Alfred Deller Solo

Alfred Deller Solo
« O ravishing delight » Airs anglais du XVIIe & XVIIIe siècle pour contre-ténor solo
Alfred Deller et al.
Harmonia mundi « Deller Recordings » DR 215 [LP]
Harmonia mundi HM 30.708 [LP, Germany]
Harmonia mundi HM 215 / DR 215 [Sleeve/LP]
Harmonia mundi « Deller Recordings » HMD 215 [LP]
Harmonia mundi HMU 215 [LP]
RCA « Victrola » VICS 1492 [LP]

Contents:

    Anon., 17th c.
  1. Miserere my Maker

    2. John Dowland
  2. Shall I sue

    3. Thomas Campion
  3. I care not for these ladies

    4. John Dowland
  4. Come heavy sleep

    5. John Bartlett
  5. Of all the birds

    6. John Dowland
  6. I saw my lady weep
  7. Wilt thou unkind

    8. Thomas Campion
  8. The Cypress curtain of the night

    9. –
    Philip Rosseter
  9. What then is love

    10. Francis Pilkington
  10. Rest sweet Nymphs

    11. John Blow
  11. The fair lover and his black mistress
  12. The Self-Banished

    13. Jeremiah Clarke
  13. The glory of the Arcadian groves

    14. John Eccles
  14. Oh! the mighty pow'r of love

    15. Jeremiah Clarke
  15. In her brave offspring

    16. William Croft
  16. My time, o ye Muses

    17. Daniel Purcell
  17. O Ravishing Delight !

Playing time: 26' 10" + 24' 26" = 50' 36"

Performers:
Alfred Deller (counter-tenor), Desmond Dupré (lute and viola di gamba), David Munrow (recorder), Richard Lee (recorder), Robert Elliott (harpsichord)

Recording site and date:
Church of All Saints, Boughton Aluph, UK [1969 or prior];
Rel.: 1969.

Compilation:
Harmonia mundi HMC 254/6 [LPx3] In memory of Alfred Deller Airs anglais et italiens
Harmonia mundi HM 40 254/6 [Cass. x3] In memory of Alfred Deller Airs anglais et italiens
Harmonia mundi HM 90 215 [CD] Alfred Deller - Airs Anglais
Harmonia mundi HMX 290 836/8 [CDx3] Inoubliable Alfred Deller - A Portrait

Excerpts:
[1]-[8] Harmonia mundi HM 260 La Renaissance en Angleterre. Les plus beaux enregistrements du Deller Consort
[1]-[8] Harmonia mundi HM 40 260 La Renaissance en Angleterre. Les plus beaux enregistrements du Deller Consort
[2]-[3], [5], [9], [12], [13] Harmonia mundi HMX 290 261 / 264 [CDx4] Alfred Deller - Portrait of a Legend [6], [12], [16] Harmonia mundi « Passerelles » HMB 590 017 / 18 [CDx2 + book] Les Contre-ténors - Mythes et Réalités (with a book by Peter Giles)

Reviewed in:
Diapason (#-p.): 140-36 (oct. 1969)
Gramophone (Vol./#-p.): 55/657-1455 (feb. 1978 (as HMU 215)):

Comments:
Information from LP (HM).

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Pierre-F. Roberge