, My Dear Son[anonymous]6:08
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Release credits
- conductor [1-16], countertenor vocals [6.4, 5.1-16], performer [1.1-15, 5.17-27, 2.1-16, 3.1-24, 6.1-3, 6.5-18, 4.1-19]
- performer [4.1-19, 5.17-27, 6.1-2, 6.5-18, 2.1-16, 1.1-15, 3.1-24], vocal [1-16]
- soprano vocals [12-16]
- recording [1-16]
- tenor vocals [1-16]
- harpsichord [4.20, 6.3-4]
- bass vocals [1-16]
- baritone vocals [1-16]
- producer [1-16]
- tenor vocals [1-16]






