Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625): Vocal & Instrumental Music

00:00 Prayer To Hezekiah 01:06 Behold Thou Hast Made My Days 07:13 Pavan 08:45 The Secret Sins 13:17 O Lord In Thy Wrath 16:54 Great Kings Of God 22:57 Song Of Moses 25:04 Ah, Dear, Heart! 27:39 Dainty Fine Bird 30:40 In Nomine a 5 35:55 The Silver Swan 37:49 Fantasy a 6 41:41 What Is Our Life The Deller Consort Honor Sheppard, Suzanne Green: sopranos Alfred Deller, Mark Deller: countertenors John Buttrey: tenor / Maurice Bevan: baritone The Jaye Consort of Viols Elizabeth Baines, Francis Baines: soprano viol John Isaacs, Peter Vel: tenor viol Dietrich Kessler, Jane Kyan: bass viol Alfred Deller, director Orlando Gibbons, the tenth child of William and Mary Gibbons, was born at Oxford in 1583 and baptised there in St. Martin’s Church on Christmas Day. His father was a musician, having been engaged as Town Wayte - an official post as singer - at Cambridge, to which town he returned from Oxford after the birth of his last son. In 1596, Orlando entered King’s College Choir at Cambridge at the age of 12, an