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Title: Concert of the Deller Consort in Royaumont
Collection: RTF / RTF / Others (1949-1963)
Recording date: sunday 09/09/1962
First broadcast date: monday 24/09/1962
Recording location: Asnières sur Oise, ABBAYE DE ROYAUMONT
Duration: 01:19:00
Credits: Auteur de l'oeuvre pré-existante, Weelkes, Thomas
; Auteur de l'oeuvre pré-existante, Ward, John ; Auteur de
l'oeuvre pré-existante, Dowland, John ; Auteur de l'oeuvre
pré-existante, Travers, John ; Auteur de l'oeuvre
pré-existante, Gesualdo, Carlo ; Auteur de l'oeuvre
pré-existante, Wilbye, John ; Auteur de l'oeuvre
pré-existante, Pilkington, Francis ; Auteur de l'oeuvre
pré-existante, Gibbons, Orlando ; Auteur de l'oeuvre
pré-existante, Cornysh, William ; Compositeur de la musique
pré-existante, Purcell, Henry ; Compositeur de la musique
pré-existante, Monteverdi, Claudio ; Interpreter, Ensemble
Deller Consort de Ashford
Descriptors: festival ; abbey (Royaumont)
Name of works:
- Hark, All We Lovely (2'55) / Author: Weelkes Thomas /
Interpretation: Deller Consort
- O Care, Thou Wilt Despatch (5'16) / Author: Weelkes Thomas /
Interpretation: Deller Consort
- The Nightingale (1'09) / Author: Weelkes Thomas / Interpretation:
Deller Consort
- Hope Of My Heart (3'50) / Author: Ward John / Interpretation:
Deller Consort
- Fine Knacks For Ladies (2'05) / Author: Dowland John / Interpretation:
Deller Consort
- Me, Me, And None But Me (3'40) / Author: Dowland John / Interpretation:
Deller Consort
- Come Again, Sweet Love (1'17) / Author: Dowland John / Interpretation:
Deller Consort
- Sleep Wayward Thoughts (3'30) / Author: Dowland John / Interpretation:
Deller Consort
- Ah Robin (2'28) / Author: Cornythe William / Interpretation:
Deller Consort
- When The Cock Begins To Grow (2'38) / Author: Purcell Henry /
Interpretation: Deller Consort
- Fair And Ugly (1'59) / Auteur : Travers John / Interprétation
: Deller Consort
- Sfogara Con Le Stèle (3'25) / Author: Monteverdi Claudio
/ Interpretation: Deller Consort
- Cruda Amarilli (3'01) / Author: Monteverdi Claudio / Interpretation:
Deller Consort
- O Mirtillo (3'25) / Author: Monteverdi Claudio / Interpretation:
Deller Consort
- Belta, Poiche T'assenti (3'44) / Author: Gesualdo Carlo /
Interpretation: Deller Consort
- Moro Lasso (4') / Author: Gesualdo Carlo / Interpretation: Deller
Consort
- Non Piu Guerra (2'01) / Author: Monteverdi Claudio/ Interpretation:
Deller Consort
- Adieu Sweet Amaryllis (2'24) / Author: Wilbye John / Interpretation:
Deller Consort
- Care For Thy Soul (4'45) / Author: Pilkington Francis / Interpretation:
Deller Consort
- On The Plains (1'10) / Author: Weelkes Thomas / Interpretation:
Deller Consort
- The Silver Swan (1'44) / Author: Gibbons Orlando / Interpretation:
Deller Consort
- Sweet Honey (3'55) / Author: Wilbye John / Interpretation: Deller
Consort
Title: Royaumont Music Season: Deller Consort concert
Collection: RTF / RTF / Others (1949-1963)
Recording date: sunday 23/06/1963
First broadcast date: saturday 10/08/1963
Recording location: Royaumont
Duration: 00:59:00
Credits:
Musique religieuse anglaise Tallis, Thomas ; Byrd, William ; Philips,
Peter; Costeley, Guillaume ; Lassus, Roland de ; Weelkes, Thomas ;
Monteverdi, Claudio ; Marenzio, Luca ; Tomkins, Thomas ; Wilbye,
John ; Morley, Thomas
Musique religieuse anglaise
1. Tallis (Th.) [comp.], Musique religieuse
2. Philips (P.) [comp.], Musique religieuse
3. Byrd (W.) [comp.], Musique religieuse
Chansons françaises
4. Costeley (G.) [comp.], Chansons
5. Lassus (R. de) [comp.], Chansons
6. Janequin (Cl.) [comp.], Chansons
Songs pour voix d'hommes
7. Weelkes (Th.) [comp.], Chansons
8. Rore (C. de) [comp.], Chansons
9. Cornysh (W.) [comp.], Chansons
Madrigaux italiens
10. Monteverdi (Cl.) [comp.], Madrigaux [indéterminés]
11. Marenzio (L.) [comp.], Madrigaux
Madrigaux anglais
12. Tomkins (Th.) [comp.], Madrigaux
13. Vautor (Th.) [comp.], Madrigaux
14. Wilbye (J.) [comp.], Madrigaux
15. Morley (Th.) [comp.], Madrigaux *
16. Ward (J.) [comp.], Madrigaux *
Anmerkungen
1-3. Musique religieuse anglaise
4-6. Chansons françaises
7-9. Songs pour voix d'hommes
10-11. Madrigaux italiens
12-16. Madrigaux anglais
Title: Shakespeare Birthday, 2: Deller Consort concert, 1
Programme title: Le livre d'or
Collection: France Culture
Recording date: monday 09/11/1964
First broadcast date: sunday 15/11/1964
Duration: 00:19:10
Credits: Director, Castagné, Léone ; Auteur de l'oeuvre
pré-existante, Weelkes, Thomas ; Auteur de l'oeuvre
pré-existante, Dowland, John ; Auteur de l'oeuvre
pré-existante, Morley, Thomas ; Auteur de l'oeuvre
pré-existante, Ward, John ; Auteur de l'oeuvre pré-existante,
Wilbye, John ; Interpreter, Ensemble Deller Consort de Ashford
Name of works:
Weelkes - Hark all ye lovely saints above (2'55) / Author: Weelkes
Thomas / Interpretation: Deller Consort
Dowland - Can she excuse my wrongs (2') / Author: Dowland John /
Interpretation: Deller Consort
Morley - It was a lover and his lass (2'40) / Auteur : Morley Thomas
/ Interprétation : Deller Consort
Johnson - Where the bee sucks (1'10) / Author: Johnson Robert /
Interpretation: Deller Consort
Johnson - Full fathom five (1'45) / Author: Johnson Robert /
Interpretation: Deller Consort
Ward - Out from the vale (4'15) / Author: Ward John / Interpretation:
Deller Consort
Wilbye - Sweet honey sucking bees (4'25) / Author: Wilbye John /
Interpretation: Deller Consort
Title: SHAKESPEARE Birthday, 3: Deller Consort concert, 2
Programme title: Le livre d'or
Collection: France Culture
Recording date: friday 13/11/1964
First broadcast date: sunday 15/11/1964
Duration: 00:12:40
Credits: Director, Castagné, Léone ; Auteur de l'oeuvre
pré-existante, Morley, Thomas ; Auteur de l'oeuvre
pré-existante, Gibbons, Orlando ; Interpreter, Ensemble
Deller Consort de Ashford
Name of works:
Morley - ... before my darling (1'25) / Author: Morley Thomas /
Interpretation: Deller Consort
Peerson - Upon MY lai my sovereign sits (4'20)/ Author: Peerson
Martin
Gibbons - The cries of London (6'55)/ Author: Gibbons Orlando
Title: SHAKESPEARE Birthday, 4: Deller Consort concert, 3
Programme title: Le livre d'or
Collection: France Culture
Recording date: friday 13/11/1964
First broadcast date: sunday 15/11/1964
