Album Summary
Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
Thomas Weelkes (1575 - 1623)
John Bartlet (circa 1580 - circa 1620)
Robert Johnson (Renaissance Composer 1) (1500 - circa 1560)
Anonymous, English
William Byrd (Composer) (1543 - 1623)
Pierre Passereau (circa 1480 - circa 1540)
Orlande de Lassus (1532 - 1594)
Luca Marenzio (1553 - 1599)
Carlo Gesualdo (circa 1566 - 1613)
Thomas Morley (circa 1557 - 1602)
Thomas Vautor (circa 1570 - circa 1630)
John Bennet (Composer) (circa 1575-1580 - fl. 1599-1614)
Thomas Tallis (Composer) (circa 1505 - 1585)
Orlando Gibbons (17th cent. Composer) (1583 - 1625)
Robert Jones (Renaissance Composer) (1583 - 1633)
Clément Janequin (circa 1485 - 1558)
Thomas Tomkins (1572 - 1656)
Cipriano de Rore (circa 1515 - 1565)
John Wilbye (1574 - 1638)
Richard Edwards
John Ward (Ren. Composer) (1571 - 1638)
John Sheppard (Composer) (1515 - 1558)
Francis Pilkington (circa 1570 - 1638)
Guillaume Costeley (1530 - 1606)
Josquin Desprez (Composer) (circa 1455 - 1521)
Claudio Monteverdi (1567 - 1643)
Jacques Arcadelt (1505 - 1568)
Notes & Reviews:
Similar to Volume 1, this extensive set of English, French and Italian Madrigals includes recordings that are not subject to the whims of performance practice - these interpretations are timeless, charming and astonishingly virtuosic. Most of this material has been out of print for over a decade, and much of it was never released in the United States. Madrigals from the English masters are a specialty, and these recordings fill a great hole in the world of recorded vocal music. The Deller Consort popularized the madrigal, and even elevated it to an art form. These Vanguard recordings are indispensable.
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Works Details
Morley, Thomas : Now is the month of maying - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Notes: Composition written: By 1595.
- Running Time: 1 min. 48 sec.
- Period Time: Renaissance
- Form: Choral
- Written: by 1595
Morley, Thomas : In dewe of roses, madrigal for 4 voices - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 2 min. 48 sec.
- Period Time: Renaissance
- Written: by 1594
Morley, Thomas : Shoot, false love, I care not, madrigal for 5 voices - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 2 min. 41 sec.
- Period Time: Renaissance
- Written: by 1595
Morley, Thomas : Miraculous love's wounding, madrigal for 2 voices - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 2 min. 27 sec.
- Period Time: Renaissance
- Written: by 1595
Morley, Thomas : Harke; Alleluia cheerely, madrigal for 6 voices - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 2 min. 11 sec.
- Period Time: Renaissance
- Form: Choral
- Written: by 1597
Morley, Thomas : Arise, get up, my deere, madrigal for 3 voices - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 1 min. 53 sec.
- Period Time: Renaissance
- Written: by 1593
Morley, Thomas : Leave, alas, this tormenting, madrigal for 5 voices - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 3 min. 40 sec.
- Period Time: Renaissance
- Written: by 1595
Morley, Thomas : I goe before, my darling, madrigal for 2 voices - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 1 min. 28 sec.
- Period Time: Renaissance
- Written: by 1595
Morley, Thomas : Say, gentle nymphs, madrigal for 4 voices - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 2 min. 40 sec.
- Period Time: Renaissance
- Written: by 1594
Morley, Thomas : God morrow, faye ladies of the may, madrigal for 3 voices - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 2 min. 15 sec.
- Period Time: Renaissance
- Written: by 1593
Morley, Thomas : Aprill is in my mistris face, madrigal for 4 voices - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 1 min. 32 sec.
- Period Time: Renaissance
- Form: Choral
- Written: by 1594
Morley, Thomas : Though Philomela lost hir love, madrigal for 3 voices - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 1 min. 12 sec.
- Period Time: Renaissance
- Written: by 1593
Morley, Thomas : Hard by a cristall fountaine - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 4 min. 34 sec.
- Period Time: Renaissance
- Written: by 1601
Morley, Thomas : Whither awaie so fast?, madrigal for 3 voices - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 2 min. 23 sec.
- Period Time: Renaissance
- Written: by 1593
Morley, Thomas : I follow, loe, the footing, madrigal for 5 voices - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 2 min. 19 sec.
