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Countertenor - A Collection of His Early Recordings
Artist:
Format:
Compact Disc (Audio)
No of Discs:
5
Availability:
Available
Release Date:
28-10-2013
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Label:
Packaging:
Box Set
Catalog Number:
600117
Description
The English singer Alfred Deller is still thought of as the first truly great exponent of the art of the countertenor. Deller left behind a large number of excellent recordings, from folksongs, English baroque songs and partsongs up to and including the operatic repertoire. This 5-CD compilation presents music from the first ten years of his career, 1949 until 1959.
This box set includes music by Purcell, Dowland, Campion, and other significant 16th and 17th century English composers, as well as Shakespeare settings, drinking songs, sacred music by Bach and Buxtehude, and folk songs arranged by Ralph Vaughan Williams. Deller was also in great demand as a singer of the castrato roles in Handel operas, and so the collection also features excerpts from "Sosarme" in which Deller sings the title role.
Personnel: Alfred Deller (countertenor), Desmond Dupré (guitar and lute), The St Anthony Singers, L'Ensemble Orchestral de L'Oiseau-Lyre, Sir Anthony Lewis (conductor), The Deller Consort and others
Tracks
- Name
- Fine Knacks for Ladies - Alfred Deller
- In Darkness Let Me Dwell - Alfred Deller
- Flow My Tears - Alfred Deller
- Sorrow, Sorrow Stay - Alfred Deller
- Epithalamium - Alfred Deller
- Sweeter Than Roses - Alfred Deller
- Music for a While - Alfred Deller
- If Music Be the Food of Love - Alfred Deller
- Retired from Any Mortal's Sight - Alfred Deller
- Thus to a Ripe Consenting Maid - Alfred Deller
- Hark, How All Things - Alfred Deller
- An Evening Hymn - Alfred Deller
- It Was a Lover and His Lass - Alfred Deller
- O Mistress Mine - Alfred Deller
- Take, O Take Those Lips Away - Alfred Deller
- Where the Bee Sucks - Alfred Deller
- Full Fathom Five - Alfred Deller
- Sing, Wilow, Willow, Willow - Alfred Deller/Various performers
- Peg-a-ramsay - Alfred Deller/Various performers
- Caleno Custure Me - Alfred Deller/Various performers
- Greensleeves - Alfred Deller/Various performers
- Et Misercordia - Alfred Deller/Various performers
- Esurientes Implevit Bonis - Alfred Deller/Various performers
- Jubilate Domino - Alfred Deller/Various performers
- Miserere My Maker - Alfred Deller/Desmond Dupre
- Never Weather-beaten Sail - Alfred Deller
- Most Sweet and Pleasing Are Thy Ways, O God - Alfred Deller
- Author of Light - Alfred Deller
- To Music Bent - Alfred Deller
- Come, Ye Sons of Art, Away, Z323 - Alfred Deller/Various performers
- An Acre of Land - The Deller Consort
- A Farmer's Son So Sweet - The Deller Consort
- The Lover's Ghost - The Deller Consort
- The Turtle Dove - The Deller Consort
- John Dory - The Deller Consort
- Greensleeves - The Deller Consort
- The Jolly Ploughboy - The Deller Consort
- Wassail Song - The Deller Consort
- Down By the Riverside - The Deller Consort
- Bushes and Briars - The Deller Consort
- Just As the Tide Was Flowing - The Deller Consort
- Ca' the Yowes - The Deller Consort
- My Boy Billy - The Deller Consort
- The Spring Time of the Year - The Deller Consort
- Ward the Pirate - The Deller Consort
- The Painful Plough - The Deller Consort
- The Dark-eyed Sailor - The Deller Consort
- The Cuckoo and the Nightingale - The Deller Consort
- Loch - The Deller Consort
- Man Is for the Woman Made - The Deller Consort
- Sir Walter - The Deller Consort
- To Thee and Not to the Maid - The Deller Consort
- Chiding Catch (Fie, Nay) - The Deller Consort
- Once, Twice, Thrice - The Deller Consort
- When Cock Begins to Crow - The Deller Consort
- An Epitaph: Under This Stone - The Deller Consort
- An Ape, a Lion, a Foz and an Ass - The Deller Consort
- Patriotic Song: True Englishmen - The Deller Consort
- T'was You, Sir - The Deller Consort
- Had She Not Care Enough - The Deller Consort
- Young Anthony - The Deller Consort
- Amo, Amas, I Love a Lass - The Deller Consort
- Ah, Robin - The Deller Consort
- Bess Black - The Deller Consort
- I Am Athirst - The Deller Consort
- Wine Does Wonder - The Deller Consort
- Hoyda, Jolly Rutterkin - The Deller Consort
- Troll the Bowl - The Deller Consort
- Fair and Ugly, False and True - The Deller Consort
- We Be Soldiers Three - The Deller Consort
- Lure, Falconers, Lure! - The Deller Consort
- Sing Fair Clorinda - The Deller Consort
- In the Merry Month of May - The Deller Consort
- L'ape E La Serpe - The Deller Consort
- Sosarme, Re Di Media, HWV30 - Alfred Deller/Various performers
- Sosarme, Re Di Media, HWV30 - Alfred Deller/Various performers
- Sosarme, Re Di Media, HWV30 - Alfred Deller/Various performers
- Sosarme, Re Di Media, HWV30 - Alfred Deller/Various performers
- Sosarme, Re Di Media, HWV30 - Alfred Deller/Various performers
- Sosarme, Re Di Media, HWV30 - Alfred Deller/Various performers
- Sosarme, Re Di Media, HWV30 - Alfred Deller/Various performers
- Sosarme, Re Di Media, HWV30 - Alfred Deller/Various performers
- Sosarme, Re Di Media, HWV30 - Alfred Deller/Various performers
- Sosarme, Re Di Media, HWV30 - Alfred Deller/Various performers
- Sosarme, Re Di Media, HWV30 - Alfred Deller/Various performers
- Sosarme, Re Di Media, HWV30 - Alfred Deller/Various performers
- Sosarme, Re Di Media, HWV30 - Alfred Deller/Various performers
- Sosarme, Re Di Media, HWV30 - Alfred Deller/Various performers
- Sosarme, Re Di Media, HWV30 - Alfred Deller/Various performers