Duration: 00:12:55
Credits: Director, Castagné, Léone ; Auteur de l'oeuvre
pré-existante, Weelkes, Thomas ; Auteur de l'oeuvre
pré-existante, Dowland, John ; Auteur de l'oeuvre
pré-existante, Morley, Thomas ; Auteur de l'oeuvre
pré-existante, Gibbons, Orlando ; Interpreter, Ensemble
Deller Consort de Ashford
Name of works:
Weelkes - O Care, Thou wilt despatch me (5'25) / Author: Weelkes
Thomas / Interpretation: Deller Consort
Dowland - Fine knacks for ladies (2'15) / Author: Dowland John /
Interpretation: Deller Consort
Morley - Miraculous love's wounding (3') / Author: Morley Thomas /
Interpretation: Deller Consort
Gibbons - The Silver Swann (2'15) / Author: Gibbons Orlando /
Interpretation: Deller Consort
Title: Claudio MONTEVERDI: Vespers of the Blessed Virgin / VESPRO
DELLA BEATA VERGINE
Programme title: Orchestre national de l'ORTF
Collection: France Culture
Recording date: saturday 13/02/1965
First broadcast date: sunday 15/08/1965
Recording location: Paris, église Saint Louis des Invalides
Duration: 01:39:43
Credits: Monteverdi, Claudio ; Music conductor, René Alix,
; Music conductor, Maurice Le Roux, ; Interpreter, Ensemble Deller
Consort de Ashford ; Interpreter, Choeurs de l'ORTF ; Interpreter,
Orchestre national de l'ORTF
Name of works: - Vespers of the Blessed Virgin for solos, choirs
and orchestra (1:38'30")
Domine Ad Adiuvandum
Psalm 109: Dixit Dominus
Concerto: Nigra Sum
Psalm 112: Laudate Pueri Dominum
Concerto: Pulchra Es
Psalm 121: Laetatus Sum
Concerto: Duo Seraphim
Psalm 126: Nisi Dominus
Concerto: Audi Coelum
Psalm 147: Lauda Ierusalem
Sonata: Sancta Maria Ora Pro Nobis
Hymn: Ave Maria Stella
Magnificat
Et Exultavit
Quia Respexit
Quia Fecit Mihi Magna
Et Misericordia
Fecit Potentiam
Deposuit Potes De Sede
Esurientes Implevit Bonis
Suscepit Israel
Sicut Iocutus Est
Gloria Patri
Sicut Erat In Principio
Title: 16TH MENTON MUSIC FESTIVAL: concert given on 9 August
1965
Programme title: Festival de Menton
Collection: France Culture
Recording date: monday 09/08/1965
First broadcast date: sunday 19/09/1965
Recording location: Château de Roquebrune
Duration: 00:55:30
Credits: Auteur de l'oeuvre pré-existante, Shakespeare,
William ; Compositeur de la musique pré-existante, Morley,
Thomas ; Compositeur de la musique pré-existante, Johnson,
Robert ; Compositeur de la musique pré-existante, Bach, Jean
Sébastien ; Compositeur de la musique pré-existante,
Haendel, Georg Friedrich ; Compositeur de la musique pré-existante,
Falla, Manuel de ; Compositeur de la musique pré-existante,
Villa Lobos, Heitor ; Compositeur de la musique pré-existante,
Holborne, Anthony ; Compositeur de la musique pré-existante,
Dowland, John ; Compositeur de la musique pré-existante,
Monteverdi, Claudio ; Compositeur de la musique pré-existante,
Purcell, Henry ; Interpreter, Deller, Alfred (high-contra) ;
Interpreter, Dupré, Desmond (lute) ; Interpreter, Dupré,
Desmond (guitar)
Name of works:
- It Was a lover ans His lass (2'45) / Author: Thomas Morley ;
SHAKESPEARE William / Interpretation: DELLER Alfred (high counter)
(2'05) / Author: Robert Johnson ; SHAKESPEARE William / Interpretation:
DELLER Alfred (high to)
- Where the bee sucks (1'15) / Author: Johnson Robert; SHAKESPEARE
William / Interpretation: DELLER Alfred (high to)
- Gaillarde (2'35) / Author: Anthony Holborne / Interpretation:
DUPRE Desmond (lute)
- Tarlet's resurrection (1'15) / Author: John Dowland / Interpretation:
DUPRE Desmond (lute)
- Currite Populi (2'); Salve Regina (4'15) / Author: Claudio
Monteverdi / Interpretation: DELLER Alfred (high counter)
- Beauty Thou scène of love (1'35); Crown the Altar (2'35);
Music for a while (4'10) / Author: Henry Purcell / Interpretation:
DELLER Alfred (high counter)
- Notenbüchlein für Anna Magdalena Bach: excerpt, Bist
du bei Mir BWV 508 (3'05) / Author: BACH Jean Sébastien /
Interpretation: DELLER Alfred (high counter); DUPRE Desmond (lute);
- SEMELE, excerpt: But Hark, the heavenly sphere turns round (2'25)
/ Author: Händel Georg Friedrich / Interpretation: DELLER
Alfred (high counter); DUPRE Desmond (lute)
- Tribute to Debussy (3'50)/ Author: Manuel de Falla / Interpretation:
DUPRE Desmond (guitar)
- 2 Preludes (6'20)/ Author: Villa Lobos Hector/ Interpretation:
DUPRE Desmond (guitar);
- Barbarra (2'10) / Anonymous author / Interpretation: DELLER Alfred
(high counter); DUPRE Desmond (lute)
- Waly, Valy (3'05) / Anonymous author / Performance: DELLER Alfred
(high counter); DUPRE Desmond (lute)
Title: FESTIVAL OF SAINT MAXIMIN: concert at the convent
Recording date: saturday 16/07/1966
First broadcast date: saturday 06/08/1966
Recording location: Saint Maximin la Saint Beaume, couvent
Credits: Jean-Baptiste Loeillet, Mauro Giuliani, Jacques Ibert,
Claudio Saracini, Josquin Desprez, Roland de Lassus, Claude Debussy,
Henry Purcell
Interpreter: Ensemble Deller Consort de Ashford QUATUOR BULGARE
JEAN PIERRE RAMPAL, (flute) ; RENÉ BARTOLI, (guitar)
26 Bach - Motett Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied
Title: Alfred Deller Concert (St Séverin)
Église Saint-Séverin de Paris
Collection: France Culture
Recording date: tuesday 13/09/1966
First broadcast date: saturday 02/12/1967
Title: Claudio MONTEVERDI VESPRO DELLA BEATA VERGINE / Vespers
of the Blessed Virgin
Collection: Others
Recording date: tuesday 10/01/1967
Recording location: Théâtre des Champs Elysées,
Paris, 1967
First broadcast date: thursday 08/06/1967
Duration: 01:37:20
During this public concert on 10 January 1967, the ORTF National
Orchestra conducted by Maurice LE ROUX performed:
- Claudio MONTEVERDI: Vespers of the Blessed Virgin with the Deller
Ensemble of Ashford, the ORTF Choirs led by Jean-Paul KREDER and
the Mastery of the ORTF directed by Jacques JOUINEAU (1h37'20)
Name of works: - Vespers of the Blessed Virgin (1h37'20) / Author:
MONTEVERDI Claudio / Interpretation: Orchestre national de l'ORTF;
LE ROUX Maurice; Ensemble Deller Consort de Ashford; Choeurs de
l'ORTF; KREDER Jean Paul; Maîtrise de l'ORTF; JOUINEAU
Jacques
Domine Ad Adiuvandum
Psalm 109: Dixit Dominus
Concerto: Nigra Sum
Psalm 112: Laudate Pueri Dominum
Concerto: Pulchra Es
Psalm 121: Laetatus Sum
Concerto: Duo Seraphim
Psalm 126: Nisi Dominus
Concerto: Audi Coelum
Psalm 147: Lauda Ierusalem
Sonata Sancta Maria Ora Pro Nobis
