Playing time: 23' 16" + 20' 17" = 43' 33" (LP), 43' 50" (CD)
Performers:
[1, exc.] Harmonia mundi "Passerelles"
HMB 590 017 / 18 [CDx2 + book] Les Contre-ténors - Mythes
et Réalités (with a book by Peter Giles)
[1]-[2] Deller Consort [Honor Sheppard (soprano), Christina Clarke
(soprano), Alfred Deller (counter-tenor), Neil Jenkins (tenor),
Maurice Bevan (baritone), Sylvia Cleaver (violin), Philip Jones
(trumpet), Elga Howarth (trumpet), Anna Shuttleworth (cello), Robert
Elliott (organ)], Stour Music Festival Choir (Ashford's girls) &
Stour Festival Chamber Orchestra - Alfred Deller, dir.
[3] Deller Consort [Honor Sheppard (Witch - soprano), Alfred Deller
(Saul - counter-tenor), Maurice Bevan (Samuel - baritone), Anna
Shuttleworth (cello), Robert Elliott (organ)] - Alfred Deller,
dir.
[4] Deller Consort [Honor Sheppard (soprano), Alfred Deller
(counter-tenor), Neil Jenkins (tenor), Maurice Bevan (baritone)],
Stour Music Festival Choir (Ashford's girls) & Stour Festival
Chamber Orchestra - Alfred Deller, dir.
Recording site and date:
Unknown [1968 or prior]
Reviewed in:
Diapason (#-p.): 130-22 (oct. 1968), 337-177 (apr. 1988 (as HMA
190 207 (rec.))
Gramophone (Vol./#-p.):
Fanfare (Vol./#-p.):
Excerpts:
[3] Harmonia mundi HMX 290 261 / 264
[CDx4] Alfred Deller - Portrait of a Legend
Also reissed in compilation Harmonia Mundi HMX 290 8057 / 8059 [CDx3]
Comments:
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Pierre-F. Roberge