Shakespeare songs

Shakespeare songs and Consort music
Alfred Deller, Deller Consort, Desmond Dupré
Harmonia mundi « Deller Recordings » DR 202 [LP]
Harmonia mundi HM 202 [LP]
Harmonia mundi HM 40 202 [Cass.]
Harmonia mundi HMU 202 [LP]
Harmonia mundi « Musique d'Abord » HMA 190 202 [CD]
Harmonia mundi « Musique d'Abord » HMA 43 202 [Cass.]
Harmonia mundi « Musique d'Abord » HMA 195 202 [CD]
Harmonia mundi (Germany) HM 30.700 [LP, Germany]
Harmonia mundi (BASF) 202 936 2 [LP]
RCA « Victrola » VIC 1266 [LP, mono, USA]
RCA « Victrola » VICS 1266 [LP, stereo, USA]
Oryx « Collector's Series » 726 [LP, UK]
Oryx « Collector's Series » 1526 [LP, UK]

Contents:

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

    2. John Wilson: Measure for measure, IV, 1
  2. Take, O take those lips away

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

    4. Thomas Weelkes:
  4. Strike it up, Tabor

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

    6. Robert Johnson II: The Tempest, VI, 1
  6. Where the bee sucks

    7. Anon.: Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, IV, 5
  7. How should I your true love know

    8. Francis Cutting:
  8. Walsingham variation

    9. Anon.:
  9. We be soldiers three

    10. ----
    Anon.: Romeo and Juliet, IV, 5
  10. When griping griefs

    11. Robert Johnson II: The Tempest, I, 2
  11. Full fathom five

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

    13. Anon.: King Lear, I
  13. Canon: Then they for sudden joy did weep

    14. Anon.:
  14. Bonny, sweet Robin, luth solo

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

    16. Anon.:
  16. Kemp's jig, luth solo

    17. Anon., trad.:
  17. Greensleeves

    18. Anon.: Ravenscroft's Melismas
  18. He that will an ale-house keep

    19. William Byrd:
  19. Non Nobis Domine

Performers:
[1]-[7], [8]-13], [15], [17]-[19] The Deller Consort
Alfred Deller (counter-tenor), Philip Todd (tenor), Max Worthley (tenor), Maurice Bevan (baritone)
Alfred Deller, dir.
[8], [14], [16] Desmond Dupré (lute solo)

Playing time: 20' 18" + 19' 05" = 39' 23" (LP); 39' 32" (CD)

Recording site and date:
Church of Broughton Aluph, Kent, U.K. [september 1966]
Rel.: 1967 (Harmonia mundi, Oryx, Victrola), 1982 (HM), 1987 (HMA 190), 1990 (HMA 43), 2000 (HMA 195)

Compilation:
Deutsche Harmonia mundi (BMG) 05472 77692 2 [CD] Shakespeare Songs & Consort Music.

Excerpts:
[1]-[9] Harmonia mundi HM 260 [LP] La Renaissance anglaise - Les plus beaux enregistrements du Deller Consort
[1], [3], [5], [12], [15] Harmonia mundi HMX 290 261 / 264 [CDx4] Alfred Deller – Portrait of a Legend
[2] Encyclopédie sonore 320E905 [LP]
[3], [7], [15] Shakespeare, la scène et ses miroirs: Hamlet, la Nuit des rois ISBN 2-240-00548-3 [Book+CD]

Reviewed in:
Diapason (#-p.): 121-37 (nov. 1967)
Gramophone (Vol./#-p.): 45/533- (nov. 1967):

Comments:
Information from LPs (HM 202, Oryx) & CD; the title on the Oryx release is Shakespearian songs & Lute Solos.
The date (1969) stated on the back cover of the CD booklet is obviously wrong, the original LP was reviewed in november 1967 edition of Diapason.

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Pierre-F. Roberge