The Three Ravens / The Wraggle-Taggle Gypsies

amuletts — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 23:38:04 +0000

“wonderfully fresh and immediate in sound, with no ambience that spoils the feeling of having the singer almost at one’s side… intimate and natural, sympathetic without being reverberant….all with a taste for early music, so much of which was being rediscovered at that time. And it was a good time: not so knowledgeable and experienced as the present, but more spontaneous, less doctrinaire in style” John Steane (Gramophone)

(Deller Sings FolkSongs)

1. The Three Ravens 3:22
2. The Cuckoo 1:44
3. How Should I Your True Love Know
(Ophelia’s song from Hamlet) 1:43
4. Sweet Nightingale 2:17
5. I Will Give My Love an Apple 1:44
6. The Oak and the Ash 2:23
7. King Henry 2:43
8. Coventry Carol 2:19
9. Barbara Allen 2:10
10. Heigh Ho, the Wind and the Rain (Twelfth Night) 1:58
11. Waly, Waly 3:02
12. Down in Yon Forest 2:14
13. Matthew, Mark, Luke and John 3:07
14. The Tailor and the Mouse 1:34
15. Greensleeves 2:18
16. The Wraggle Taggle Gypsies 3:15
17. Lord Rendall 5:39
18. Sweet Jane 2:39
19. The Frog and the Mouse 1:47
20. The Seeds of Love 3:53
21. Flowers in the Valley 2:17
22. Near London Town 3:05
23. O Who’s Going to Shoe Your Pretty Little Foot 1:36
24. Blow Away the Morning Dew 3:16
25. Searching for Lambs 2:17
26. Sweet England 2:58
27. Dabbling in the Dew 2:00
28. Strawberry Fair 2:12
29. Just as the Tide Was a-Flowing 2:24

The Art of Alfred Deller

amuletts — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 23:35:50 +0000

*** “In songs which demand a simple line, his sweet pure tone is ravishing and the performances are all glorious examples… with the songs played in groups, Deller’s lovely tone and natural artistry will give great pleasure…” Penguin Guide on The Three Ravens

“Alfred Deller’s singing is beguiling and timeless. … Music for a while [is] from a number of songs which exhibit his essential mastery: everything from accuracy of pitching and magical floating phrases to subtlety of colour and expressive resource.” — Gramophone

Alfred Deller’s recorded career could only have developed in the way that it did at a label like Vanguard with its founder and owner Seymour Solomon at its helm. Independent record labels, like most small businesses, thrive on a connection between an owner and their obsessions. Seymour Solomon loved baroque and renaissance music at a time when the World’s exposure to music of those eras was generally much more narrow than now. Today’s landscape reveals concrete superhighways to Hildegard von Bingen where there were once cow paths.

It is quite a feat to distill this monumental body of work into one CD. Luckily, Solomon and Deller already did the work with a double LP, The Art of Alfred Deller, which provided the basis for this selection covering as it does the range of his work.

TRADITIONAL SONGS
The Three Ravens / The Cuckoo / Barbara Allen / Hey, Ho, the Wind and the Rain / I Will Give My Love an Apple / The Oak and the Ash / King Henry / Greensleeves

ENGLISH MADRIGALS & AIRS
Anon.: Sumer is icumen in / Morley: Now is the Month of Maying / Byrd: Come, Pretty Babe / Wilbye: Thus Saith My Cloris Bright / Weelkes: To Shorten Winter’s Sadness / Parsons: Pandolpho / Morley: In Dew of Roses / Handel: Eternal Source of Light Divine

EUROPEAN VOCAL MUSIC
Lasso: Matona Mia Cara / Monteverdi: Lasciate Mi Morire / Passereau: Il est Bel et Bon / Saracini: Da Te Parto / Josquin: Deploration de Jehan Okeghem / Schütz: Erhöre Mich

VOCAL MUSIC OF PURCELL
Music for a While / I Attempt from Love’s Sickness to Fly / Sound the Trumpet / Secrecie’s Song / Mystery’s Song / Fairest Isle / If Music be the Food of Love

Recorded 1954-1966
Vanguard discography included

Alfred Deller – Alto CD

The Three Ravens / The Wraggle-Taggle Gypsies

The Art of Alfred Deller