- Period Time: Renaissance
- Written: by 1597
Morley, Thomas : O griefe, even on the bud, madrigal for 5 voices - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 2 min. 7 sec.
- Period Time: Renaissance
- Written: by 1597
Morley, Thomas : When, loe, by breake of morning, madrigal for 2 voices - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 1 min. 54 sec.
- Period Time: Renaissance
- Written: by 1595
Morley, Thomas : Besides a fountain, madrigal for 4 voices - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 2 min. 5 sec.
- Period Time: Renaissance
- Written: by 1594
Morley, Thomas : Work(s) :: Fire! Fire! my heart (no 14, The First Booke of Balletts to Five Voyces) - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 3 min. 59 sec.
- Period Time: Renaissance
Wilbye, John : Thus Saith My Cloris Bright, madrigal - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 1 min. 27 sec.
- Period Time: Renaissance
- Form: Choral
- Written: 1598
Wilbye, John : Happy, O Happy He, Who Not Affecting, madrigal - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 3 min. 33 sec.
- Period Time: Renaissance
Wilbye, John : Ye That Do Live in Pleasures Plenty, madrigal - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 2 min. 50 sec.
- Period Time: Renaissance
Wilbye, John : Ah, Cannot Sighs, Nor Tears, Nor Aught Else Move Thee, madrigal - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 4 min. 17 sec.
- Period Time: Renaissance
- Form: Choral
- Written: 1609
Wilbye, John : Stay, Corydon, Thou Swain, madrigal - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 2 min. 49 sec.
- Period Time: Renaissance
- Written: 1609
Wilbye, John : Draw on sweet night - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 5 min. 52 sec.
- Period Time: Renaissance
- Form: Choral
- Written: 1609
Wilbye, John : Lady, Your Words Do Spite Me, madrigal - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 2 min. 6 sec.
- Period Time: Renaissance
- Form: Choral
- Written: 1598
Wilbye, John : As Fair as Morn, as Fresh as May, madrigal - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 2 min. 6 sec.
- Period Time: Renaissance
Wilbye, John : Weepe, mine eyes - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 5 min. 32 sec.
- Period Time: Renaissance
- Form: Choral
- Written: 1609
Morley, Thomas : Hoe, who comes here?, madrigal for 4 voices - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 2 min. 11 sec.
- Period Time: Renaissance
- Written: by 1594
Weelkes, Thomas : Cease sorrowes now, madrigal for 3 voices - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 3 min. 51 sec.
- Period Time: Renaissance
Vautor, Thomas : Mother, I Will Have A Husband - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 1 min. 47 sec.
- Period Time: Renaissance
Edwards, Richard : In going to my naked bed - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 2 min. 26 sec.
- Period Time: Contemporary
Weelkes, Thomas : To shorten winter's sadness, madrigal for 5 voices - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 2 min. 4 sec.
- Period Time: Renaissance
Weelkes, Thomas : O care wilt thou dispatch mee, madrigal in 2 sections for 5 voices - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 5 min. 44 sec.
- Period Time: Renaissance
- Form: Choral
Bartlet, John : Of All the Birds That I Do Know - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 2 min. 3 sec.
- Period Time: Renaissance
- Written: 1606
Bennet, John : All Creatures Now Are Merry Minded - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 2 min. 13 sec.
- Period Time: Renaissance
Morley, Thomas : Sweet nimphe, come to thy lover, madrigal for 2 voices - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 1 min. 51 sec.
- Period Time: Renaissance
- Written: by 1595
Bennet, John : Weep, O mine eyes (from Madrigals to four voyces) - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 3 min. 15 sec.
- Period Time: Renaissance
- Form: Choral
- Written: 1599
Weelkes, Thomas : The ape, the monkey, madrigal for 3 voices - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 1 min. 31 sec.
- Period Time: Renaissance
Wilbye, John : Oft I have vowed how dearly I did love thee, madrigal (no 20, The Second Set of Madrigals) - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 4 min. 34 sec.
- Period Time: Renaissance
- Form: Choral
- Written: 1609
Weelkes, Thomas : Strike it up tabor, madrigal for 3 voices - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 1 min. 48 sec.
- Period Time: Renaissance
- Form: Choral
Ward, John : Hope of My Heart - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 4 min. 35 sec.
- Period Time: Renaissance
- Form: Choral
Wilbye, John : Sweet Hony Sucking Bees, madrigal - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 4 min. 45 sec.
