Alfred Deller Solo

Alfred Deller Solo
« O ravishing delight » Airs anglais du XVIIe & XVIIIe siècle pour contre-ténor solo
Alfred Deller et al.
Harmonia mundi « Deller Recordings » DR 215 [LP]
Harmonia mundi HM 30.708 [LP, Germany]
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
  3. Shall I sue

  4. Thomas Campion
  5. I care not for these ladies

  6. John Dowland
  7. Come heavy sleep

  8. John Bartlett
  9. Of all the birds

  10. John Dowland
  11. I saw my lady weep
  12. Wilt thou unkind

  13. Thomas Campion
  14. The Cypress curtain of the night


  15. Philip Rosseter
  16. What then is love

  17. Francis Pilkington
  18. Rest sweet Nymphs

  19. John Blow
  20. The fair lover and his black mistress
  21. The Self-Banished

  22. Jeremiah Clarke
  23. The glory of the Arcadian groves

  24. John Eccles
  25. Oh! the mighty pow'r of love

  26. Jeremiah Clarke
  27. In her brave offspring

  28. William Croft
  29. My time, o ye Muses

  30. Daniel Purcell
  31. 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.

Compilation:
Harmonia mundi HMC 254/6 [LPx3] In memory of Alfred Deller Airs anglais et italiens
Harmonia mundi HM 40 254/6 [Cass. x3] 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)):

Comments:
Information from LP (HM).

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Pierre-F. Roberge