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 PLV 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

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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

Johnson (attr.):

15. A Toye (lute solo)

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]-[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:
Diapason (#-p.):
Gramophone (Vol./#-p.):
Fanfare (Vol./#-p.):

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

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