The Three Ravens

The Three Ravens
Songs of Folk and Minstrelsy out of Elizabethan England
Alfred Deller, Desmond Dupré
Vanguard VRS 479 [LP, mono]
Vanguard PVL 7032 [LP, mono, UK]
Vanguard « Everyman classics » SRV 299 SD [LP, e-stereo]
Vanguard « Everyman classics » CSRV 299 SD [Cassette, e-stereo]
Vanguard « Everyman classics » VSD 299 [LP, e-stereo]
Fontana TFL 6026 [LP, France]

Contents:

    Anon., ca 16th-17th c.:
  1. The Three Ravens
  2. The Cuckoo
  3. How Should I Your True Love Know (Ophelia's song from Hamlet)
  4. Sweet Nightingale
  5. I Will Give My Love an Apple
  6. The Oak and the Ash
  7. Go From My Window (lute solo)
  8. King Henry
  9. Coventry Carol

    10. —
  10. Barbara Allen
  11. Heigh Ho, the Wind and the Rain ("Twelfth Night")
  12. Waly, Waly
  13. Down in Yon Forest
  14. Matthew, Mark, Luke and John

    15. Johnson (attr.):
  15. A Toye (lute solo)

    16. Anon., ca 16th-17th c.:
  16. The Tailor and the Mouse
  17. Greensleaves

Playing time: 38' 28"

Performers:
Alfred Deller (counter-tenor), Desmond Dupré (lute & guitar)

Recording site and date:
Masonic Temple, Brooklyn, New-York, NY, USA [10/1955];
Rel.: 1956

Compilation:
Vanguard (Omega) Classics "Alfred Deller Edition - 5" OVC 8104 [CD, NA] The Three Ravens - Elizabethan Folk and Minstrels Songs
Vanguard (Arcade) Classics "Édition Alfred Deller" 08 5064 71 [CD, Europe] Les Trois Corbeaux - The Three Ravens: Chants traditionnels de Ménestrels et Élizabéthain - Elizabethan Folk and Minstrels Songs

Excerpts:
[1]-[6], [8]-[14], [16]-[17] Musical Concepts MC 193 [CDx7 + CD-ROM] Alfred Deller – The Complete Vanguard Recordings, Volume ONE: Folk Songs and Ballads
[1]-[2], [5]-[6], [8], [10]-[11], [17] Vanguard VSD 729/30 [LP] The Art of Alfred Deller
[11], [17] Vanguard « The Bach Guild » BG-606 [LP, mono NA] Musical Panorama of Shakespeare's England

Reviewed in:
Gramophone (Vol./#-p.): 36/426-256 (Nov 1958 (PVL))

Comments:
Information from LP & CD and Nancy Frudenthal; also from Pascal Charlier (Fontana).
The VSD prefix may be a misprint.

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Pierre-F. Roberge