The Art of Alfred Deller

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Catalog Number: ALC1018
Label: Alto
Format: CD

Categories: Vocal Music
Budget Periods: 20th Century, Baroque, Classical, Romantic

Composers: Claudio Monteverdi, Georg Frideric Handel, Heinrich Schütz, Henry Purcell, Josquin, Lasso, Morley, Parsons, Passereau, Weelkes, Wilbye, William Byrd
Directors: Alfred Deller, Gustav Leonhardt
Performers: Alfred Deller, Desmond Dupré, Ensemble of Baroque Instruments, Gustav Leonhardt, Leonhardt Baroque Ensemble, Mark Deller, Oriana Concert Choir, Oriana Concert Orchestra, The Deller Consort, Walter Bergman, Wenzinger Consort of Viols of the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis

Available: 5
Price: $8.99
Sale Price: $7.99

Traditional Songs
English Madrigals & Airs
European Vocal Music
Vocal Music of Henry Purcell

Works of: Morley, Byrd, Wilbye, Weelkes, Parsons, Handel, Lasso, Monteverdi, Passereau, Josquin, Schütz, Henry Purcell

Alfred Deller, countertenor, conductor
Desmond Dupré, lute
The Deller Consort
Wenzinger Consort of Viols of the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis
Oriana Concert Choir
Oriana Concert Orchestra
Mark Deller, countertenor
Ensemble of Baroque Instruments
Walter Bergman, harpsichord
Leonhardt Baroque Ensemble
Gustav Leonhardt, harpsichord, director

Alfred Deller's recorded career could only have developed in the way that it did at a label like Vanguard with its founder and owner Seymour Solomon at its helm. Independent record labels, like most small businesses, thrive on a connection between an owner and their obsessions. Seymour Solomon loved baroque and renaissance music at a time when the World's exposure to music of those eras was generally much more narrow than now. Today's landscape reveals concrete superhighways to Hildegard von Bingen where there were once cow paths.

It is quite a feat to distill this monumental body of work into one CD. Luckily, Solomon and Deller already did the work with a double LP, The Art of Alfred Deller, which provided the basis for this selection covering as it does the range of his work.

	Track Listing	Time
	Traditional Songs
1	The Three Ravens	3:23
2	The Cuckoo	1:45
3	Barbara Allen	2:12
4	Hey, Ho, the Wind and the Rain	1:59
5	I Will Give My Love an Apple	1:45
6	The Oak and the Ash	2:23
7	King Henry	2:44
8	Greensleeves	2:18
	English Madrigals & Airs
9	Sumer is icumen in	1:44
10	Morley: Now is the Month of Maying	1:45
11	Byrd: Come, Pretty Babe	1:33
12	Wilbye: Thus Saith My Cloris Bright	1:28
13	Weelkes: To Shorten Winter's Sadness	2:04
14	Parsons: Pandolpho	4:08
15	Morley: In Dew of Roses	2:48
16	Handel: Eternal Source of Light Divine	6:58
	European Vocal Music
17	Lasso: Matona Mia Cara	2:15
18	Monteverdi: Lasciate Mi Morire	2:15
19	Passereau: Il est Bel et Bon	1:22
20	Saracini: Da Te Parto	3:10
21	Josquin: Deploration de Jehan Okeghem	5:13
22	Schütz: Erhöre Mich	2:53
	Vocal Music of Henry Purcell
23	Music for a While (Oedipus)	4:05
24	I Attempt from Love's Sickness to Fly (The Indian Queen)	2:19
25	Sound the Trumpet (Some Ye Sons of Art)	2:44
26	Secrecie's Song (The Fairy Queen)	2:03
27	Mystery's Song (The Fairy Queen)	0:56
28	Fairest Isle (King Arthur)	2:41
29	If Music be the Food of Love (1st version 1692)	2:38

"In songs which demand a simple line, his sweet pure tone is ravishing and the performances are all glorious examples… with the songs played in groups, Deller's lovely tone and natural artistry will give great pleasure…"
Penguin Guide on The Three Ravens

"Alfred Deller's singing is beguiling and timeless. ... Music for a while [is] from a number of songs which exhibit his essential mastery: everything from accuracy of pitching and magical floating phrases to subtlety of colour and expressive resource."
Gramophone