Alfred Deller - Portrait d'une voix

Alfred Deller
Portrait d'une voix – Portrait of a voice – Porträt einer Stimme
Alfred Deller et al.
Harmonia mundi HMD 9909018 [DVD + CD]

Content:

    DVD
    Alfed Deller sings in public – captations en public
    Documentary-interview interspersed with the following interpretations:

    Thomas Campion
  1. Shall I come sweet love to thee?

    2. Philip Rosseter
  2. What then is love but mourning?

    3. Anon.
  3. Have you seen the white lilly grow?

    4. Thomas Morley
  4. I go before my darling

    5. Henry Purcell
  5. From rosy bow'rs

    6. CD
    Alfed Deller, Solo Songs

    Anon.: Twelfth night, V, 1
  6. The Wind and the Rain (When that I was)

    7. Thomas Morley: As you like it, V, 3
  7. It was a lover and his lass

    8. Thomas Morley: Twelfth night or what you will, II,3
  8. O mistress mine

    9. Anon.: Othello, IV, 3
  9. Willow song

    10. Anon.: Henry V, mentioned at IV, 4
  10. Caleno custure me

    11. Anon., 17th c.:
  11. Miserere my Maker

    12. Thomas Campion:
  12. I care not for these ladies

    13. John Bartlett:
  13. Of all the birds

    14. Philip Rosseter:
  14. What then is love

    15. John Blow:
  15. The Self-banished

    16. Jeremiah Clarke:
  16. The glory of the Arcadian groves

    17. John Dowland:
  17. Fine knacks for ladies
  18. Flow my tears

    19. Henry Purcell
  19. If music be the food of love (Z 379a)

    20. Henry Purcell: The Comical History of Don Quixote (Z 578)
  20. (Act V) From rosy bow'rs

    21. Henry Purcell:
  21. O Solitude (Z 406, 1685)

    22. Alessandro Scarlatti/Giulio Caccini:
  22. Pien d'amoroso affetto

    23. Alessandro Scarlatti/Saracini:
  23. Pallidetto qual viola

    24. Giulio Caccini:
  24. Amarilli mia bella

    25. Alessandro Scarlatti:
  25. Infirmata vulnerata

Performers
DVD: Alfred Deller (counter-tenor), Mark Deller (counter-tenor), Robert Spencer (lute)
CD: See related links below
rel.: 2004.

Playing time:
DVD: 1h 05'
CD: 1h 15' 56"

Recording site and date:
DVD: Unknown [1975], broadcasting [02/1976]
CD: See related links below
Rel.: 2009.

Excerpts from original recordings:
[6]-[10] Harmonia mundi "Deller Recordings" DR 202 [LP] Shakespeare Songs and Consort Music
[11]-[16] Harmonia mundi "Deller Recordings" DR 215 [LP] Alfred Deller Solo - Airs anglais du XVIIe & XVIIIe siècle
[17]-[18], [22]-[25] Harmonia mundi HMU 228 [LP] Alfred Deller Solo (vol. 2)
[19]-[20] Harmonia mundi HM 249 [LP] Henry Purcell - Music for a while
[21] Harmonia mundi HM 247 [LP] Henry Purcell: O Solitude - Chants et Anthèmes

Reviewed in:
Diapason (#-p.): 571-118 (July/August 2009)
Fanfare (Vol./#-p.):33/2-382 (Nov./Dec. 2009)

Comments:
Information from DVD/CD. Interview by Jean-Claude Biette; direction by Benoît Jacquot.
The CD is identical to CD-3 of Harmonia mundi HMX 290 261 / 264 [CDx4] Alfred Deller – Portrait of a Legend.

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Pierre-F. Roberge