Album Summary
Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
Harry Gabb (Organ)
Wilfred Brown (Tenor)
Eileen McLoughlin (Soprano)
April Cantelo (Soprano)
David Ward (Bass)
Gustav Leonhardt (Organ)
Marie Leonhardt (Violin)
Robert Scheiwein (Cello)
George Malcolm (Harpsichord)
Mark Deller (Countertenor)
Desmond Dupré (Lute)
Anonymous
Anonymous, Codex Bamberg
Matteo da Perugia (1380 - 1410)
François Couperin (1668 - 1733)
Lodovico Grossi (AKA "Viandana") (1564 - 1645)
Claudio Saracini (1586 - 1650)
Giovanni Pietro Berti (died 1638)
Cipriano de Rore (circa 1515 - 1565)
Anonymous, French
Jehan Vaillant (circa 1330 - bef 1400)
Guillaume de Machaut (circa 1300 - 1377)
Michel-Richard Delalande (1657 - 1726)
Heinrich Schütz (1585 - 1672)
Marco da Gagliano (1582 - 1643)
Baldassare Donato (circa 1525-1530 - 1606)
Pérotin (circa 1160 - circa 1230)
Solage (circa 1360 - circa 1410)
Magister Grimace (13th Century - fl. 1350-1375)
Claudio Monteverdi (1567 - 1643)
Giulio Caccini (1551 - 1618)
Alessandro Scarlatti (1660 - 1725)
Giaches de Wert (1535 - 1596)
Notes & Reviews:
These landmark recordings of French and Italian Renaissance music led the Early Music movement into previously uncharted territory. These ground breaking recordings of Monteverdi, including sacred works and madrigals helped to establish Alfred Deller and the Deller Consort as one of the world's finest musical ensembles. This music has never before been on CD and they include the contents of all of the original LPs.
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Works Details
Anonymous : Pater noster commiserans, conductus - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 5 min. 35 sec.
Anonymous, French : Dic Christi vernal, conductus (attr. Philippe le Chancelier) - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 2 min. 44 sec.
Anonymous : Alleluja christus resurgens with clausula, Mors (Hallelujah for the fourth Sunday after Easter) - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 4 min. 14 sec.
Pérotin (circa 1160 - circa 1230) : Alleluia nativitas - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 6 min. 54 sec.
- Period Time: Medieval
- Form: Choral
- Written: circa 1200
Anonymous : Hoquetus - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Ensemble: Concentus Musicus Wien
- Running Time: 1 min. 2 sec.
Anonymous : Amor potest conqueri, motet - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Ensemble: Concentus Musicus Wien
- Running Time: 1 min. 15 sec.
- Period Time: Renaissance
- Form: Choral
Anonymous, Codex Bamberg : In seculum d'Amiens longum - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Ensemble: Concentus Musicus Wien
Anonymous : El Mois de mai - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Ensemble: Concentus Musicus Wien
- Running Time: 1 min. 3 sec.
Anonymous : La Manfredina et la Rotta - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Ensemble: Concentus Musicus Wien
- Running Time: 1 min. 15 sec.
- Period Time: Renaissance
Vaillant, Jehan : Par maintes foys, virelai - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Ensemble: Concentus Musicus Wien
- Running Time: 3 min. 26 sec.
- Period Time: Medieval
- Form: Vocal
- Written: circa 1360-1390
Solage : Plusiers gens voy for 4 voices - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Ensemble: Concentus Musicus Wien
- Running Time: 2 min. 2 sec.
- Period Time: Medieval
Perugia, Matteo da : Ne me chaut, virelai (Modena Bibl. Estense aM.5.24) - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Ensemble: Concentus Musicus Wien
- Running Time: 1 min. 42 sec.
- Period Time: Medieval
Machaut, Guillaume de : S'il estoit nulz/S'amours tous/Et gaudebit - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Ensemble: Concentus Musicus Wien
- Running Time: 1 min. 54 sec.
- Period Time: Medieval
- Form: Choral
- Written: 13th Century
Machaut, Guillaume de : Comment qu'a moy lonteinne, virelai for voice - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Ensemble: Concentus Musicus Wien
- Running Time: 1 min. 52 sec.
- Period Time: Medieval
- Written: by 1340
Perugia, Matteo da : Andray soulet au mielz que je pouray, canon - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Ensemble: Concentus Musicus Wien
- Period Time: Medieval
Anonymous : Or sus, vous dormés trop - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Ensemble: Concentus Musicus Wien
- Running Time: 4 min. 21 sec.
- Period Time: Renaissance
- Written: 13th Century
Solage : Hélas, je voy mon cuer - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Ensemble: Concentus Musicus Wien
- Running Time: 2 min. 7 sec.
- Period Time: Medieval
Grimace, Magister : A L'Arme, A L'Arme, virelai for 4 voices - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Ensemble: Concentus Musicus Wien
- Running Time: 1 min. 57 sec.
- Period Time: Medieval
Machaut, Guillaume de : Messe de Nostre Dame - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 24 min. 49 sec.
- Period Time: Medieval
- Form: Choral
- Written: circa 1364
Pérotin (circa 1160 - circa 1230) : Viderunt omnes - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 10 min. 54 sec.
- Period Time: Medieval
- Written: 1198
Pérotin (circa 1160 - circa 1230) : Sederunt principes - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 10 min. 43 sec.
- Period Time: Medieval
- Written: 1199
François Couperin (1668 - 1733) : Leçons de Ténèbres, for treble voice (or 2 treble voices) & continuo - Performers: Alfred Deller (Countertenor); Desmond Dupré (Lute); Harry Gabb (Organ); Wilfred Brown (Tenor)
- Running Time: 44 min. 15 sec.
