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This hour, we're diving into the musical tastes of “Dr. Rainbeau,” someone with varied interests in early music. We know of his tastes only through the 1862 publication titled Catalogue of the Extensive Library of Doctor Rainbow. There’s a small problem, however…the good doctor was not a real person, rather an elaborate caricature. The catalogue, published by Messrs. Topsy, Turvy, & Co, was a prank played on organist and antiquary, Edward Rimbault, who was very much alive in 1862, unlike the owners of most auctioned-off collections.

PLAYLIST

Saul / Handel
Philharmonia Baroque Chorale and Orchestra, McGegan
Philharmonia Baroque Productions [Produced] 2020 / PBP-14
George Frideric Handel
Tr.72 Act III Scene 5: O fatal Day! How low the Mighty lie! (David, Chorus) (4:40)

Segment A:

Byrd: Mass for Five Voices
The Gesualdo Six; Owain Park, conductor
Hyperion 2023 / 00602448799784
William Byrd
Mass a 5
Tr.4 - I. Kyrie (1:26)
Tr.5 - IIa. Gloria in excelsis Deo (1:55)
Tr.6 - IIb. Domine Deus, Agnus Dei (3:08)

English madrigals
Tallis Scholars
Gimell 2007 / GIMSE 403
Thomas Morley
Tr.3 Thomas Morley, Phyllis, I fain would die now (5:31)

English madrigals from The Oxford book of English madrigals: "Sing we at pleasure"
Pro Cantione Antiqua
Musical Concepts 2008 / ALC1039
Thomas Bateson
Tr.21 Bateson, Those Sweet Delightful Lillies (2:29)

Parthenia
Alina Rotaru
Dorian Sono Luminus 2016 / DSL-92208
Orlando Gibbons
Tr.17 Gibbons: Fantasia a 4 (5:58)

:59 Midpoint Break Music Bed:

Parthenia
Alina Rotaru
Dorian Sono Luminus 2016 / DSL-92208
Orlando Gibbons
Tr.20 Gibbons: The Queen's command (excerpt)

Segment B:

Dix pseaumes de David
Ludus Modalis, Bruno Boterf
Ramee 2010 / RAM1005
Claude Le Jeune
Tr.6 Psalm 98, "Chantez a Dieu nouveau cantique" (3:28)
Tr.7 Psalm 149, "Chantez a Dieu chanson nouvelle" (3:59)

Le jardin de mélodies: 16th-century French dances & songs
The King's Noyse
Harmonia Mundi 1997 / HMU907194DI
Anonymous
Tr.1 Mon Dieu la belle Entree [France, 16th Century] (4:08)
Pierre Phalese
[Liber Primus Leviorum Carminum]
Tr.6 Almande - Saltarello (1:15)

Featured Release:

Fiori musicali: Organ Masses
Richard Lester, organ
SOMM Recordings 2022 / SOMMCD0661
Girolamo Frescobaldi
Tr.2 Kyrie (2:20)
Tr.15 Messa della Domenica: Ricercar dopo il Credo (3:28)
Tr.24 Messa della Madonna: Recercar con obligo di cantare la quinta parte senza toccarla (4:17)