Alfred Deller: The Complete Vanguard RecordingsAlfred Deller: The Complete Vanguard RecordingsCatalog Number–MC196
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-1960s 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 Deller Consort was arguably the most influential ensemble in the revival of the madrigal repertoire. Their complete Vanguard recordings of this music are now available together for the first time in a single volume.
Madrigals of Thomas Morley
Madrigals of John Wilbye
The English Madrigal School, Volumes 1 & 2
The Silver Swan
Madrigal Masterpieces, Volumes 1 & 2
Monteverdi: Madrigali Amorosi
Lamento d'Arianna
Alfred Deller, countertenor
The Deller Consort