Baroque Anthology for Counter-tenor Volume 1

Volume I - Italy and France

Charles Brett - editor

Editor: Charles Brett; engraved by Ashley Harries

for counter-tenor with realised continuo

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.

• Dolcissimo sospiro (Giulio Caccini)
• Sfogava con le stelle (Giulio Caccini)
• Ego flos campi (Claudio Monteverdi)
• Currite populi (Claudio Monteverdi)
• O quam tu pulchra es (Alessandro Grandi)
• Objet dont les charmes si doux ( Antoine Boësset)
• Ombre de mon amant (Michel Lambert)
• Plainte sur la mort de Michel Lambert (Dubuisson)
• Unissez beauté trop sévère (Louis-Nicolas Clérambault)
• Diligam te, Domine (Jean Gilles)