- Period Time: Renaissance
- Form: Choral
- Written: 1609
Johnson, Robert (I) : Defyled is my name - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 4 min. 35 sec.
- Period Time: Renaissance
Weelkes, Thomas : On the plains Fairy traines, madrigal for 5 voices - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 1 min. 34 sec.
- Period Time: Renaissance
Edwards, Richard : Where Griping Grief the Heart Doth Wound - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 3 min. 45 sec.
- Period Time: Contemporary
Weelkes, Thomas : All at once well met faire ladies, madrigal for 5 voices - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 2 min. 48 sec.
- Period Time: Renaissance
Tallis, Thomas : Like as the doleful dove - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 2 min. 25 sec.
- Period Time: Renaissance
Tallis, Thomas : Work(s) :: The bitter sweet - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 3 min. 24 sec.
- Period Time: Renaissance
Wilbye, John : Flora gave me fairest flowers, madrigal (no 22, The First Set of English Madrigals) - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 1 min. 42 sec.
- Period Time: Renaissance
- Form: Choral
- Written: 1598
Sheppard, John : O happy dames - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 2 min. 28 sec.
- Period Time: Renaissance
Weelkes, Thomas : Young cupid hath proclaimed, madrigal for 4 voices - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 2 min. 3 sec.
- Period Time: Renaissance
Anonymous, English : The Happy Life ("My friends, the thing I smile to see"), song - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 2 min. 21 sec.
Weelkes, Thomas : Thule, the period of cosmographie - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 3 min. 6 sec.
- Period Time: Renaissance
- Form: Choral
Gibbons, Orlando : First Set of Madrigals and Mottets - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Notes: Composition written: United Kingdom.
- Running Time: 2 min. 4 sec.
- Period Time: Renaissance
- Form: Choral
Pilkington, Francis : Rest, Sweet Nymphes - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 3 min. 55 sec.
- Period Time: Baroque
- Form: Vocal
- Written: 1605
Pilkington, Francis : Diaphenia, like the daffdowndilly - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 1 min. 36 sec.
- Period Time: Baroque
Gibbons, Orlando : What is our life, madrigal for 5 voices - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 4 min. 59 sec.
- Period Time: Renaissance
- Form: Choral
Byrd, William : Psalmes, Sonets and Songs - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 2 min. 22 sec.
- Period Time: Renaissance
- Form: Choral
- Written: 1588
Gibbons, Orlando : Ah, deere heart, madrigal for 5 voices - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 2 min. 21 sec.
- Period Time: Renaissance
- Form: Choral
Byrd, William : This sweet and merry month of May, madrigal for 4 voices (SATB) - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 4 min. 30 sec.
- Period Time: Renaissance
- Form: Choral
Gibbons, Orlando : Daintie fine bird, madrigal for 5 voices - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 2 min. 24 sec.
- Period Time: Renaissance
- Form: Choral
Pilkington, Francis : Have I Found Her - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 2 min. 25 sec.
- Period Time: Baroque
- Written: 1613-1614
Pilkington, Francis : O Softly Singing Lute - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 4 min. 19 sec.
- Period Time: Baroque
Pilkington, Francis : Amyntas with his Phyllis Fair - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 1 min. 51 sec.
- Period Time: Baroque
Ward, John : Retire, My Troubled Soul - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 3 min. 36 sec.
- Period Time: Renaissance
Ward, John : Upon a bank of roses - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 2 min. 49 sec.
- Period Time: Renaissance
Ward, John : Out from the Vale - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 3 min. 37 sec.
- Period Time: Renaissance
Anonymous, English : I Smile to See How You Devise, consort song - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 2 min. 18 sec.
- Period Time: Renaissance
Johnson, Robert (I) : Benedicam Domino - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 2 min. 51 sec.
- Period Time: Renaissance
Wilbye, John : Lady, when I behold, madrigal (no 10, The First Set of English Madrigals) - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 4 min. 3 sec.
- Period Time: Renaissance
- Form: Choral
- Written: 1598
Wilbye, John : Adieu, sweet Amaryllis, madrigal (no 12, The First Set of English Madrigals) - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 2 min. 47 sec.
- Period Time: Renaissance
- Form: Choral
- Written: 1609
Wilbye, John : I always beg, yet never am relieved, madrigal (no 16, The First Set of English Madrigals) - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 2 min. 22 sec.
- Period Time: Renaissance
Wilbye, John : Thus love commands that I in vain complain me, madrigal (no 17, The First Set of English Madrigals) - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 2 min. 24 sec.