Hymn: Ave Maria Stella
Magnificat:
Et Exultavit
Quia Respexit
Quia Fecit Mihi Magna
Et Misericordia
Fecit Potentiam
Deposuit Potes De Sede
Esurientes Implevit Bonis
Suscepit Israel
Sicut Iocutus Est
Gloria Patri
Sicut Erat In Principio
Title: Deller Consort
Programme title: Le livre d'or
Collection: France Culture
Recording date: monday 23/01/1967
First broadcast date: saturday 25/02/1967
Recording location: SALLE CALVIN BOURGES,
Duration: 01:00:00
Credits: Producer, Guy Erismann, ; Tomkins, Thomas ; Wilbye, John
; Johnson, Robert ; Morley, Thomas ; Weelkes, Thomas ; Gesualdo,
Carlo ; Byrd, William ; Purcell, Henry ; Lassus, Roland de ; Debussy,
Claude ; Monteverdi, Claudio ; Interpreter, Ensemble Deller Consort
de Ashford
Name of works:
Tomkins - See, See the shepherd's Queen (song, 1'47) / Author:
Tomkins Thomas / Interpretation: Deller Consort
Byrd - Though Amaryllis Dance in green, sonnet (20'8)/ Author: Byrd
William
Wilbye - Sweet honey - sucking bees (4'15) / Author: Wilbye John
Johnson - Where te bee sucks (1'); Full Fathom five (2') / Author:
Johnson Robert
Morley - It Was a lover and his lass, air (2'45)/ Author: Morley
Thomas
Weelkes - Strike it up tailor (1'23) / Author: Weelkes Thomas
Purcell - Under this stone, catche (1'40); Fie, Nai, Prithee John
(1'10)/ Author: Purcell Henry
Lassus - Cold and dark night (3'07)/ Author: Lassus Roland de
Debussy - Songs by Charles d'Orleans no1: God is good to watch
(2'20) / Author: Debussy Claude
Gesualdo - Moro Lasso Al Mio Duolo, madrigal (3'58) / Author:
Gesualdo Carlo
Gesualdo - Belta Poi che T'assenti, madrigal (3'45) / Author:
GESUALDO Carlo
Monteverdi - O Primavera Gioventu, madrigal (2'30)/ Author: Monteverdi
Claudio
Monteverdi - Baci Soavi E Cari (3'30)/ Author: MONTEVERDI Claudio
Gibbons - The cries of London / Author: Gibbons Orlando de
Title: Deller Consort - 1st concert
Collection: France Culture
Recording date: sunday 26/07/1970
First broadcast date: friday 31/07/1970
Recording location: Lauris
Lauris - Côte d'Azur
Credits: Interpreter, Ensemble Deller Consort de Ashford
Notes: Notice created from the material sheet of Mastock
Title: Deller Consort - 2nd concert
Collection: France Culture
Recording date: sunday 26/07/1970
First broadcast date: friday 31/07/1970
Recording location: Lauris
Credits: Interpreter, Ensemble Deller Consort de Ashford
Title: Saturdays summer of France Culture
Title of time slot: Saturdays of France Culture
Collection: France Culture
Recording date: saturday 01/08/1970
First broadcast date: tuesday 29/09/1970
Recording location: Festival d'Avignon, abbaye de Sénanque
Duration: 00:30:00
Credits: Compositeur de la musique pré-existante, Purcell,
Henry ; Interpreter, Ensemble Deller Consort de Ashford
Name of works:
Purcell - The blessed virgins expotulation, Z 196 (7'30");
Purcell - Close thine eyes and sleep secure, Z 184 (4'35");
Purcell - Don Quixote, Z 578, excerpts, Let the dreadful engines
(7'00");
Purcell - Bonduca, Z 574, excerpts, O lead me to some peaceful
(3'00");
Purcell - Oedipus, Z 583, excerpts, Music for a while (4'00");
Purcell - The fairy Queen, Z 629, excerpts (1'45")
Title: The young French are musicians of 22 March 1971
Programme title: Les jeunes français sont musiciens
Collection: France Musique
Recording date: tuesday 23/03/1971
First broadcast date: thursday 22/04/1971
Recording location: Strasbourg
Duration: 01:35:00
Credits: Producer, François Serrette, ; Compositeur de la
musique pré-existante, Purcell, Henry ; Compositeur de la
musique pré-existante, Haendel, Georg Friedrich ; Compositeur
de la musique pré-existante, Bach, Jean Sébastien ;
Music conductor, List, Erwin ; Interpreter, Deller, Alfred ;
Interpreter, Deller, Mark (high-contra) ; Interpreter, Selig, Edith
(soprano) ; Interpreter, Besançon, Aimé (tenor) ;
Participant, Honegger, Marc
Summary: - Marc HONEGGER, director of the Institut de Musicologie
de Strasbourg; Emil PLATEN, director of the Collegium Musicum in
Bonn: creation and organisation of the choral singing days in
Strasbourg (16'35").
Notes: CHORAL SINGING DAYS OF STRASBOURG
Name of works:
- Hail Bright Cécilia, Z.328, ode to Ste Cecile (excerpt:
15'30 ") / Author: Purcell Henry / Interpretation: DELLER Alfred;
DELLER Mark (high-contra); HUMMEL Robert (bass); SCHEIBLE Ulrich
(bass); Orchestre universitaire de Strasbourg ; FENNELER Jean Paul
(direction)
- Cantata "Donne che in ciel" (30'30") / Author: Händel Georg
Friedrich/ Performance: Strasbourg University Orchestra; LIST Erwin
(conductor); Edith Selig (soprano)
- Magnificat, BWV 243 (30'20") / Author: BACH Jean Sébastien/
Performance: Strasbourg University Choir; PLATEN Emil (conductor);
SELIG Edith (soprano); ROTH Elen (viola); Besançon Aimé
(tenor); MASSENKEIL Gunther (bass)
Title: 26th BESAÇNON FESTIVAL: concert of the Deller
Consort
Programme title: Festival de musique de Besançon Franche
Comté
Collection: France Musique
Recording date: tuesday 04/09/1973
First broadcast date: saturday 08/12/1973
Recording location: Dole, église Saint Jean
Duration: 01:18:06
Credits: Compositeur de la musique pré-existante, Wilbye,
John ; Compositeur de la musique pré-existante, Johnson,
Robert ; Compositeur de la musique pré-existante, Dowland,
John ; Compositeur de la musique pré-existante, Gibbons,
Orlando ; Compositeur de la musique pré-existante, Farmer,
John ; Compositeur de la musique pré-existante, Tompkins,
John ; Compositeur de la musique pré-existante, Enriquez de
Valderrabano, Enrique ; Compositeur de la musique pré-existante,
Bartlet, John ; Compositeur de la musique pré-existante,
Cornysh, William ; Compositeur de la musique pré-existante,
Widmann, Erasmus ; Compositeur de la musique pré-existante,
Hassler, Hans Leo ; Auteur de l'oeuvre pré-existante,
Shakespeare, William ; Compositeur de la musique pré-existante,
Purcell, Henry ; Compositeur de la musique pré-existante,
Janequin, Clément ; Compositeur de la musique pré-existante,
Lassus, Roland de ; Music conductor, Deller, Alfred ; Interpreter,
Ensemble Deller Consort de Ashford
Summary:
As part of the twenty-sixth Besançon International Music
Festival, a chamber music concert given on 4 September 1973 in the
church of Saint Jean de Dole by the Deller Consort under the direction
of its founder Alfred DELLER.
