English, French & Italian Madrigals
Alfred Deller (with Consort)
135 Madrigals by Thomas Morley; John Wilbye; Thomas Weelkes; Robert Johnson; John Shepherd; Francis Pilkington; Orlando Gibbons; William Byrd; Josquin Desprez; Guillaume Costeley; Clément Janequin; Claudio Monteverdi; Luca Marenzio; Carlo Gesualdo (& others)
Disc: 1
1. Now is the month of maying, madrigal for 5 voices
2. In dewe of roses, madrigal for 4 voices
3. Shoot, false love, I care not, madrigal for 5 voices
4. Miraculous love’s wounding, madrigal for 2 voices
5. Harke; Alleluia cheerely, madrigal for 6 voices
6. Arise, get up, my deere, madrigal for 3 voices
7. Leave, alas, this tormenting, madrigal for 5 voices
8. I goe before, my darling, madrigal for 2 voices
9. Say, gentle nymphs, madrigal for 4 voices
10. God morrow, faye ladies of the may, madrigal for 3 voices
11. Aprill is in my mistris face, madrigal for 4 voices
12. Though Philomela lost hir love, madrigal for 3 voices
13. Hard by a cristall fountaine, madrigal for 6 voices
14. Whither awaie so fast?, madrigal for 3 voices
15. I follow, loe, the footing, madrigal for 5 voices
16. O griefe, even on the bud, madrigal for 5 voices
17. When, loe, by breake of morning, madrigal for 2 voices
18. Besides a fountain, madrigal for 4 voices
19. Work(s): Fire! Fire! my heart (No. 14, The First Booke of Balletts to Five Voyces)
20. Thus Saith My Cloris Bright, madrigal
21. Happy, O Happy He, Who Not Affecting, madrigal
22. Ye That Do Live in Pleasures Plenty, madrigal
23. Ah, Cannot Sighs, Nor Tears, Nor Aught Else Move Thee, madrigal
24. Stay, Corydon, Thou Swain, madrigal
25. Draw On, Sweet Night, Best Friend unto Those Cares, madrigal
26. Lady, Your Words Do Spite Me, madrigal
27. As Fair as Morn, as Fresh as May, madrigal
28. Weep, Weep, Mine Eyes, My Heart Can Take No Rest, madrigal
Disc: 2
1. Hoe, who comes here?, madrigal for 4 voices
2. Cease sorrowes now, madrigal for 3 voices
3. Mother, I Will Have A Husband
4. In going to my naked bed
5. To shorten winter’s sadness, madrigal for 5 voices
6. O care wilt thou dispatch mee, madrigal in 2 sections for 5 voices
7. Of All the Birds That I Do Know
8. All Creatures Now Are Merry Minded
9. Sweet nimphe, come to thy lover, madrigal for 2 voices
10. Weep, O mine Eyes (from Madrigals to four voyces)
11. Oft I have vowed how dearly I did love thee, madrigal (No. 20, The Second Set of Madrigals)
12. Strike it up tabor, madrigal for 3 voices
13. Hope of My Heart
14. Sweet Hony Sucking Bees, madrigal
15. Defyled is my name
16. On the plains Fairy traines, madrigal for 5 voices
17. Where Griping Grief the Heart Doth Wound
18. All at once well met faire ladies, madrigal for 5 voices
19. Like as the doleful dove, partsong for 4 voices
20. Work(s): The bitter sweet
21. Flora gave me fairest flowers, madrigal (No. 22, The First Set of English Madrigals)
22. O happy dames
23. Young cupid hath proclaimed, madrigal for 4 voices
24. The Happy Life (‘My friends, the thing I smile to see’), song
25. Thule the period of cosmographie, madrigal in 2 sections for 6 voices
Disc: 3
1. The silver swanne, madrigal for 5 voices
2. Rest, Sweet Nymphes
3. Diaphenia
4. What is our life, madrigal for 5 voices
5. Though Amaryllis dance in green, madrigal for 5 voices (SSATB)
6. Ah, deere heart, madrigal for 5 voices
7. This sweet and merry month of May, madrigal for 4 voices (SATB)
8. Daintie fine bird, madrigal for 5 voices
9. Have I Found Her
10. O Softly Singing Lute
11. Amyntas with his Phyllis Fair
12. Retire, My Troubled Soul
13. Upon a bank of roses
14. Out from the Vale
15. I Smile to See How You Devise, consort song
16. Benedicam Domino
17. Lady, when I behold, madrigal (No. 10, The First Set of English Madrigals)
18. Adieu, sweet Amaryllis, madrigal (No. 12, The First Set of English Madrigals)
19. I always beg, yet never am relieved, madrigal (No. 16, The First Set of English Madrigals)
20. Thus love commands that I in vain complain me, madrigal (No. 17, The First Set of English Madrigals)
21. Oft I have vowed how dearly I did love thee, madrigal (No. 20, The Second Set of Madrigals)
