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.
Many of the recordings included in this collection are definitive interpretations of vocal music of the English Renaissance, and most of these recordings are historic. Alfred Deller and Vanguard Records were at the forefront of historically informed performances of early music, and the results of that collaboration bore full fruit when focused on the music of the composers included here. This extensive collection includes the first recording of a Bach cantata using original instruments, numerous premiere recordings of the works of Byrd, Tallis and the composers of the English Renaissance and the first complete recording of Handel’s Alexander’s Feast. This set also includes five Tallis hymns never before released on CD, performed by the Deller Consort.
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