The Deller Consort is composed of: Jean KNIBBS (soprano), Alfred
DELLER (high counter), John BUTTREY (tenor), Maurice BEVAN (baritone),
Desmond DUPRE (lute).
No announcements. Applause between each work and at the end.
Notes: Listening report: concert program.
Name of works:
The Deller Consort interprets:
- Four English Madrigals:
- 0': John WILBYE: Adieu, sweet Amaryllis (2'50")
- 3'15": John FARMER: Fair Phyllis I saw (1'40")
- 5'17": Thomas TOMPKINS: Weep no more Thou sorry boy (3'08")
- A 8'57": John FARMER: A little pretty bonny lass (1'20")
- Three songs on texts by William SHAKESPEARE accompanied by lute:
- A 10'57": Robert JOHNSON: Where the bee sucks (1'13 ")
- At 12'32": Robert JOHNSON: Full fathom five (2')
- At 14:53":Thomas MORLEY: It was a lover and his lass (2'57")
- Five pieces for lute (with Desmond DUPRE on lute):
- 18'43": anonymous (France): Alebon gaillard (1'14")
- 20'18": Enrique ENRIQUEZ DE VALDERRABANO: la Gamba (3'24")
- 24'05": John DOWLAND: Forlorn Hope (3'15")
- 27'25": Thomas (or Francis) CUTTING: Greensleeves (1'17")
- 28'55": John ROBINSON: Goe from my window (1'18")
- Four men's parts:
- At 31'07": William CORNYSHE: Ah Robin (1'53")
- 33'22": anonymous: We be soldiers three (1'43")
- 35'30": Henry PURCELL: Epitah: Under this stone (1'57")
- A 37'50 ": Henry PURCELL: When the cock begins to crow (2'37")
- Five pieces by European composers from the 15th, 16th and 17th
centuries
- A 41'38 ": Erasmus WIDMANN: Wohlauf ihr Gäste (2')
- A 44': Hans Leo HASSLER: All Lust und Freud (3'53")
- 48'20": Clément JANEQUIN: This May (52") medium
- 49'40": Roland de LASSUS: Matona mia cara (2'38")
- A 52'50": John BARTLET: Of all the birds (1'53")
- Five English Popular Songs:
- A 55'52 ": (arrangement Philip Wilkinson): The sweet nightingale
(2'23")
- A 58'42": (arrangement John Vine): The lark in the clear air
(2'13")
- A 1h01'28": (arrangement E. J. Moeran): The sailor and the young
Nancy (3'09")
- A 1h05': (arrangement Maurice Bevan): The water of Tyne (2'20")
- At 1h07'50": (arrangement Granville Bantock): Can ye sew cushion
(3')
- At 1:12.10": Orlando GIBBONS: the Cries of London (4'07").
Title: FESTIVAL D'AVIGNON: concert du Deller Consort
Collection: France Culture
Recording date: monday 06/08/1973
First broadcast date: wednesday 08/08/1973
Duration: 00:19:56
Credits: Auteur de l'oeuvre pré-existante, Dowland, John ;
Auteur de l'oeuvre pré-existante, Campion, Thomas ; Auteur
de l'oeuvre pré-existante, Van Eyck, Jacob ; Compositeur de
la musique pré-existante, Purcell, Henry ; Interpreter,
Ensemble Deller Consort de Ashford
Descriptors: festival ; Avignon
Notes: Nothing on the programs of Télérama that allows
to determine the time of broadcast.
Name of works:
- Fine knacks for ladies (2'17") / Author: DOWLAND John / Interpretation:
Deller Consort
- I care not for these ladies (1'33") / Auteur : Thomas Campion /
Interprétation : Deller Consort
- Semper Dowland semper dolens (3'10"); A fancy (2'20) / Author:
DOWLAND John / Interpretation: Deller Consort
- Variations on "Amarilli Mia Bella" (2'20) / Author: Jacob Van
Eyck / Interpretation: Deller Consort
- If music be the food of love (2'10); since from my dear astrea
(3'35) / Author: Henry Purcell / Interpretation: Deller Consort
Title: The voice (continued)
Collection: France Culture
Recording date: wednesday 01/08/1973
First broadcast date: saturday 03/01/1976
Duration: 00:48:00
Credits: Producer, Jean Louis Cavalier, ; Interpreter, Deller,
Alfred ; Participant, Deller, Alfred
Summary: - Alfred Deller (in English, with translation): definition
and history of La voix de haut-contre (12'10 "). Working session
with Alfred DELLER (10'30"- (recording in August 1973 at the
Sénanque abbey).
Title: FESTIVAL DE LA ROCHELLE: broadcast of 17 August 1974
Programme title: Festival des Rencontres d'art contemporain de La
Rochelle
Collection: France Musique
Recording date: wednesday 03/07/1974
First broadcast date: saturday 17/08/1974
Duration: 00:57:00
Credits: Josquin des Près ; Monteverdi, Claudio ; Interpreter,
Ensemble Deller Consort de Ashford
Descriptors: festival ; La Rochelle-Charente Maritime
Name of works:
Misère Mei deus (18'45) / Author: Josquin DES PRES
- Ecco morire dunque;
Ahi, Già Mi Discoloro;
Io tacero;
Ivan Dunque O Crudele;
Moro Lasso Al Mio Duolo (16'30) / Author: Gesualdo de venosa Carlo
- Lo son giovinetta;
O Primavera (16'25)
Sì ch'io vorrei morire / Author: Monteverdi Claudio
Title: Recital Alfred DELLER accompanied by Harold LESTER
Collection: France Musique
Recording date: friday 18/02/1977
First broadcast date: thursday 14/07/1977
Recording location: SALLE GAVEAU, PARIS
Thomas Campion
Shall I Come sweet love to thee
John Dowland
Flow not so fast ye fountains
Fine knacks for ladies
Anonyme du XVIe siècle
Have you seen but a white lily grow?
Robert Johnson
Care-charming sleep
Giovanni Palestrina
Ave Verum
Claudio Monteverdi
Currite Populi
Alessandro Grandi
O quam tu pulchra es
Claudio Monteverdi
Salve Regina
Georg Friedrich Haendel
Tis heav'n's all-ruling pow'r
But hark ! the heav'nly sphere turns round
Dove sei Hence, Iris, hence away
Henry Purcell
Suite No.2 G-Minor
Sweeter than roses
Epithalamium
If music be the food of love
Since from my dear Astrea's sight
Music for a while
Encore
Beauty thou scene of love
Alfred Deller, contre-ténor / Harold Lester, clavecin (18 février 1977 Salle Gaveau, Paris)
'Music to discover: concert of the DELLER CONSORT' at the GRAND
AUDITORIUM OF RADIO FRANCE, 25 November 1977.
