The Art of Alfred Deller

The Art of Alfred Deller - The most famous recordings
Alfred Deller and various artists
Vanguard VSD 729/30 [LPx2, mono & stereo]
Vanguard Classics 92 529 [CDx2, France]
Vanguard (Arcade) Classics "The Alfred Deller Edition" 08 9087 72 [CDx2, Europe]

Contents:

    LP-1 / CD-1

    Anon.: Traditional english songs
  1. The three ravens
  2. The cuckoo
  3. Barbara Allen
  4. Hey, ho, the wind and the rain
  5. I will give my love an apple
  6. The oak and the ash
  7. King Henry
  8. Greensleeves

    9. Anon.:
  9. Sumer is icumen in

    10. Thomas Morley: The First Booke of Balletts to Five Voyces, iii (1595)
  10. Now is the month maying

    11. John Dowland:
  11. If my complaints could passions move

    12. John Byrd:
  12. Come pretty babe

    13. John Wilbye, The first set of english madrigals XI (1598)
  13. Thus saith my Cloris bright

    14. Thomas Weelkes:
  14. To shorten winter's sadness

    15. John Parsons:
  15. Pandolpho

    16. Thomas Morley: Madrigalls to Foure Voyces... The First Booke, vii (1594)
  16. In dew of roses

    17. George-Frideric Haendel: Ode for the anniversary of Queen Anne
  17. Eternal source

    18. LP-2 / CD-2

    Orlando de Lassus:
  18. Matona mia cara

    19. G Caccini:
  19. Amarilli

    20. Claudio Monteverdi / O. Rinuccini (t)
    Published in Il sesto libro de' madrigali, Venice, 1614
    Lamento d'Arianna (sv107)
  20. Part One: Lasciatemi morire

    21. Clément Janequin
  21. Le chant de l'Alouette

    22. Passereau:
  22. Il est bel et bon

    23. Saracini:
  23. Da te parto

    24. Josquin Desprez:
  24. La déploration de Jehan Ockeghem

    25. Heinrich Schütz:
  25. Erhöre mich

    26. Johann-Sebastian Bach: Mass, in B minor
  26. Agnus Dei

    27. Henry Purcell (wds: Dryden & Lee): Oedipus, Z. 583 (1692) (arr.: Tippett & Bergmann)
  27. Song: Music for a while

    28. Henry Purcell: The Indian Queen
  28. I attempt from love's sickness to fly

    29. Henry Purcell: Come, ye sons of art, Z323; text N. Tate
    (Ode on the Birthday of Mary II, 1694)
  29. Excerpts:
    1. Sound the trumpet till around (counter-tenors)
    Henry Purcell: The Fairy Queen
  30. The plaint
  31. Secrecie's song
  32. Mystery's song

    33. Henry Purcell: King Arthur
  33. Fairest Isle

    34. Henry Purcell (wds: Heveningham, arr. Tippett & Bergmann)
  34. Song (1v): If Music be the food of love (Z. 379A, 1st version, 1692)

Playing time: 45' 51" + 53' 11" = 99' 02"

For information on Performers & site and date of recording, refer to individual references:

Date of release:
? (729/30); 1990 (92.529), 1993 (08 9087 72)

Excerpts from (original recording):
[1]-[8] Vanguard VRS-479 - English Folk Songs - The Three Ravens
[9] Vanguard "The Bach Guild " BG-602/BGS-5030 Tavern Songs Vol. II A collection of catch and glees both ribald and refined
[10], [16] Vanguard "The Bach Guild" BG 577 The English Madrigals School, vol. 3 - Thomas Morley
[11], [15] Vanguard "The Bach Guild" BG-539 - Elizabethan and Jacobean Music
[12] Vanguard "The Bach Guild" BG-557 - William Byrd and His Age
[13] Vanguard "The Bach Guild " BG-578 [LP, mono] The English Madrigal School, vol. 4 - John Wilbye
[14] Vanguard "The Bach Guild" BG-553 The English Madrigal School vol. I
[17] Vanguard "The Bach Guild" BG-661 / BGS 661 Handel - 3 Coronation Anthems & Ode for the birthday of Queen Anne
[18] Vanguard "The Bach Guild" BG-604 / BGS 5031 Madrigals Masterpieces - The Renaissance in France, Italy and England
[19], [23] Vanguard "The Bach Guild" BG-565 - Italian Songs
[20]-[21], [24] Vanguard "The Bach Guild" BGS 70 671 [LP, stereo] Lamento d'Arianna and other madrigals - Madrigal Masterpieces, vol. 3
[22] Vanguard "The Bach Guild" BG 639 / BGS 5051 Madrigal Masterpieces vol. 2
[25]Vanguard "The Bach Guild" BG 691 / BGS 70 691 Duos de Contre-Ténors - Duets for Counter-tenors
[26] Vanguard "The Bach Guild" BG 550 Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantate 170 & 54 - Agnus Dei
[27]-[28], [33]-[34] Vanguard "The Bach Guild" BG 570 / 71 Henry Purcell - Celebrated Songs
[29] Vanguard "The Bach Guild" BG 635 / BGS 5047 Henry Purcell: Come Ye sons of Art (Ode on the birthday of Queen Mary, 1694)
[30]-[32] Vanguard "The Bach Guild" BG-547 - Music of Purcell, Jenkins and Locke

Reviewed in: see also specific links
Diapason (#-p.): 364-215 (october 1990)
Gramophone (Vol./#-p.):
Fanfare (Vol./#-p.):

Comments:
Information from owned CD
For the excerpt from HMV, I assumed that the statement made by Alan Howlett in the discography published in "Alfred Deller, A Singularity of a Voice" was correct: "most Deller/Bergman discs (i.e. early HMV 78s) have been remastered for LPs and appear on Vanguard Homage to Henry Purcell.

To purchasing information for this disc.

To FAQ references to this recording.

To FAQ CD index page.

Pierre-F. Roberge