Artist: Alfred Deller
Album: Purcell: Music for a while (Remastered)
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 1979/2019
Audio Format:: FLAC (tracks) 24 bit, 96 kHz
Duration: 49:43
Total Tracks: 13
Total Size: 848 MB

Tracklist:

1. Alfred Deller – The Plaint, Z. 629/40 (07:34)
2. Alfred Deller – If music be the food of love, Z. 379 (02:27)
3. Alfred Deller – The Indian Queen: I attempt from love’s sickness (02:03)
4. Alfred Deller – Fairest Isle, Z. 628/38 (02:49)
5. Alfred Deller – Sweeter Than Roses, Z. 585/1 (03:23)
6. Alfred Deller – Not All My Torments Can Your Pity Move, Z. 400 (02:01)
7. Alfred Deller – The Fairy Queen, Z. 629/39: Thrice Happy Lovers (02:57)
8. Alfred Deller – An Evening Hymn, Z. 193 (05:08)
9. Alfred Deller – From Rosy Bow’rs, Z. 578 (07:16)
10. Alfred Deller – O Lead Me to Some Peaceful Gloom, Z. 574 (02:58)
11. Alfred Deller – Retired from Any Mortal’s Sight, Z. 581 (02:56)
12. Alfred Deller – Music for a While, Z. 583 (04:05)
13. Alfred Deller – Since from My Dear Astrea’s Sight, Z. 627 (04:00)

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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.