Alfred Deller - Portrait of a Legend

Alfred Deller - Portrait of a Legend
Alfred Deller et al.
Harmonia mundi HMX 290 261 / 264 [CDx4]

Content:

    CD-1

    Henry Purcell (m) / ?Thomas Betterton (t) after a Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
    The Fairy Queen (Z. 629, 1693 version)

    Act II

  1. Prelude (an Elf): Come all ye songsters of the sky (Z. 629/7)
  2. Prelude (Birds fly down, singing) (Z. 629/8a)
  3. Trio (Three Elves): May the God of Wit inspire (Z. 629/8b)
    Trio (Three Elves): While Echo shall remote (Z. 629/8c)

    4. Act III

  4. Aria (dialogue – Corydon, Mopsa): Now the maids and the men (Z. 629/22)

    5. Act IV

  5. Symphony (Sonata while the sun risees): (Z. 629/27)

    6. Act V

  6. Aria (a Chinese man): Thus the gloomy world at first began to shine (Z. 629/43)
  7. Prelude, Aria (a Chinese woman) and Chorus: Thus happy and free (Z. 629/44)
  8. Ground and Aria (Chinese man): Yes, Xansi, in your look I find (Z. 629/45)
  9. Monkies' Dance (Z. 629/46)

    10. Henry Purcell (m) / John Dryden (t)
    King Arthur or the British Worthy (Z 628, 1691)

    Act I, scene 2

  10. Aria: I call ye all to Woden's hall (Z. 628/9)

    11. Act V, scene 2

  11. Aria (Venus): Fairest Isle (Z. 628/38)

    12. Henry Purcell (m) / Johnt Dryden & Robert Howard (t)
    The Indian Queen (Z. 630, 1695)

    Prologue / Act I

  12. Aria (Indian Boy): Wake, Quivera, wake (Z. 630/4b)

    13. Act III

  13. Trumpet Overture: Canzon/Adagio (Z. 630/16)
  14. Duet and Quartet (Aerial spirits): Ah! Ah! How happy we are! (Z. 630/17a)
    Duet and Quartet (Aerial spirits): We the spirits of the air (Z. 630/17a)
  15. Aria (Aerial spirits): I attempt from Love's sickness (soprano solo) (Z. 630/17a)

    16. Theatre Music

    Henry Purcell, autographic ms, Guildhall Library, London (1694)
  16. Olinda (Z. 404)

    17. Henry Purcell (m) / William Congreve (t), « The Old Bachelor » (Z.607, 1693)
  17. Thus to a ripe, consenting maid (Z. 607/10)

    18. Henry Purcell (m) / ?William Mountfort (melody) after Dioclesian by J Fletcher & P Massinger (1690)
  18. O how happy's he (Z. 403)

    19. CD-2

    Gregorian
  19. Last Lesson from Office of Easter Saturday: Incipit lamentatio Jeremiae prophetae

    20. Thomas Tallis
  20. Hymn: Te lucis ante terminum (Cantiones sacrae)

    21. François Couperin: Leçons de Ténèbres (Deuxième leçon)
  21. Vau. Et egressus est
    Zain. Recordata est Jerusalem
    Heth. Peccatum peccavit
    Teth. Sordes ejus
    Jerusalem

    22. Dietrich Buxtehude:
  22. Cantata (solo voice, viola da gamba and continuo): Jubilate Domino

    23. Henry Purcell:
  23. In guilty night (Saul and the Witch of Endor) (Z 134, 1693)

    24. Orlando Gibbons
  24. Verse anthem: Great King of Gods

    25. Giovanni Perluigi Palestrina:
  25. Ave verum

    26. Alessandro Grandi:
  26. Cantabo Domine

    27. CD-3

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    34. John Bartlett:
  34. Of all the birds

    35. Philip Rosseter:
  35. What then is love

    36. John Blow:
  36. The Self-banished

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

    38. John Dowland:
  38. Fine knacks for ladies
  39. Flow my tears

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

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

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

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

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

    45. Giulio Caccini:
  45. Amarilli mia bella

    46. Alessandro Scarlatti:
  46. Infirmata vulnerata

    47. CD-4

    Anon.:
  47. The three Ravens
  48. Black is the colour of my true love's hair

    49. Thomas Morley:
  49. Sweet nymph, come to thy lover
  50. I go before my darling

    51. Anon.:
  51. The Oak and the Ash
  52. Barbara Allen
  53. Lord Rendall
  54. Water is wide
  55. The Tailor and the Mouse
  56. Down by the sally Garden's
  57. I will give my love an Apple

    58. Thomas Morley:
  58. Miraculous love's wounding

    59. Robert Jones:
  59. Sweet Kate

    60. Anon.:
  60. Bushes and Briars
  61. The foggy, foggy Dew
  62. She moved through the fair
  63. The Evening Prayer

Performers, recording site and date:
See related links below
rel.: 2004.

Playing time: 41' 40" + 56" 35" + 75' 56" + 39' 36" = 3h 33' 47"

Excerpts from original recordings:
[1]-[9] Harmonia Mundi HMD 231 (HM 231, HM 232, HM 233) [LPx3] Henry Purcell: The Fairy-Queen - An Opera reprented at the Queen's-Theatre By Their Majesties Servants
[10] Harmonia mundi HM 252.53 [LPx2] Henry Purcell: King Arthur
[11], [15], [40]-[41] Harmonia mundi HM 249 [LP] Henry Purcell - Music for a while
[12]-[14] Harmonia mundi HM 243 [LPx2] Henry Purcell: The Indian Queen & "The Masque" (from Timon of Athens)
[16], [18] Harmonia mundi "Deller Recordings" DR 218 [LP] Ayres de Henry Purcell - Musique de scène, Airs et Opéra, Odes et Musique sacrés
[17] Harmonia mundi "Deller Recordings" DR 214 [LP] Ayres de Henry Purcell - Musique de théâtre
[19] Harmonia mundi HMD 234 [LP] Chant grégorien - Répons et monodies gallicanes
[20] Harmonia mundi "Deller Recordings" DR 208 [LP] Thomas Tallis - Les Lamentations de Jéremie le prophète
[21] Harmonia mundi "Deller Recordings" DR 210 [LP] François Couperin - Leçons de Ténèbres
[22] Harmonia mundi HM 929 [LP] Dietrich Buxtehude - Jubilate Domino: Cantatas & organ works - Kantaten & orgelwerke - Cantates & oeuvres d'orgue
[23] Harmonia mundi "Deller Recordings" DR 207 [LP] Henry Purcell - Te Deum & Jubilate Deo
[24] Harmonia mundi "Deller Recordings" DR 219 [LP] Orlando Gibbons: Vocal and instrumental music
[25]-[26] Harmonia mundi "Deller Recordings" DR 221 [LP] Claudio Monteverdi - Messe à quatre voix avec trombones & La naissance du Baroque - Grandi, Frescobaldi, Palestrina, Bassano
[27]-[31] Harmonia mundi "Deller Recordings" DR 202 [LP] Shakespeare Songs and Consort Music
[32]-[37] Harmonia mundi "Deller Recordings" DR 215 [LP] Alfred Deller Solo - Airs anglais du XVIIe & XVIIIe siècle
[38]-[39], [43]-[46] Harmonia mundi HMU 228 [LP] Alfred Deller Solo (vol. 2)
[42] Harmonia mundi HM 247 [LP] Henry Purcell: O Solitude - Chants et Anthèmes
[47]-[63] Harmonia mundi "Deller Recordings" HMD 226 [LP] Folksongs

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