- Period Time: Renaissance
Wilbye, John : Oft I have vowed how dearly I did love thee, madrigal (no 20, The Second Set of Madrigals) - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 4 min. 34 sec.
- Period Time: Renaissance
- Form: Choral
- Written: 1609
Wilbye, John : Come shepherd, swains, that wont to hear me sing, madrigal (no 1, The Second Set of Madrigals) - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 3 min. 6 sec.
- Period Time: Renaissance
Wilbye, John : The lady Oriana, madrigal - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 2 min. 29 sec.
- Period Time: Renaissance
Jones, Robert (II) : Fair Oriana Seeming to Wink at Folly - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 2 min. 42 sec.
- Period Time: Renaissance
Costeley, Guillaume : Allons gay bergères, noël for 4 voices - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 1 min. 42 sec.
- Period Time: Renaissance
- Written: 1531
Costeley, Guillaume : Mignonne, allons voir si la rose, for 4 voices - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 2 min. 7 sec.
- Period Time: Renaissance
Passereau, Pierre : Il est bel et bon - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 1 min. 22 sec.
- Period Time: Renaissance
- Written: 1534
Clément Janequin (circa 1485 - 1558) : Réveillez vous cueurs endormis "Le chant des oiseaux" - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 5 min. 45 sec.
- Period Time: Renaissance
- Written: circa 1520
Desprez, Josquin : Nymphes des bois/Requiem aeternam/Deploration de la Mort de Jehan Ockeghem, lament for 5 parts - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 5 min. 15 sec.
- Period Time: Renaissance
- Form: Choral
- Written: 1497
Desprez, Josquin : Parfons regretz, song for 5 parts - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 3 min. 9 sec.
- Period Time: Renaissance
Lassus, Orlando de : La nuict froide et sombre (Du Bellay), chanson for 4 voices, B. xii/119 (S. xii/34) - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 3 min. 13 sec.
- Period Time: Renaissance
- Form: Choral
Clément Janequin (circa 1485 - 1558) : Or sus vous dormés trop, chanson for 4 voices ("L'alouette;" "Le chant de l'alouette"), M. 1/5 - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 2 min. 51 sec.
- Period Time: Renaissance
Clément Janequin (circa 1485 - 1558) : Ce moys de may, chanson for 4 voices, M. 1/10 - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Period Time: Renaissance
Clément Janequin (circa 1485 - 1558) : Escoutez tous gentilz, chanson for 5 voices ("La bataille de Marignan;" "La Guerre"), M. 6/234 - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 5 min. 51 sec.
- Period Time: Renaissance
- Form: Choral
Clément Janequin (circa 1485 - 1558) : Work(s) :: Au joly boys - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 1 min. 52 sec.
- Period Time: Renaissance
Lassus, Orlando de : Mon Coeur se recommande (Marot) (Mon Coeur se rend a toi; Qui laboure champ ou vigne), chanson for 5 - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 2 min. 15 sec.
- Period Time: Renaissance
- Form: Choral
Byrd, William : Lullaby - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 6 min. 6 sec.
- Period Time: Renaissance
- Written: 1588
Morley, Thomas : Now is the month of maying - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Notes: Composition written: By 1595.
- Running Time: 1 min. 48 sec.
- Period Time: Renaissance
- Form: Choral
- Written: by 1595
Tomkins, Thomas : When David heard - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Notes: Composition written: By 1622.
- Running Time: 4 min. 51 sec.
- Period Time: Renaissance
- Form: Choral
- Written: by 1622
Monteverdi, Claudio : Altri canti di Marte (Livre 8), a 6 voci con violini - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Ensemble: Baroque String Ensemble
- Running Time: 3 min. 47 sec.
- Period Time: Baroque
- Form: Choral
- Written: circa 1638
Monteverdi, Claudio : Madrigals, Book 8 - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Ensemble: Baroque String Ensemble
- Running Time: 4 min. 42 sec.
- Period Time: Baroque
- Form: Choral
- Written: circa 1638
Monteverdi, Claudio : Madrigals, Book 8 - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Ensemble: Baroque String Ensemble
- Running Time: 9 min. 11 sec.
- Period Time: Baroque
- Form: Choral
- Written: circa 1638
Monteverdi, Claudio : Madrigals, Book 8 :: Part 1. Ni - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Ensemble: Baroque String Ensemble
- Running Time: 1 min. 19 sec.