Recording date: friday 25/11/1977
First broadcast date: wednesday 15/03/1978
Duration: 01:48:05
Credits: Producer, Pierrette Germain, ; Auteur de l'oeuvre
pré-existante, White, Robert ; Auteur de l'oeuvre
pré-existante, Guédron, Pierre ; Auteur de l'oeuvre
pré-existante, Pearson, Martin ; Auteur de l'oeuvre
pré-existante, Dowland, John ; Auteur de l'oeuvre
pré-existante, Danyel, John ; Auteur de l'oeuvre
pré-existante, Morley, Thomas ; Auteur de l'oeuvre
pré-existante, Vallet, Nicolas ; Compositeur de la musique
pré-existante, Monteverdi, Claudio ; Music conductor, Deller,
Alfred ; Interpreter, Ensemble Deller Consort de Ashford
Name of works:
- Lamentations by Jérémie (10'30)/ Author: Robert
White
- If Speaking and Silence (2'30)/ Author: Pierre Guedron
- Upon my lap my Soveraigne sits (4'15)/ Author: Pearson Martin
- La rousée du joly mois de may (1'40) / Author: Jean
Planson
- My throughts are wing'd with hope (2'50)/ Author: Dowland John
- Chromatic tunes (7'50)/ Author: Danyel John
- Suite for lute (5'55)/ Author: Ridout Alan
- O sovereign balm (5'40) / Author: Ridout Alan
- Cupid in a bed of roses (3'35)/ Author: Bateson Thomas
- Our bouny-boots could toot it (1'15)/ Author: Morley Thomas
- O softly singing lute (4'30)/ Author: Pickington Francis
- Poor is the life (1'35) / Author: East Michael
- The trousers (3') / Author: Vallet Nicolas
- Ballet and current (2'15) / Author: Espine Charles l'
- Courante et branle (3'45)/ Author: Ballard
- Luquide Per le Amor (2'15) / Author: Marenzio
- Si Chio vorrei Morera (2'55) / Author: Monteverdi
- Misero che Faro (3'15)/ Author: Vecchi
- Cedan l'Autriche tue chiare (4'40)/ Author: Marenzio
- Now is the mouth of maying (1'45)/ Author: Morley
Title: Interpretation course by Alfred DELLER, 1
Programme title: La règle du jeu
Collection: France Musique
Recording date: wednesday 09/02/1977
First broadcast date: monday 28/03/1977
Alfred DELLER gives a first interpretation course, his remarks being translated by Martine TERRIER. He speaks of the work that he will propose around two composers, Henry PURCELL and John DOWLAND; he insists on the importance of tempo according to the meaning of the sung sentences. Alfred DELLER comments on a student's interpretation of the Lamento de "Dido et Enée" by PURCELL, excerpt which the student repeated several times.
Title: Interpretation course by Alfred DELLER, 2
Programme title: La règle du jeu
Collection: France Musique
Recording date: wednesday 09/02/1977
First broadcast date: tuesday 29/03/1977
Performance course by Alfred DELLER which gives musical directions to Richard TAYLOR who sings an excerpt from Henry PURCELL's "Don Quixote". Her words are translated by Martine TERRIER who also gives a translation of the sung text. A. DELLER talks about the music of PURCELL and the tempo which he sometimes uses very light, singing with the student sometimes to better illustrate his words.
Title: Interpretation course by Alfred DELLER, 4
Programme title: La règle du jeu
Collection: France Musique
Recording date: thursday 10/02/1977
First broadcast date: thursday 31/03/1977
Interpretation course by Alfred DELLER with Julia SNOWMAN singing
"Sweet, stay a while" by John DOWLAND. Alfred DELLER finds that
there is a lack of rhythmic control (translated by Martine TERRIER)
The Commission has been able to give its opinion on this matter.
Student's recovery, interrupted by the teacher who sings a moment
with her.
- From 13'40 "to 24'50": an aria excerpted from Henry PURCELL's
"Dido and Aeneas" sung by a high student against. A. DELLER talks
about the passionate aspect of this text that must be understood
to translate its emotion. Repeat of this song several times with
comments and reviews.
Title: Interpretation course by Alfred DELLER 5th and last
Programme title: La règle du jeu
Collection: France Musique
Recording date: tuesday 01/02/1977
First broadcast date: friday 01/04/1977
Performance course given by Alfred DELLER to soprano Birgit GRENA with a song by Henry PURCELL "O lead me to some peaceful gloom". Alfred DELLER stresses the importance of silences in both PURCELL's music and MONTEVERDI's. Observations on the tempo of the second part which is a march. Importance of prosody in interpretation. The harpsichord player who accompanies the course (Harold LESTER?) explains the different styles enriched or not with frills. The style of PURCELL, even in accompaniment, respects the text. Reading the text beforehand is essential
Title: Concert of the Deller Consort
Collection: France Musique
Recording date: tuesday 06/06/1978
First broadcast date: sunday 10/09/1978
Recording location: Paris, Église Notre Dame DES BLANCS
MANTEAUX
'Concert du Deller Consort' recorded at the Eglise des Blancs
Manteaux, Paris, Paris, 6 June 1978
Duration: 01:26:35
Credits: Auteur de l'oeuvre pré-existante, Dowland, John ;
Compositeur de la musique pré-existante, Purcell, Henry ;
Presenter, Clary, Mildred ; Interpreter, Ensemble Deller Consort
de Ashford ; Interpreter, Deller, Alfred ; Interpreter, Deller,
Mark ; Interpreter, Lester, Harold (harpsichord) ; Interpreter,
Spencer, Robert (lute)
Summary:
Presentation by Mildred CLARY (18'15).
Deller Consort: Honor SHEPPARD (soprano), Alfred DELLER and Mark
DELLER (high-backs), Paul ELLIOTT (tenor), Maurice BEVAN (baritone),
Harold LESTER (harpsichord), Robert SPENCER (lute).
Notes: Deller Consort: Honor Sheppard (soprano), Alfred Deller and
Mark Deller (high-contra), Paul Elliott (tenor), Maurice Bevan
(baritone), Harold Lester (harpsichord), Robert Spencer (lute).
