Alfred Deller

Alfred Deller (countertenor)
Monteverdi - Bach - Purcell
Alfred Deller
INA (Wotre) "Mémoire Vive" 262004 [CD]
INA (Musidisc) "Mémoire Vive" 24712-2 [CD]
INA (Abeille) "Mémoire Vive" IMV004 [CD]

Content:

    John Dowland
  1. I saw my lady weep
  2. Shall I sue
  3. Flow not so fast

    4. Robert Johnson
  4. Care-charming sleep

    5. Giovanni Pierluigi Palestrina
  5. Ave Verum

    6. Claudio Monteverdi
    Published in Sacred Monodies and Motets, Venice, 1625
  6. Currite populi (sv297)
  8. Salve Regina (sv327)

    9. Alessandro Grandi
  9. O Quam tu pulchra es

    10. Johann-Sebastian Bach
  10. Bist du bei mir, BWV 508

    11. Henry Purcell
  11. If music be the food of love
  12. Since from my dear Astrea's sight
  13. O lead me to some peaceful gloom
  14. Crown the altar
  15. Beauty thou scene of love
  16. Music for a while
  17. O solitude, my sweetest choice

Playing time: 59' 57"

Performers:
Alfred Deller (counter-tenor), Robert Spencer (lute), Desmond Dupré (guitar), Harold Lester )harpsichord, organ)

Recording site and date:
[1]-[3] Église des Blancs-Manteaux, Paris [06/1978]
[4]-[8], [10]-[12] Salle Gaveau, Paris [02/1977]
[9], [14]-[15] Château de Roquebrune (Festival de Menton) [08/1965]
[13] Église Saint-Séverin (Festival estival de Paris) [09/1966]
[16] Église des Blancs-Manteaux, Paris [04/1979];
Rel.: 1992 (Wotre)

Excerpts:
[5] INA (Wotre) "Mémoire Vive" 262011 [CD] INA - Disque catalogue sampler (1994)

Reviewed in:
Diapason (#-p.): 384-156 (July/August 1992)
Gramophone (Vol./#-p.):
Fanfare (Vol./#-p.):
Goldberg (#-p.):

Comments:
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Pierre-F. Roberge