- Period Time: Baroque
- Form: Choral
- Written: circa 1638
Monteverdi, Claudio : Madrigals, Book 8 :: Part 2. Qu - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Ensemble: Baroque String Ensemble
- Running Time: 1 min. 28 sec.
- Period Time: Baroque
- Form: Choral
- Written: circa 1638
Monteverdi, Claudio : Madrigals, Book 8 :: Part 3. De - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Ensemble: Baroque String Ensemble
- Running Time: 2 min. 33 sec.
- Period Time: Baroque
- Form: Choral
- Written: circa 1638
Monteverdi, Claudio : Madrigals, Book 8 - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Ensemble: Baroque String Ensemble
- Running Time: 3 min. 59 sec.
- Period Time: Baroque
- Form: Choral
- Written: circa 1638
Monteverdi, Claudio : Chi vol haver felice e lieto il core, madrigal for 5 voices (from Book 8), SV 162 - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Ensemble: Baroque String Ensemble
- Running Time: 2 min. 12 sec.
- Period Time: Baroque
- Form: Choral
- Written: circa 1638
Monteverdi, Claudio : Lamento della Ninfa (Canto Amoroso) :: Part 1. Non havea - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Ensemble: Baroque String Ensemble
- Running Time: 1 min. 40 sec.
- Period Time: Baroque
- Form: Choral
- Written: circa 1638
Monteverdi, Claudio : Lamento della Ninfa (Canto Amoroso) :: Part 2. Amor, dice - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Ensemble: Baroque String Ensemble
- Running Time: 3 min. 14 sec.
- Period Time: Baroque
- Form: Choral
- Written: circa 1638
Monteverdi, Claudio : Lamento della Ninfa (Canto Amoroso) :: Part 3. Sí tra sde - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Ensemble: Baroque String Ensemble
- Period Time: Baroque
- Form: Choral
- Written: circa 1638
Monteverdi, Claudio : Madrigals, Book 8 - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Ensemble: Baroque String Ensemble
- Running Time: 6 min. 7 sec.
- Period Time: Baroque
- Form: Choral
- Written: circa 1638
Monteverdi, Claudio : Madrigals, Book 8 - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Ensemble: Baroque String Ensemble
- Running Time: 2 min. 18 sec.
- Period Time: Baroque
- Form: Choral
- Written: circa 1638
Monteverdi, Claudio : Su, su, su, pastorelli vezzosi, madrigal for 2 sopranos & alto (from Book 8), SV 166 - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Ensemble: Baroque String Ensemble
- Running Time: 1 min. 47 sec.
- Period Time: Baroque
- Form: Choral
- Written: circa 1638
Marenzio, Luca : Cedan l'antiche tue chiare vittorie, madrigal for 6 voices (Il secondo libro de madrigali a 6 voci) - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Ensemble: Baroque String Ensemble
- Running Time: 4 min. 42 sec.
- Period Time: Renaissance
Lassus, Orlando de : Matona mia cara, villanelle for 4 voices, S. x/93 - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Ensemble: Baroque String Ensemble
- Running Time: 2 min. 16 sec.
- Period Time: Renaissance
- Form: Choral
Marenzio, Luca : Scaldava il sol di mezzo giorno l'arco, madrigal for 5 voices (Il terzo libro de madrigali a 5 voci) - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Ensemble: Baroque String Ensemble
- Running Time: 2 min. 25 sec.
- Period Time: Renaissance
Marenzio, Luca : Solo e pensoso i piú deserti campi, madrigal for 5 voices (Il nono libro de madrigali a 5 voci) - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Ensemble: Baroque String Ensemble
- Running Time: 5 min. 32 sec.
- Period Time: Renaissance
Marenzio, Luca : Leggiadre ninfe e pastorelli amanti, madrigal for 6 voices (Il quinto libro de madrigali a 6 voci) - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Ensemble: Baroque String Ensemble
- Running Time: 1 min. 45 sec.
- Period Time: Renaissance
Rore, Cipriano de : Anchor che col partire, madrigal - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Ensemble: Baroque String Ensemble
- Running Time: 3 min. 37 sec.
- Period Time: Renaissance
- Form: Choral
- Written: 1547
Arcadelt, Jacques : Il bianco e dolce cigno, madrigal for 4 voices, S. 2/18 - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Ensemble: Baroque String Ensemble
- Running Time: 2 min. 42 sec.
