Alfred Deller Solo

Alfred Deller Solo
"O ravishing delight" Airs anglais du XVIIe & XVIIIe siècle pour contre-tenor solo
Alfred Deller
Harmonia mundi HM 30.708 [LP]
Harmonia mundi "Deller Recordings" DR 215 [LP]
Harmonia mundi HM 215 / DR 215 [Sleeve/LP]
Harmonia mundi "Deller Recordings" HMD 215 [LP]
Harmonia mundi HMU 215 [LP]
RCA "Victrola" VICS 1492 [LP]

Contents:

    Anon., 17th c.:
  1. Miserere my Maker

    2. John Dowland:
  2. Shall I sue

    3. Thomas Campion:
  3. I care not for these ladies

    4. John Dowland:
  4. Come heavy sleep

    5. John Bartlett:
  5. Of all the birds

    6. John Dowland:
  6. I saw my lady weep
  7. Wilt thou unkind

    8. Thomas Campion:
  8. The Cypress curtain of the night

    9. ----
    Philip Rosseter:
  9. What then is love

    10. Francis Pilkington:
  10. Rest sweet Nymphs

    11. John Blow:
  11. The fair lover and his black mistress
  12. The Self-Banished

    13. Jeremiah Clarke:
  13. The glory of the Arcadian groves

    14. John Eccles:
  14. Oh! the mighty pow'r of love

    15. Jeremiah Clarke:
  15. In her brave offspring

    16. William Croft:
  16. My time, o ye Muses

    17. Daniel Purcell:
  17. O Ravishing Delight !

Playing time: 26' 10" + 24' 26" = 50' 36"

Performers:
Alfred Deller (counter-tenor), Desmond Dupré (lute and viola di gamba), David Munrow (recorder), Richard Lee (recorder), Robert Elliott (harpsichord)

Recording site and date:
Church of All Saints, Boughton Aluph, UK [1969 or prior];
Rel.: 1969 or prior.

Compilation:
Harmonia mundi HMC 254/6 [LP] In memory of Alfred Deller Airs anglais et italiens
Harmonia mundi HM 40 254/6 [Cass.] In memory of Alfred Deller Airs anglais et italiens
Harmonia mundi HM 90 215 [CD] Alfred Deller - Airs Anglais
Harmonia mundi HMX 290 836/8 [CDx3] Inoubliable Alfred Deller - A Portrait

Excerpts:
[1]-[8] Harmonia mundi HM 260 La Renaissance en Angleterre. Les plus beaux enregistrements du Deller Consort
[1]-[8] Harmonia mundi HM 40 260 La Renaissance en Angleterre. Les plus beaux enregistrements du Deller Consort
[2]-[3], [5], [9], [12], [13] Harmonia mundi HMX 290 261 / 264 [CDx4] Alfred Deller - Portrait of a Legend [6], [12], [16] Harmonia mundi "Passerelles" HMB 590 017 / 18 [CDx2 + book] Les Contre-ténors - Mythes et Réalités (with a book by Peter Giles)

Reviewed in:
Diapason (#-p.): 140-36 (oct. 1969)
Gramophone (Vol./#-p.): 55/657-1455 (feb. 1978 (as HMU 215))
Fanfare (Vol./#-p.):

Comments:
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Pierre-F. Roberge