A. Deller - Christmas songs vol. V

From Heaven above - Christmas Carols

aka: Noëls (HMD release)
Choir of Girls from Ashford; Instrumental ensemble - Walter Bergman, cond.; Deller Consort
Harmonia mundi « Deller Recordings » DR 206 [LP]
Harmonia mundi HMD 206 [LP]
RCA « Victrola » VIC 1376 [LP, mono]
RCA « Victrola » VICS 1376 [LP, stereo]

Contents:

Anon., Old French / Setting by Carl Orff

1. Patapan

Piae Cantiones / Setting by Carl Orff

2. Good King Wenceslas

Trad., England / Setting by Carl Orff

3. The Sussex Carol

Anon., medieval England

4. There is No Rose

Anon., France / Setting by Carl Orff

5. Ding Dong, Merry on Hill

Anon., Old German / Setting by Carl Orff

6. The crib

Anon., Old French

7. Psallite

Anon., Old German / Setting by Carl Orff

8. Mary and the Thorn Bush

Anon., England, ca 1591

9. The Coventry Carol

Luther / Gumpeltzhaimer (arr.)

10. From Heaven Above

Hans Grüber:

11. Silent Night

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Johann Christoph Pezel

12. Pastorale

Matthias Weckmann

13. Cantata: The Annunciation

Antonio Vivaldi: Il pastor fido

14. Pastorale

Dietrich Buxtehude

15. In dulci jubilo

Performers:
[1]-[3], [5]-[6], [8], [11] Choir of Girls from Ashford & Instrumental Ensemble
Walter Bergmann, cond.
[4], [7], [9]-[10], [15] The Deller Consort
Honor Sheppard (soprano), Alfred Deller (countertenor), Neil Jenkins (tenor), Maurice Bevan (baritone)
[12], [14] Instrumental Ensemble
Walter Bergmann, cond.
[13] The Deller Consort
Honor Sheppard (soprano), Maurice Bevan (baritone)

Playing time: ??' ??"

Excerpts:
[12]-[15] Harmonia mundi HM 406 [LP] Cantates et Sonates pour la Nuit de Noël

Recording site and date:
Unknown [1966];
Rel.: 1968

Reviewed in:

Comments:
Information from LP (RCA Victor); never re-edited, no other trace of this recording has been found.
Date of recording is as stated in Jean-Luc Tingaud « Alfred Deller, le contre-ténor », édition Josette Lyon, p. 142.

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