Henry Purcell: Music for a while - The fatal hour

Henry Purcell

Music for a while / The fatal hour

Alfred Deller
Vanguard "Top Rank" TR 5008 (45rpm, 17cm, U.K.)

Contents:

Henry Purcell (m) /J. Dryden & N. Lee (t): Oedipus (arr.: Tippett & Bergmann)

1. Song: Music for a while

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Henry Purcell

2. Song (1v): The fatal hour came apace

Playing time: ??' ??"

Performers:
Alfred Deller (countertenor), Walter Bergman (harpsichord)

Recording site and date:
[1] No. 3 Studio, Abbey Road, London, UK [03/1949]
[2] Unknown [ca 1954]

Compilation:
Vanguard "The Bach Guild" BG 570 / 71 [LPx2, mono] Homage to Purcell

Reviewed in:
Diapason (#-p.):
Gramophone (Vol./#-p.):
Fanfare (Vol./#-p.):

Comments:
This is a rather strange and unique recording. In the compilation section, I assumed that the statement made by Alan Howlett in the discography published in "Alfred Deller, A Singularity of a Voice" was correct: "most Deller/Bergman discs (i.e. early HMV 78rpm) have been remastered for LPs and appear on Vanguard Homage to Henry Purcell; "The fatal hour came apace", was never released by HMV.

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