Alfred Deller - HMV Recordings, 1949-1954

HMV Recordings, 1949-1954
Alfred Deller
EMI Classics "Références" 7243 5 65 501 2 4

Contents:

    Johannes Ciconia/Leonardo Giustiani:
  1. O rosa bella

    2. John Bedyngham (attr. earlier to Dunstable)/Leonardo Giustiani:
  2. O rosa bella

    3. John Dowland: Book II
  3. Fine knacks for ladies

    4. John Dowland: Book IV
  4. In darkness let me dwell

    5. John Dowland:
  5. Flow my tears

    6. John Dowland:
  6. Sorrow, sorrow stay

    7. Thomas Campion:
  7. It fells on a summer's day

    8. Philip Rosseter:
  8. What then is love but mourning ?

    9. Thomas Morley: As you like it
  9. Song: It was a lover and his lass

    10. Thomas Morley: Twelfth night
  10. Song: O mistress mine

    11. John Wilson: Measure for measure
  11. Song: Take, O take those lips away

    12. Robert Johnson: The Tempest
  12. Song: Where the bee sucks
  13. Song: Full fathom five

    14. Anon.: Othello
  14. Song: Sing willow, willow, willow

    15. Anon.: Twelfth night
  15. Song: Peg-a-Ramsay

    16. Anon.: Henry V
  16. Callino (Caleno) custure me!

    17. Anon.: The Merry Wives of Windsor
  17. Greensleeves

    18. Henry Purcell: (after Shakespeare, arr. Tippett & Bergmann) The Fairy Queen
  18. Epithalamium (Thrice happy lovers)

    19. Henry Purcell/Norton: Pausanias
  19. Sweeter than roses

    20. Henry Purcell (m) / J. Dryden & N. Lee (t): Oedipus (arr.: Tippett & Bergmann)
  20. Music for a while

    21. Henry Purcell (m) / H. Heveningham (t) (arr. Tippett & Bergmann)
  21. If music be the food of love (1st setting)

    22. Henry Purcell/Tate: The History of King Richard II (after Shakespeare)
  22. Retired from any mortal's sight

    23. Henry Purcell/Congreve: The Old Bachelor
  23. Thus to a ripe consenting maid

    24. Henry Purcell: The Fairy Queen (after Shakespeare)
  24. Hark, how all things

    25. Henry Purcell/Fuller:
  25. An evening hymn

Playing time: 77' 27"

Artists, recording site and date:
Refer to the link in the "Original releases" section below.

Original releases:
[1]-[2] HMV HMS 25 [78 rpm] The History of Music in Sound, vol. 25
[3]-[4] HMV C 3951 [78 r.p.m]
[5], [16] HMV C 4236 ]78 r.p.m]
[6]-[8] HMV C 4178 [78 r.p.m]
[9]-[17] HMV ALP 1265 [LP, 25cm] Shakespeare's songs and lute solo
[18]-[19] HMV C 4044 [78 r.p.m]
[20]-[21] HMV C 3890 [78 r.p.m] Purcell - Music for a while
[22]-[24] HMV C 4247 [78 r.p.m]
[25] HMV C 4144 [78 r.p.m]

Re-editions of original releases
Refer to the link in the "Original releases" section above.

Reviewed in:
Diapason (#-p.):
Gramophone (Vol./#-p.): 74/875-132 (may 1996)
Fanfare (Vol./#-p.):

Comments:
This CD contains most of the pre-1955 recordings but not all; many have been previously re-edited in the LP anthology (EMI HLM 7 7234), but the latter contains material not re-edited this time (i.e. Two Handel 78s: H.M.V. C 4222 "O Thou that tellest - Messiah and Alma de Gran Pompeo - Giulio Cesare" and B 10 682 "He was despised - Messiah).

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Pierre-F. Roberge