Baroque Anthology for Counter-tenor Vol 2

Volume II - Germany and England

Charles Brett - editor

Editor: Edited by Charles Brett; Engraved by Ashley Harries

This anthology comprises twenty songs, five each from Italy, France, Germany and England. A variety of composers is represented, from great masters, like Bach, Monteverdi and Purcell, to many lesser-known composers of the Baroque period - Humfrey, Lambert, Gilles, Kindermann and others. All are presented in new editions, with freshly composed realisations of the continuo. The songs are varied in difficulty, and should appeal to many counter-tenors from students to professionals.

• Was ist unser Lebensstand? (Johann Erasmus Kindermann)
• Komm, Seele, Jesu Leiden (Johann Wolfgang Franck)
• O angenehme Nacht (Johann Wolfgang Franck)
• Komm, süsser Tod (Johann Sebastian Bach)
• Jesus, unser Trost und Leben (Johann Sebastian Bach)
• In the black, dismal dungeon of despair (Henry Purcell)
• Sabina has a thousand charms ( John Blow)
• Sleep downy sleep (Pelham Humfrey)
• Be welcome then, great Sir (Henry Purcell)
• Young Coridon and Phillis (Jeremiah Clarke)