22. Come shepherd, swains, that wont to hear me sing, madrigal (No. 1, The Second Set of Madrigals)
23. The lady Oriana, madrigal
24. Fair Oriana Seeming to Wink at Folly
Disc: 4
1. Mignonne, allons voir si la rose, for 4 voices
2. Il est bel et bon, commere, mon mary (Chansons musicales, Paris 1534)
3. Nymphes des bois/Requiem aeternam/Deploration de la Mort de Jehan Ockeghem, lament for 5 parts
4. Parfons regretz, song for 5 parts
5. La nuict froide et somber (Du Bellay), chanson for 4 voices, B. xii/119 (S. xii/34)
6. Ce moys de may, chanson for 4 voices, M. 1/10
7. Escoutez tous gentilz, chanson for 5 voices (‘La bataille de Marignan;’ ‘La Guerre’), M. 6/234
8. Work(s): Au joly boys
9. Mon Coeur se recommande (Marot) (Mon Coeur se rend a toi; Qui laboure champ ou vigne), chanson for 5 voices, B. xiii/15 (S. xiv/15)
10. Lullaby, my sweet little baby, madrigal for 5 voices (SSATB) & viols
11. Now is the month of maying, madrigal for 5 voices
12. When David Heard That Absalom Was Slain, for 5 voices
Disc: 5
1. Altri canti di Marte, madrigal for 6 voices and 2 violins (from Book 8), SV 155
2. Altri canti di Marte, madrigal for 6 voices and 2 violins (from Book 8), SV 155
3. Vago augelletto, che cantando vai, madrigal for 7 voices, 2 violins & continuo (from Book 8), SV 156
4. Mentre vaga Angioletta ogn’anima gentil cantando alletta, madrigal for 2 tenors (from Book 8), SV 157
5. Ninfa che scalza il piede, madrigal in 3 sections for 2 & 3 voices (from Book 8), SV 160: Part 1. Ninfa che scalza il piede e sciolto
6. Ninfa che scalza il piede, madrigal in 3 sections for 2 & 3 voices (from Book 8), SV 160: Part 2. Qui deh meco t’arresta, ove di fior
7. Ninfa che scalza il piede, madrigal in 3 sections for 2 & 3 voices (from Book 8), SV 160: Part 3. Dell’usate mie corde al suon potrai
8. Dolcissimo uscignolo, madrigal for 5 voices (from Book 8), SV 161
9. Chi vol haver felice e lieto il core, madrigal for 5 voices (from Book 8), SV 162
10. Lamento Della Ninfa, madrigal in 3 sections for 1-4 voices (from Book 8), SV 163: Part 1. Non havea Febio ancora
11. Lamento Della Ninfa, madrigal in 3 sections for 1-4 voices (from Book 8), SV 163: Part 2. Amor, dicea
12. Non partir, ritrosetta, madrigal for 2 altos & bass (from Book 8), SV 165
13. Su, su, su, pastorelli vezzosi, madrigal for 2 sopranos & alto (from Book 8), SV 166
14. Cedan l’antiche tue chiare vittorie, madrigal for 6 voices (Il secondo libro de madrigali a 6 voci)
15. Matona mia cara, villanelle for 4 voices, S. x/93
16. Scaldava il sol di mezzo giorno l’arco, madrigal for 5 voices (Il terzo libro de madrigali a 5 voci)
17. Leggiadre ninfe e pastorelli amanti, madrigal for 6 voices (Il quinto libro de madrigali a 6 voci)
18. Anchor che col partire, madrigal
19. Il bianco e dolce cigno, madrigal for 4 voices, S. 2/18
Disc: 6
1. Incenerite spoglie, avara tomba, madrigal for 5 voices (from Lagrime d’amante al sepolcro dell’amata), SV 111/1
2. Ditelo, o fiume e voi ch’udiste, madrigal for 5 voices (from Lagrime d’amante al sepolcro dell’amata), SV 111/2
3. Ma te racoglie, o ninfa, madrigal for 5 voices (from Lagrime d’amante al sepolcro dell’amata), SV 111/4
4. O chiome d’or, neve gentil del seno, madrigal for 5 voices (from Lagrime d’amante al sepolcro dell’amata), SV 111/5
5. Dunque amate reliquie, madrigal for 5 voices (from Lagrime d’amante al sepolcro dell’amata), SV 111/6
6. Zefiro torna e’l bel tempo rimena, madrigal for 5 voices (from Book 6), SV 108
7. Lamento d’Arianna, madrigal in 4 sections for 5 voices (from Book 6), SV 107: Lasciatemi morire
8. Lamento d’Arianna, madrigal in 4 sections for 5 voices (from Book 6), SV 107: O Teseo, o Teseo mio
9. Lamento d’Arianna, madrigal in 4 sections for 5 voices (from Book 6), SV 107: Ahi che non pur risponde
10. Baci soavi e cari, madrigal for 5 voices (from Book 1), SV 27
11. Ecco mormorar l’onde, madrigal for 5 voices (from Book 2), SV 51
12. A un giro sol de’ bell’occhi lucenti, madrigal for 5 voices (from Book 4), SV 84
13. Sfogava con le stelle un infermo d’amore, madrigal for 5 voices (from Book 4), SV 78
14. Moro, lasso, al mio duolo, madrigal for 5 voices (Book 6), W. 6/74