Alfred Deller - Campion, Purcell, Buxtehude (CD)

For music-lovers who grew up between the 1950s and the 1970s, Alfred Deller (1912–1979) was the embodiment of the countertenor voice, just as Segovia was the guitar and Casals was the cello. Many who heard his earliest LPs will have applauded the words that Sir Michael Tippett uttered on first hearing Deller live, as early as 1944: "In that moment, the centuries rolled back." Two of those early LPs – or portions of them – are newly remastered and reissued here in a unique compilation.

TRACK LIST

DIETERICH BUXTEHUDE (?1637–1707)

Jubilate Domino, BuxWV 64
Alfred Deller, countertenor · Eli Goren, Leonard Friedman, violins
Anna Shuttleworth, cello · Desmond Dupré, viola da gamba

Fugue in C major, BuxWV 174
Denis Vaughan, organ

In dulci jubilo, BuxWV 52
Eileen McLoughlin, soprano · Alfred Deller, countertenor · Maurice Bevan, bass-baritone
Eli Goren, Leonard Friedman, violins · Anna Shuttleworth, cello
Desmond Dupré, viola da gamba · Denis Vaughan, organ

FRANCESCO CANOVA DA MILANO (1497–1543)

Lute Fantasias Nos. 30 and 40 (ed. A.J. Ness)
Lute Fantasia (unnumbered)°

Desmond Dupré, lute

THOMAS CAMPION (1567–1620)

Never Weather-beaten Sail
Most Sweet and Pleasing are Thy ways, O God
Author of Light
To music bent

ANONYMOUS (attrib. CAMPION)

Miserere my Maker (c. 1615)

Alfred Deller, countertenor · Desmond Dupré, lute

HENRY PURCELL (1659–1695)

Come, Ye Sons of Art, Z. 323*
Margaret Ritchie, soprano · Alfred Deller, John Whitworth, countertenors · Bruce Boyce, baritone
St. Anthony Singers · Ensemble Orchestral de L’Oiseau-Lyre
Anthony Lewis

° PREVIOUSLY UNPUBLISHED