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Special box-set Alfred Deller, Portrait of a Legend Alfred Deller, Deller Consort, etc.

3h33
Digital
HMX290261.64

Born in 1912 in Margate, Kent (UK), Alfred Deller recorded for harmonia mundi from 1967 until his death in July 1979. These discs, many of them bestsellers (Music for a While, O Solitude), caught the public’s imagination and influenced several generations of musicians. 'We had never heard a male alto before, and now this! A magnificent sound, handled with refinement, effortless, light, ideal for our old instruments; exceptionally individual and used with great expressiveness. To accompany him was sheer pleasure’ (Nikolaus Harnoncourt).

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HENRY PURCELL [1659-1695]
The Fairy Queen
· Act II A fairy Come all ye songsters of the sky (1'57)
· Prelude (0'41)
· Three Elves May the God of Wit inspire / While Echo (2'05)
· Act III. Dialogue Corydon, Mopsa (3'50)
· Act IV. Symphony (1'05)
· Act V. A Chinese Man Thus, thus the gloomy world (4'48)
· A Chinese Woman Thus happy and free (0'51)
· A Chinese Man Yes, Xansi, in your looks I find (2'09)
· Monkey's Dance (0'55)
King Arthur
· Act I, scene 2 I call ye all (2'26)
· Act V, scene 2 Fairest Isle (2'45)
The Indian Queen
Act I. Boy Wake, Quivera, wake

· Act III. Trumpet Overture (2'42)
· Aerial Spirits Ah, how happy are we / We the spirits of the air (4'00)
· Aerial Spirits I attempt from love's sickness (2'02)
Theatre Music
Olinda

· The Old Bachelor Thus to a ripe, consenting maid (2'41)
· Dioclesian O how happy's he (1'18)


ANONYMOUS
· Incipit lamentatio Jeremiae prophetae Dernière Leçon du Samedi Saint (Ténèbres) (1'57)
THOMAS TALLIS [c.1505-1585]
· Te Lucis ante terminum Cantiones sacrae (2'08)
FRANÇOIS COUPERIN [1668-1733]
· Deuxième Leçon de Ténèbres pour le Mercredy (13'17)
DIETRICH BUXTEHUDE [1637-1707]
· Cantate Jubilate Domino (7'58)
HENRY PURCELL [1659-1695]
· Saul and the Witch of Endor In guilty night (9'20)
ORLANDO GIBBONS [1583-1625]
· Great King of Gods (6'00)
GIOVANNI PIERLUIGI DA PALESTRINA [1525-1594]
· Ave verum (8'56)
ALESSANDRO GRANDI
· Cantabo Domine (3'24)


THOMAS MORLEY [1557-1602]
Shakespeare Songs
Twelfth night, V.1 The Wind and the Rain

· As you like it, V.3 It was a lover and his lass (2'55)
· Twelfth night, II.3 O Mistress mine (1'22)
· Othello, IV, 3 Willow song (4'54)
· Henry V, mention in IV, 4 Calleno custure me (3'09)
ANONYMOUS
· Miserere my Maker (5'44)
THOMAS CAMPION [c.1567-1619]
· I care not for these ladies (1'47)
JOHN BARTLET
· Of all the birds (1'10)
PHILIP ROSSETER [1567-1623]
· What then is love (2'17)
JOHN BLOW [1649-1708]
· The Self-Banished (2'27)
JEREMIAH CLARKE [1674-1707]
· The glory of the Arcadian groves (2'07)
JOHN DOWLAND [1562/1563-1626]
· Fine knacks for ladies (2'30)
· Flow my tears (5'33)
HENRY PURCELL [1659-1695]
· If music be the food of love (2'21)
· From rosy bow'rs (7'12)
· O Solitude (5'54)
GIULIO CACCINI [1550-1618]
· Pien d'amoroso affetto (3'31)
CLAUDIO SARACINI
· Pallidetto qual viola (1'04)
GIULIO CACCINI [1550-1618]
· Amarilli, mia belle (3'13)
ALESSANDRO SCARLATTI
· Infirmata vulnerata (13'28)


ANONYMOUS
· The Three Ravens (2'51)
· Black is the colour of my true love's hair (1'54)
THOMAS MORLEY [1557-1602]
· Sweet nymph, come to thy lover (1'41)
· I go before my darling (1'23)
ANONYMOUS
· The Oak and the Ash (3'08)
· Barbara Allen (2'30)
· Lord Rendall (4'04)
· The water is wide (2'32)
· The Tailor and the Mouse (1'28)
· Down by the sally gardens (2'18)
· I will give my love an apple (1'45)
THOMAS MORLEY [1557-1602]
· Miraculous Love's wounding (2'55)
ROBERT JONES [-1615]
· Sweet Kate (1'35)
ANONYMOUS
· Bushes and Briars (2'34)
· The Foggy, Foggy Dew (2'08)
· She moved through the fair (3'39)
· Evening Prayer (1'02)

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