Alfred Deller: The Complete Vanguard RecordingsAlfred Deller: The Complete Vanguard RecordingsCatalog Number–MC194
Number of Discs–6
Duration–6:09:54
Price (includes domestic shipping)–USA$36.00
Price (outside USA, includes shipping)–USA$44.00
Musical Concepts is pleased to announce the second release in one of the most ambitious early music reissue projects of all time — Alfred Deller: The Complete Vanguard Recordings. The series brings together every recording made by Alfred Deller – as solo countertenor, ensemble member of the Deller Consort, and conductor – for the legendary, enterprising Vanguard record label. These recordings created a sensation with their initial release, and have influenced and inspired three generations of music lovers, from casual listeners to the top tiers of performing artists and scholars.
Vanguard's "Bach Guild" created a sensation starting in the mid-1950s with their revelatory recordings of British composer Henry Purcell, undertaken by the partnership of the label's enterprising founder Seymour Solomon and countertenor Alfred Deller, whose strong affinity for Purcell's music brought this then-rare repertoire to life and greatly intensified interest in a composer now seen as not only one of the most important British composers of all time but a Baroque firebrand whose highly original music achieves some of the highest artistic marks of the era.
The present collection combines his six recordings of folk music on the "Vanguard Recording Society" label – including the Tavern Songs and Cries of London in their first CD release – with related music recorded for Vanguard's "Bach Guild" label, including English Lute Songs, which here marks its first appearance on CD.
Homage to Henry Purcell
Music of Purcell
Dido and Aeneas
Ode for Saint Cecilia's Day
Welcome to All the Pleasures
The Masque in Dioclesian
Come Ye Sons of Art
Alfred Deller, countertenor
George Malcolm, Gustav Leonhardt, harpsichord
The Deller Consort – Leonhardt Baroque Ensemble – Oriana Concert Choir and Orchestra – Kalmar Chamber Orchestra –
Concentus Musicus Wien
Alfred Deller, Sir Michael Tippett, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, conductors