Henry Purcell - Te Deum & Jubilate Deo

Henry Purcell
Te Deum & Jubilate Deo
Stour Music Festival Choir (Ashford's girls) & Stour Festival Chamber Orchestra - Alfred Deller, dir.
Harmonia mundi « Deller Recordings » DR 207 [LP]
Harmonia mundi DR 207 / HM 207 [LP / sleeve]
Harmonia mundi HM 207 [LP]
Harmonia mundi HM 40 207 [Cass.]
Harmonia mundi « Musique d'Abord » HMA 190 207 [CD]
Harmonia mundi « Musique d'Abord » HMA 43 207 [Cass.]
RCA « Victrola » VICS-1407 [LP]
Harmonia mundi (German) HM 30.703 [LP]
BASF 2029 366 [LP]

Contents:

    Henry Purcell:
  1. Te Deum in D major (Z 232, 1694)
  2. Jubilate Deo in D major (Z 232, 1694)

  3. ----
  4. In guilty night (Saul and the Witch of Endor) (Z 134, 1693)
  5. Man that is born of a woman (Funeral Sentences) (Z 27, ?1680-82)

Performers:
[1]-[2] The Deller Consort
Honor Sheppard (soprano), Christina Clarke (soprano), Alfred Deller (counter-tenor), Neil Jenkins (tenor), Maurice Bevan (baritone)
with Instrumental Ensemble
Sylvia Cleaver (violin), Philip Jones (trumpet), Elga Howarth (trumpet), Anna Shuttleworth (cello), Robert Elliott (organ)
Stour Music Festival Choir (Ashford's girls)
Stour Festival Chamber Orchestra
Alfred Deller, dir.
[3] The Deller Consort
Honor Sheppard (Witch - soprano), Alfred Deller (Saul - counter-tenor), Maurice Bevan (Samuel - baritone), Anna Shuttleworth (cello), Robert Elliott (organ)
Alfred Deller, dir.
[4] The Deller Consort
Honor Sheppard (soprano), Alfred Deller (counter-tenor), Neil Jenkins (tenor), Maurice Bevan (baritone)
Stour Music Festival Choir (Ashford's girls)
Stour Festival Chamber Orchestra
Alfred Deller, dir.

Playing time: 23' 16" + 20' 17" = 43' 33" (LP); 43' 50" (CD)

Recording site and date:
Unknown [1968 or prior];
Rel.: 1968 (DR), 1969 (RCA), 1979 (DR/HM), 1981 (HM 40), 1988 (HMA 190), 1990 (HMA 43).

Reviewed in:
Diapason (#-p.): 130-22 (oct. 1968), 337-177 (april 1988, as HMA 190 207)

Excerpts:
[1, exc.] Harmonia mundi "Passerelles" HMB 590 017 / 18 [CDx2 + book] Les Contre-ténors - Mythes et Réalités (with a book by Peter Giles)
[3] Harmonia mundi HMX 290 261 / 264 [CDx4] Alfred Deller - Portrait of a Legend

Compilation:
Harmonia Mundi HMX 290 8057 / 8059 [CDx3]

Comments:
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Pierre-F. Roberge