Henry Purcell - Te Deum & Jubilate Deo

Henry Purcell
Te Deum & Jubilate Deo
Stour Music Festival Choir (Ashford's girls) & Stour Festival Chamber Orchestra - Alfred Deller, dir.
Harmonia mundi "Deller Recordings" DR 207 [LP]
Harmonia mundi DR 207 / HM 207 [LP / sleeve]
Harmonia mundi HM 207 [LP]
Harmonia mundi HM 40 207 [Cass.]
RCA "Victrola" VICS-1407 [LP]
Harmonia mundi (Ariola) HM 30.703 [LP]
BASF 2029 366 [LP]
Harmonia mundi "Musique d'Abord" HMA 43 207 [Cass.]
Harmonia mundi "Musique d'Abord" HMA 190 207 [CD]

Contents:

    Henry Purcell:
  1. Te Deum in D major (Z 232, 1694)
  2. Jubilate Deo in D major (Z 232, 1694)

  3. ----
  4. In guilty night (Saul and the Witch of Endor) (Z 134, 1693)
  5. Man that is born of a woman (Funeral Sentences) (Z 27, ?1680-82)

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]

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Pierre-F. Roberge