Alfred Deller: The Complete Vanguard RecordingsAlfred Deller: The Complete Vanguard RecordingsCatalog Number–MC195
Number of Discs–6
Over Six Hours of Music
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 brings together Alfred Deller's Vanguard recvordings of music by Georg Frideric Handel, Johnann Sebastian Bach, and English masters.
The Connoisseur's Handel
Handel: Coronation Anthems
Handel: Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne
Handel: Alexander's Feast
Bach: Cantatas 54 & 170
Elizabethan and Jacobean Music
Thomas Tallis: The Lamentations of Jeremiah the Prophet, Part I
William Byrd and His Age
Deller's Choice (selections)
Duets for Countertenors (selections)
Alfred Deller, countertenor
Gustav Leonhardt, harpsichord and organ
The Deller Consort
The Handel Festival Orchestra
Leonhardt Baroque Ensemble
Oriana Concert Choir and Orchestra
Wenzinger Consort of Viols of the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis
Alfred Deller, Sir Anthony Lewis, conductors