Name of works:
- Come again sweet Love doth Now guest (2') / Author: Dowland John
/ Interpretation: Deller Consort; SPENCER Robert (lute)
- Wilt Thou unkind thus reave me of my heart (1'40) / Author: DOWLAND
John / Interpretation: Deller Consort; SPENCER Robert
- Can she excuse my wrongs? (2') / Author: DOWLAND John / Interpretation:
Deller Consort; SPENCER Robert
- Fine Knacks for Ladies (2'20) / Author: DOWLAND John / Interpretation:
Deller Consort; SPENCER Robert
- The Earl or Essex (1'30)/ Author: DOWLAND John / Interpretation:
SPENCER Robert
- Queen Elisabeths's gaillard (1'40)/ Author: DOWLAND John /
Interpretation: SPENCER Robert
- I saw my lady weep (3'50) / Author: DOWLAND John / Interpretation:
DELLER Alfred; SPENCER Robert
- Shall I sue (2'35) / Author: DOWLAND John / Interpretation: DELLER
Alfred; SPENCER Robert
- Flow not so fast, ye fountains (3'40) / Author: DOWLAND John /
Interpretation: DELLER Alfred; SPENCER Robert
- If my complaints could passions Move (2'05) / Author: DOWLAND
John / Interpretation: Deller Consort; SPENCER Robert
- Come heavy sleep (5') / Author: DOWLAND John / Interpretation:
Deller Consort; SPENCER Robert
- Away with these self-loving lads (2'17) / Author: DOWLAND John /
Interpretation: Deller Consort; SPENCER Robert
- O Solitude, my sweetest choice (5'40) / Author: Purcell Henry /
Interpretation: DELLER Alfred; LESTER Harold (harpsichord)
- Suite in G minor (7'50)/ Author: PURCELL Henry/ Interpretation:
LESTER Harold
- Suite in C major (5'15)/ Author: PURCELL Henry/ Interpretation:
LESTER Harold
- The blessed Virgin expostulation (7'50)/ Author: PURCELL Henry /
Performance: SPENCER Robert; SHEPPARD Honor (soprano)
- Hail I Gracious Gioriana, hail! (2'10) / Author: PURCELL Henry /
Interpretation: SPENCER Robert; DELLER Alfred; DELLER Mark
- Close thine eyes (3'25) / Author: PURCELL Henry / Interpretation:
DELLER Alfred; DELLER Mark
- We the spirits of the air (1'48) / Author: PURCELL Henry /
Interpretation: DELLER Alfred; DELLER Mark
- Dido and Aeneas, excerpt: final:
When I am laid in earth with droopingt Wings / To the hills and the
vales / Author: PURCELL Henry / Interpretation: Deller Consort
Title: TRIBUTE TO ALFRED DELLER
Programme title: La musique et les hommes
Collection: France Culture
Recording date: friday 28/11/1979
First broadcast date: wednesday 30/11/1979
Duration: 02:28:40
Credits: Producer, Henry de Rouville, ; Participant, William
Christie,
Descriptors: Deller, Alfred
Summary:
William CHRISTIE: the recording he made with Wieland KUIJKEN and
Alfred DELLER before his death, the genius share in Alfred's
pesonnalite DELLER, presentation and interview
- Trade records and INA archives
Title: Deller Consort
Programme title: Le livre d'or
Collection: France Culture
Recording date: friday 10/10/1980
First broadcast date: saturday 30/05/1981
Duration: 00:55:30
Credits: Producer, Michel Crochot, ; Morley, Thomas ; Gibbons,
Orlando ; Tomkins, Thomas ; Tallis, Thomas ; Byrd, William ; Purcell,
Henry ;
Interpreter, Ensemble Deller Consort de Ashford ; Interpreter,
Deller, Alfred ; Interpreter, Lester, Harold
Name of works:
Tallis - Four Catholic hymns:
Tallis - Salvator Mundi salvanos (3'10);
Tallis - Jam Christus Astra ascenderat (4');
Tallis - O nata lux de lumine (2'05);
Tallis - Jesu Salvatore Seculi (4'40) /
Byrd - Though Amaryllis Dance in the green (2'20);
Byrd - La virginella (4');
Byrd - Emendemus in melius (4'05);
Byrd - I thought that love had been a boy (0'55)
Morley - Our bowny boots could toot it (1'10);
Morley - Love took His bow (1'45);
Morley - About the May pal new (2'10)
Author: Morley Thomas / Interpretation: Deller Consort
Gibbons - Ah dear heart (2'25);
Gibbons - O my love how comely Now (1'20);
Gibbons - Almighty and everlasting god (2'30);
Gibbons - The Silver Swan (1'35)
Author: Gibbons Orlando / Interpretation: Deller Consort
Tomkins - Too much i once lamented (2'50);
Tomkins - O, Yes! Has any Found a Lad (1'50);
Tomkins - When David heard (4'40);
Tomkins - See See the shepherd's Queen (2'10)
Author: TOMKINS Thomas / Interpretation: Deller Consort
Purcell - Solitude (6') / Author: PURCELL Henry/ Interpretation:
DELLER Alfred (against tenor); LESTER Harold (organ) (recorded on
05/04/1979 in the church of Notre-Dame des Blancs Manteaux in
Paris)
Title: Concert of the Deller Consort, 1
Collection: France Musique
Recording date: friday 13/02/1981
First broadcast date: monday 20/07/1981
Recording location: Paris, église Notre Dame des Blancs
Manteaux
Duration: 00:36:50
Credits: Byrd, William ; Interpreter, Ensemble Deller Consort de
Ashford
Name of works: - Mass with five voices / Author: BYRD William /
Interpretation: Deller Consort
Title: Deller Consort concert, 2
Collection: France Musique
Recording date: friday 13/02/1981
First broadcast date: monday 20/07/1981
Recording location: Paris, église Notre Dame des Blancs
Manteaux
Duration: 00:37:05
Credits: Da Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi ; Byrd, William ;
Interpreter, Ensemble Deller Consort de Ashford
Name of works:
- Missa assumpta est Maria / Auteur : DA PALESTRINA Giovanni Pierluigi
/ Interprétation : Deller Consort
- Laudinus in sanctus tu is / Author: BYRD William / Interpretation:
Deller Consort
Title: Deller Consort concert
Collection: France Musique
Recording date: thursday 26/04/1984
First broadcast date: tuesday 04/09/1984
Duration: 01:28:00
Credits: Morley, Thomas ; Wilbye, John ; Vasquez, Juan ; Dowland,
John ; Guédron, Pierre ; Bartlet, John ; Pilkington, Francis
; Peerson, Martin ; Bonnet, Pierre ; Ballard, Robert ; Humfrey,
Pelham ; Blow, John ; Eccles, John ; Le Jeune, Claude ; Monteverdi,
Claudio ; Janequin, Clément ; Purcell, Henry ; Interpreter,
Ensemble Deller Consort de Ashford
Name of works:
Morley - Sing we and chant it (1'45"); it Wasa lover and His lass
(2'23") / Author: Morley Thomas
Wilbye - Weep, weep mines eyes (4'40") / Author: Wilbye John
Ferrabosco - Pavane, for lute (3'45") / Author: Ferrabosco Alfonso
Jr.
Monteverdi - Sfogava con le stèle (2'55"); lamento della
ninfa (5'35") / Author: Monteverdi Claudio
Vasquez - De Los Alamos vengo (2') / Author: Vasquez Juan
East - Quick, quick away despatch (2'20") / Author: East Michael
Dowland - What if I never speed? (1'45") / Author: Dowland John
Guedron - If the speaking and silence... (2'25") / Author: Guedron
pierre
Bartlet - Of all the birds (1'45") / Author: Bartlet John
Pilkington - Spanish pavane for lute (1'45") / Author: Pilkington
Francis
Planson - The rousee of the pretty month of May (1'50") / Author:
Planson Jean
Peerson - Upon my sovereign sits (4'40") / Author: Peerson Martin
Bonnet - Francion came the other day (1'30") / Author: Bonnet
Pierre
- Mignonne let's see if the rose (2'15") / Author: COSTELEY
Guillaume
- The most beautiful in town (1'35") / Author: JANEQUIN Clément
- Entry and current, for lute (2'45") / Author: BALLARD Robert
- Belle qui tiens ma vie (2'50") / Anonymous author
- Spring is here again (2'45") / Author: LE JEUNE Claude
- Ah, fading Joy (2'50") / Author: HUMFREY Pelham
- The self banished (1'50") / Author: BLOW John
- Wine does wonders (2'15") / Author: ECCLES John
- Dialogue: good neighbourg, why (3'40"); WE the spirits of the air
(1'45") / Author: PURCELL Henry
Title: Alfred Deller: Part 1
Programme title: Les greniers de la mémoire
notice.titrePhonogramme: Alfred Deller
Collection: France Musique
Recording date: friday 16/11/2001
First broadcast date: sunday 02/12/2001
Duration: 01:00:00
Credits: Producer, Karine Le Bail, ; Presenter, Le Bail, Karine ;
Participant, Christie, William ; Participant, Deller, Alfred ;
Participant, Bergmann, Walter ; Participant, Coutaz, Bernard
Descriptors: lyric art ; counter tenor ; voice ; baroque ; publishing
(phonographic industry) ; music ; Deller, Alfred ; publisher (Harmonia
mundi)
Summary:
William CHRISTIE (1989 Archives): evocation of Alfred Deller. The
peculiarities of his singing.
Alfred DELLER (INA Archives): his career in high school against.
His repertoire and voice.