- Period Time: Renaissance
- Form: Choral
- Written: 1538
Monteverdi, Claudio : Incenerite spoglie, avara tomba, madrigal for 5 voices (from Lagrime d'amante al sepolcro dell'amata - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 2 min. 46 sec.
- Period Time: Baroque
- Written: 1614
Monteverdi, Claudio : Ditelo, o fiume e voi ch'udiste, madrigal for 5 voices (from Lagrime d'amante al sepolcro dell'amata - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 1 min. 39 sec.
- Period Time: Baroque
- Written: 1614
Monteverdi, Claudio : Darà la notte il Sol, madrigal for 5 voices (from Lagrime d'amante al sepolcro dell'amata), SV 111/3 - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 3 min. 6 sec.
- Period Time: Baroque
- Written: 1614
Monteverdi, Claudio : Ma te racoglie, o ninfa, madrigal for 5 voices (from Lagrime d'amante al sepolcro dell'amata), SV 11 - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 3 min. 40 sec.
- Period Time: Baroque
- Written: 1614
Monteverdi, Claudio : O chiome d'or, neve gentil del seno, madrigal for 5 voices (from Lagrime d'amante al sepolcro dell'a - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 3 min. 7 sec.
- Period Time: Baroque
- Written: 1614
Monteverdi, Claudio : Dunque amate reliquie, madrigal for 5 voices (from Lagrime d'amante al sepolcro dell'amata), SV 111/ - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 4 min. 33 sec.
- Period Time: Baroque
- Written: 1614
Monteverdi, Claudio : Il sesto libro de madrigali - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 4 min. 3 sec.
- Period Time: Baroque
- Form: Choral
- Written: circa 1614
Monteverdi, Claudio : Lamento d'Arianna (Madrigals Book 6) :: Lasciatemi morire - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 2 min. 13 sec.
- Period Time: Baroque
- Form: Choral
- Written: circa 1614
Monteverdi, Claudio : Lamento d'Arianna (Madrigals Book 6) :: O Teseo, o Teseo mio - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 6 min. 5 sec.
- Period Time: Baroque
- Form: Choral
- Written: circa 1614
Monteverdi, Claudio : Lamento d'Arianna (Madrigals Book 6) :: Dove, dov'è la fede - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 3 min. 29 sec.
- Period Time: Baroque
- Form: Choral
- Written: circa 1614
Monteverdi, Claudio : Lamento d'Arianna (Madrigals Book 6) :: Ahi che non pur rispon - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 4 min. 29 sec.
- Period Time: Baroque
- Form: Choral
- Written: circa 1614
Monteverdi, Claudio : Il sesto libro de madrigali - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 6 min. 12 sec.
- Period Time: Baroque
- Form: Choral
- Written: circa 1614
Monteverdi, Claudio : Baci soavi e cari, madrigal for 5 voices (from Book 1), SV 27 - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 4 min. sec.
- Period Time: Baroque
- Form: Choral
- Written: circa 1587
Monteverdi, Claudio : Ecco mormorar l'onde (Libro 2) - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 4 min. 10 sec.
- Period Time: Baroque
- Form: Choral
- Written: circa 1590
Monteverdi, Claudio : A un giro sol de' bell'occhi lucenti, madrigal for 5 voices (from Book 4), SV 84 - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 3 min. 7 sec.
- Period Time: Baroque
- Form: Choral
- Written: circa 1603
Monteverdi, Claudio : Non Piu Guerra (Libro 4) - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 2 min. 33 sec.
- Period Time: Baroque
- Form: Choral
- Written: circa 1603
Monteverdi, Claudio : Sfogava Con Le Stelle (Libro 4) - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 3 min. 29 sec.
- Period Time: Baroque
- Form: Choral
- Written: circa 1603
Gesualdo, Carlo : Beltà poiché t'assenti (Sesto Libro - Partitura delli Sei Libri de' Madrigali à cinque voci. Genova, - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 4 min. 4 sec.
- Period Time: Renaissance
- Form: Choral
- Written: 1611
Gesualdo, Carlo : Ecco, morirò dunque, madrigal for 5 voices (Book 4), W. 4/59 - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 4 min. 33 sec.
- Period Time: Renaissance
- Form: Choral
- Written: 1596
Gesualdo, Carlo : Moro, lasso, al mio duolo - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 4 min. 2 sec.
- Period Time: Renaissance
- Form: Choral
- Written: 1611

























