Henry Purcell: Music for a While:

Description

Alfred Deller tirelessly promoted his core repertoire of Elizabethan lute songs and Purcell throughout his career. This recital anthology was recorded at Provence only three months before Deller’s death at Bologna on 16 July 1979. Some of the most familiar songs here, such as ‘Fairest Isle’, were originally conceived as operatic music for soprano voice but one cannot imagine that Purcell would have minded Deller taking the music out of context, adapting if desirable and making it his own. Available on vinyl remastered from the original tapes.

Tracklisting

Disc 1
1. The Plaint (Henry Purcell) – Alfred Deller
2. If Music Be the Food of Love (Henry Purcell) – Alfred Deller/William Christie/Wieland Kuijken
3. I Attempt from Love’s Sickness (Henry Purcell) – Alfred Deller/William Christie/Wieland Kuijken
4. Fairest Isle (Henry Purcell) – Alfred Deller/William Christie/Wieland Kuijken
5. Sweeter Than Roses (Henry Purcell) – Alfred Deller
6. Not All My Torments (Henry Purcell) – Alfred Deller
7. Thrice Happy Lovers (Henry Purcell) – Alfred Deller
8. An Evening Hymn (Henry Purcell) – Alfred Deller
9. From Rosy Bow’rs (Henry Purcell) – Alfred Deller/William Christie/Wieland Kuijken
10. O Lead Me to Some Peaceful Gloom (Henry Purcell) – Alfred Deller
11. Retired from Any Mortal’s Sight (Henry Purcell) – Alfred Deller
12. Music for a While (Henry Purcell) – Alfred Deller
13. Since from My Dear Astrea’s Sight (Henry Purcell) – Alfred Deller
14. O Solitude (Henry Purcell) – Alfred Deller