Walter BERGMANN (at the microphone of Mildred Clary in 1998): the beginnings of Alfred's career Deller.
Bernard COUTAZ: memory of his meeting with the high counter. Alfred
Deller at Harmonia Mundi.
With extracts from a master class given by Alfred Deller in 1973
(INA Archives).
Total interview time: 20'34.
MORE RECORDS AND ARCHIVES INA
Title: Alfred Deller: 2nd and last part
Programme title: Les greniers de la mémoire
notice.titrePhonogramme: Alfred Deller
Collection: France Musique
Recording date: tuesday 27/11/2001
First broadcast date: sunday 09/12/2001
Duration: 05:00:00
Credits: Producer, Le Bail, Karine ; Campion, Thomas ([O.1]composer)
; Rosseter, Philipp ([O.2]composer) ; Dowland, John ([O.3]composer)
; Monteverdi, Claudio ([O.4]composer) ; Monteverdi, Claudio
([O.5]composer) ; Purcell, Henry ([O.6]composer) ; Purcell, Henry
([O.7]composer) ; Purcell, Henry ([O.8]composer) ; Purcell, Henry
([O.9]composer) ; Weelkes, Thomas ([O.10]composer) ; Weelkes, Thomas
([O.11]composer) ; Weelkes, Thomas ([O.12]composer) ; Dowland, John
([O.13]composer) ; Dowland, John ([O.14]composer) ; Dowland, John
([O.15]composer) ; Presenter, Le Bail, Karine ; Interpreter, Deller,
Alfred (high against) ; Interpreter, Lester, Harold (harpsichord)
; Interpreter, Ensemble Deller Consort de Ashford (vocal ensemble)
Descriptors: lyric art ; counter tenor ; music ; baroque ; Deller,
Alfred ; Dowland, John ; Purcell, Henry
Producer summary: Baroque generation. An after-war era The Deller
path. (2/2) Concert d'archive
Summary: Baroque generation. A year after the war: the way Deller:
2nd issue
Name of works:
O.1. Shall I come sweet love to thee
to 11:00:00 - 00:02:30
Thomas Campion (composer)
O.2. What then is love but morning
to 11:00:00 - 00:04:48
Philipp Rosseter (composer)
O.3. Flow my tears
to 11:00:00 - 00:04:00
John Dowland (composer)
O.4. Salve Regina
to 11:00:00 - 00:04:30
Claudio Monteverdi (composer)
O.5. Currite populi
to 11:00:00 - 00:03:00
Claudio Monteverdi (composer)
O.6. I attempt from love's sickness to fly
to 11:00:00 - 00:03:20
Henry Purcell (composer)
O.7. Here let my life
to 11:00:00 - 00:03:00
Henry Purcell (composer)
O.8. Crown the Altar
to 11:00:00 - 00:02:30
Henry Purcell (composer)
O.9. Music for a while
to 11:00:00 - 00:03:10
Henry Purcell (composer)
O.10. Weelkes - Hark all ye lovely
to 11:00:00 - 00:02:47
Thomas Weelkes (composer)
O.11. O Care thou wilt despatch
to 11:00:00 - 00:05:10
Thomas Weelkes (composer)
O.12. The Nightingale
to 11:00:00 - 00:01:05
Thomas Weelkes (composer)
O.13. Five Knacks for ladies
to 11:00:00 - 00:02:50
John Dowland (composer)
O.14. Mimi's unknown but me
to 11:00:00 - 00:04:00
John Dowland (composer)
O.15. Come again sweet love
to 11:00:00 - 00:00:35
John Dowland (composer)
Title: Le Deller Consort: 1st issue
Programme title: Les greniers de la mémoire
Recording date: thursday 28/02/2008
First broadcast date: sunday 02/03/2008
Duration: 01:00:00
Credits: Director, Christine Amado, ; Producer, Le Bail, Karine ;
Producer, Tétart, Philippe ; Purcell, Henry ([O.1]composer)
; Weelkes, Thomas ([O.2]composer) ; Dowland, John ([O.3]composer)
; Dowland, John ([O.4]composer) ; Dowland, John ([O.5]composer) ;
Interpreter, Deller, Alfred (high-contra) ; Interpreter, Ensemble
Deller Consort de Ashford (vocal ensemble) ; Participant, Christie,
William ; Participant, Deller, Alfred ; Participant, Bergmann,
Walter
Context: Première partie de l'émission consacrée
au contre ténor britannique Alfred DELLER.
Descriptors: Deller, Alfred ; singer ; counter tenor ; voice ;
tessitura
Producer summary: Portrait of Alfred Deller
Summary: Program presented by Karine Le Bail. First part of two
programs devoted to the high-end Alfred DELLER.
William CHRISTIE (archive INA, English accent)
- at 1'50: He evokes the genius of Alfred DELLER. His recordings
with him, which he has fond memories of. The remarkable English
diction of Alfred Deller.
- at 6'10: He quotes the performers who have given baroque music
its prestige to the general public (Wanda Landowska, Andrés
Segovia, Julian Bream and Alfred Deller).
Alfred DELLER (English translation offset)
- at 14'00: Rerun of a performance course by Alfred Deller at the
Abbey of Senanques in 1973 on the music of Henry Purcell.
- at 18:30: As a child, he did not receive any musical education
but was aware of the singularity of his voice. His debut in a small
children's choir, as solo soprano. He realized that singing was his
calling after a rehearsal of an Orlando Gibbons motet.
- 30'30: His discovery of the voice of a countertenor at 30 years
old in Canterbury Cathedral. He emphasises the age of the voice of
a countertenor. The first female viola voices appeared only in the
19th century and were sung previously by counter-tenors.
Walter BERGMANN, harpsichordist (simultaneous translation of
English - in 1998 at the microphone of Mildred Clary)
- at 43'00: He recounts the meeting between Michael Tippett and
Alfred DELLER. Tippett cancelled one of his concerts to allow Deller
to have his first contract with the BBC.
MORE INA RECORDS & ARCHIVES
Name of works:
O.1. Performance course on vocal music by Henry Purcell
to 11:00:00 - 00:02:30
Henry Purcell (composer)
Recorded in 1973 at the Abbey of Sénanques (Gordes). Already
broadcast on a previous show of the Greniers de la Mémoire
in 2001. Archive INA.
O.2. The nightingale the organ of delight
to 11:00:00 - 00:01:18
Thomas Weelkes (composer)
for vocal ensemble with 3 voices a cappella
O.3. Fine knacks for ladies G 59
to 11:00:00 - 00:02:06
John Dowland (composer)
for a cappella vocal ensemble
O.4. Me, me and none but me G 83
to 11:00:00 - 00:03:42
John Dowland (composer)
for a cappella vocal ensemble
O.5. Come away (Come again, sweet love doth now invite)
to 11:00:00 - 00:01:19
John Dowland (composer)
for a cappella vocal ensemble
Title: The Deller Consort: 2nd issue
Programme title: Les greniers de la mémoire
Collection: France Musique
Recording date: tuesday 04/03/2008
First broadcast date: sunday 09/03/2008
Recording location: 135
Duration: 01:00:00
Credits: Director, Amado, Christine ; Producer, Le Bail, Karine ;
Producer, Tétart, Philippe ; Purcell, Henry ([O.1]composer)
; Tate, Nahum ([O.1]librettist) ; Purcell, Henry ([O.2]composer) ;
Cowley, Abraham ([O.2]author of text) ; Purcell, Henry ([O.3]composer)
; Tate, Nahum ([O.3]author of text) ; Campion, Thomas ([O.4]composer)
; Rosseter, Philipp ([O.5]composer) ; Campion, Thomas ([O.5]author
of text) ; Dowland, John ([O.6]composer) ; Morley, Thomas ([O.7]composer)
; Purcell, Henry ([O.8]composer) ; Betterton, Thomas ([O.8]librettist)
; Fletcher, John ([O.8]author of text) ; Massinger, Philipp
([O.8]author of text) ; Presenter, Tétart, Philippe ;
Presenter, Le Bail, Karine ; Interpreter, Terrier, Marc (counter
tenor) ; Interpreter, Lesther, Harold (harpsichord) ; Interpreter,
Deller, Alfred (counter tenor) ; Interpreter, Lester, Harold
(harpsichord) ; Interpreter, Ensemble Deller Consort de Ashford
(vocal and instrumental ensemble) ; Participant, Coutaz, Bernard
Context: Karin LE BAIL présente la seconde émission
d'une série de deux consacrée au haute contre anglais
Alfred Deller. Ses propos alternent avec la diffusion de documents
d'archives et d'oeuvres musicales.
Producer summary:
The Deller Consort [2]. Concert d'archives
Last week we drew the portrait of Alfred Deller, father of the
renaissance of baroque music and, more broadly, of early music.
This week, we are offering you an archive concert. The opportunity
to remember even better all the extent of the talent of the baroque
factory of the Deller family... Good listening!
The counter-tenor Alfred Deller was born in Margate, Kent (England),
on 31 May 1912. As a child, he sang as a soprano in church choirs.
Very early he felt the difference of his voice: indeed, at the end
of childhood, he realized that if he lost his soprano range, it
remained acute and surprisingly elastic. Only he then forged a voice
of counter-tenor, tessitura disappeared for nearly two centuries...
In 1940 he joined the choir of the Cathedral of Canterbury. He
remained there until 1947. Meanwhile, in 1943, Michael Tippett, who
noted his gifts, his particularity, made him make his debut in
London. The young solo counter-tenor is discovered by the public
in the repertoire of Purcell. His career, laid on the baptismal
font of the baroque repertoire, English musicians of the XVIeme and
XVIIème centuries, seems at once promising. In 1946, he
received critical acclaim for his first radio broadcasts. Three
years later, having become a member of the Church of St Paul's in
London, he participated in his first recording ('Music for a while'
by Henry Purcell for His Master's Voice Recordings), with Walter
Bergmann. But even before that, in 1948, he founded the Deller
Consort with lutenist Desmond Dupré with whom he collaborated
closely and recorded his second record, devoted to John Dowland (78
rpm also released by HMVR in 1949). His recordings contribute to
the rediscovery of early music: he recorded Purcell and Dowland,
but also Ciconia, Dunstable, Dufay, Gabrieli, Campion...). His
career took an international turn in the mid-1950s, at the same
time as he recorded his 'English folk songs' for Vanguard (1956).
The tours, until 1979, are organized in particular of the work of
exhumation of the baroque repertoire (in the broad sense however,
because it overflows before and after the Elizabethan era, with
researches on the eighteenth century, on the modern period but also
the High Middle Ages) which is being conducted by the Deller Consort.
Without disdaining escapades towards contemporary music (in 1960,
he sang the role of Oberon, in ' A Midsummer Night's Dream, a role
that Britten wrote especially for him), so he participated essentially
in the awakening of the baroque repertoire, This repertoire, which
is recognized mainly in the 1960s and 1970s, was accompanied by
tours of some 50 records recorded by Harmonia Mundi between 1968
and 1979. (the earlier discography is made by Vanguard and Amadeo
in particular), festivals (Les Baux, Avignon pour 'l'âge d'or'
in the Vaucluse of Deller) and the Académie d'été
de musique anglaise where Alfred Deller and his son Mark (member
of the ' Deller from 1964) teach their knowledge and teach, first
at the Abbey of Sénanque, then at Lacoste.
Surrounded by lutenists Desmond Dupré, then Robert Spencer,
harpsichordist Harold Lester, singers and singers Honor Sheppard,
Maurice Bevan, Mark Deller among others, he was thus, from the 1940s
to the 1970s, at the heart of the rehabilitation of baroque music.
Music to which, from the late 1940s, he gave his own touch: finesse
and lightness of interpretation, freedom with rhythm; so many
qualities forcing, with the happiness that we know, to rethink
ancient music in an original way, respectful of the 'letter' and
yet fresh and spontaneous, in a living word, for a repertoire that
was given for dead
Alfred Deller died on 16 July 1979 in Bologna, Italy.
Our two programmes, illustrated by the Radio France / INA
documents, allow us to find the Deller Consort in the following
archives:
- Les Samedis d'été de France Culture: concert of the
Deller Consort' at the Abbey of Sénanque, Gordes, 1 August
1970
- 'Festival d'Avignon: concert of the Deller Consort', 6 August
1973
- ' Récital Alfred Deller ' at the Salle Gaveau, Paris, 18
February 1977
- 'Music to discover: concert of the Deller Consort' at the Grand
Auditorium of Radio France, 25 November 1977.
- 'Concert du Deller Consort' recorded at the Eglise des Blancs
Manteaux, Paris, Paris, 6 June 1978
Summary: Program presented by Karine Le Bail. Second part of two
programs devoted to the high-end Alfred DELLER.
Bernard COUTAZ, director of Harmonia Mundi
- at 1'20: The first time he heard Alfred Deller in Avignon. He
tells how he immediately signed Deller for Harmonia Mundi.
- at 8'50: Alfred's loyalty Deller to Harmonia Mundi and his own
musicians.
- at 18'10 and 32'00: Replay of an excerpt from interpretation
courses by Alfred Deller around "Dido and Aeneas" by Henry Purcell,
given in 1977 salle Gaveau in Paris.
MORE INA RECORDS & ARCHIVES
Name of works:
O.1. Dido and Aeneas (Dido and Aeneas) Z 626 (excerpt): When I am
ugly (Act III) Air de Didon (Lamento
to 11:00:00 - 00:07:45
Henry Purcell (composer); Nahum Tate (librettist)
Interpretation course given by Alfred Deller in 1977 Gaveau Hall,
Paris. Archive INA 77M1132A056.
Dido and Aeneas (Dido and Aeneas) Z 626 (excerpt): When I am ugly
(Act III) Air de Didon (Lamento de Didon)
O.2. If ever I more riches did desire Z 544 (excerpt): Here let
my life
to 11:00:00 - 00:02:31
Henry Purcell (composer); Abraham Cowley (text writer)
for counter-tenor and harpsichord
O.3. Ode on Queen Mary's birthday: Celebrate this festival Z 321
(excerpt): Crown the altar
to 11:00:00 - 00:02:31
Henry Purcell (composer); Nahum Tate (text writer)
for counter-tenor and harpsichord
O.4. Shall I come sweet love to thee
to 11:00:00 - 00:02:58
Thomas Campion (composer)
for counter-tenor and harpsichord
O.5. What then is love but mourning
to 11:00:00 - 00:02:22
Philipp Rosseter (composer); Thomas Campion (text writer)
for counter-tenor and harpsichord
O.6. Flow my tears fall from your springs
to 11:00:00 - 00:05:16
John Dowland (composer)
for counter-tenor and harpsichord
O.7. Maintenant est l'mois de maying
to 11:00:00 - 00:02:31
Thomas Morley (composer)
for vocal and instrumental ensemble
O.8. The Prophetess or the history of Dioclesian Z 627 (excerpt):
Since from my dear Astrea's sight
to 11:00:00 - 00:03:47
Henry Purcell (composer); Thomas Betterton (librettist); John
Fletcher (text writer); Philipp Massinger (text author)
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