- Period Time: Baroque
- Written: circa 1712
Delalande, Michel-Richard : De profundis, grand motet, S. 23 - Conductor: Alfred Deller
- Ensemble: Deller Consort
- Running Time: 30 min. sec.
- Period Time: Baroque
- Form: Choral
- Written: 1689
Monteverdi, Claudio : Madrigali guerrieri, et amorosi... Libro ottavo - Performers: Eileen McLoughlin (Soprano); April Cantelo (Soprano); David Ward (Bass); Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Conductor: Alfred Deller
- Ensemble: London Chamber Players
- Period Time: Baroque
- Form: Ballet
- Written: 1638
Grossi, Lodovico : Exaudi Me Domine (Cento Concerto Ecclesiastici, Venice, 1602) - Performers: Alfred Deller (Countertenor); Gustav Leonhardt (Organ)
- Running Time: 3 min. 30 sec.
- Period Time: Baroque
- Written: 1602
Heinrich Schütz (1585 - 1672) : In te, Domine, speravi, motet for alto, violin, basson or trombone & continuo, SWV 259 (Op. 6/3) - Performers: Marie Leonhardt (Violin); Gustav Leonhardt (Organ); Robert Scheiwein (Cello); Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 5 min. 25 sec.
- Period Time: Baroque
- Form: Orchestral
Caccini, Giulio : Pien d'amoroso affetto - Performers: George Malcolm (Harpsichord); Alfred Deller (Countertenor); Desmond Dupré (Lute)
- Running Time: 3 min. 26 sec.
- Period Time: Renaissance
Saracini, Claudio : Pallidetto qual viola - Performers: Alfred Deller (Countertenor); George Malcolm (Harpsichord); Desmond Dupré (Lute)
- Running Time: 1 min. 6 sec.
- Period Time: Baroque
Caccini, Giulio : Amarilli mia bella, for voice & continuo (from Le nuove musiche) - Performers: Alfred Deller (Countertenor); George Malcolm (Harpsichord); Desmond Dupré (Lute)
- Running Time: 3 min. 11 sec.
- Period Time: Renaissance
- Written: 1601
Gagliano, Marco da : Valli profonde, song - Performers: Alfred Deller (Countertenor); Desmond Dupré (Lute); George Malcolm (Harpsichord)
- Running Time: 4 min. 48 sec.
- Period Time: Baroque
Scarlatti, Alessandro : Work(s) :: Difesa non ha - Performers: Desmond Dupré (Lute); George Malcolm (Harpsichord); Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 1 min. 53 sec.
- Period Time: Baroque
Scarlatti, Alessandro : Work(s) :: O, cessate di piagarmi - Performers: Alfred Deller (Countertenor); Desmond Dupré (Lute); George Malcolm (Harpsichord)
- Running Time: 2 min. 59 sec.
- Period Time: Baroque
Scarlatti, Alessandro : Work(s) :: Belleza che s'ama - Performers: Alfred Deller (Countertenor); George Malcolm (Harpsichord); Desmond Dupré (Lute)
- Running Time: 1 min. 21 sec.
- Period Time: Baroque
Berti, Giovanni Pietro : Da grave incendio, for voice & continuo - Performers: George Malcolm (Harpsichord); Desmond Dupré (Lute); Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 5 min. 10 sec.
- Period Time: Renaissance
Scarlatti, Alessandro : Work(s) :: O dolcissima speranza - Performers: Alfred Deller (Countertenor); George Malcolm (Harpsichord); Desmond Dupré (Lute)
- Running Time: 1 min. 50 sec.
- Period Time: Baroque
Saracini, Claudio : Da te parto - Performers: Alfred Deller (Countertenor); George Malcolm (Harpsichord); Desmond Dupré (Lute)
- Running Time: 3 min. 11 sec.
- Period Time: Baroque
Donato, Baldassare : Dolce mio ben, song - Performers: Alfred Deller (Countertenor); George Malcolm (Harpsichord); Desmond Dupré (Lute)
- Running Time: 2 min. 53 sec.
- Period Time: Renaissance
Scarlatti, Alessandro : Work(s) :: La speranza mi tradisce - Performers: Alfred Deller (Countertenor); Desmond Dupré (Lute); George Malcolm (Harpsichord)
- Running Time: 1 min. 31 sec.
- Period Time: Baroque
Wert, Giaches de : Dunque basciar si bell'e dolce labbia, for 4 voices - Performers: Desmond Dupré (Lute); Alfred Deller (Countertenor); George Malcolm (Harpsichord)
- Running Time: 2 min. 29 sec.
- Period Time: Renaissance
- Written: 1561
Rore, Cipriano de : Anchor che col partire, madrigal - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 4 min. 17 sec.
- Period Time: Renaissance
- Form: Choral
- Written: 1547
Heinrich Schütz (1585 - 1672) : Kleine geistliche Konzerte, Op. 8 - Performers: Alfred Deller (Countertenor); Mark Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 2 min. 52 sec.
- Period Time: Baroque
Monteverdi, Claudio : Currite populi, psallite timpanis, motet for tenor, SV 297 - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 3 min. 20 sec.
- Period Time: Baroque
- Written: circa 1625
Heinrich Schütz (1585 - 1672) : Gross ist der Herr, for chorus & continuo, SWV 145 (Op. 5/49, Op. 14/49) - Performers: Alfred Deller (Countertenor); Mark Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 2 min. 34 sec.
- Period Time: Baroque
Monteverdi, Claudio : Angelus ad pastores ait, motet for 3 voices (from Sacrae cantiunculae), SV 222 - Performers: Alfred Deller (Countertenor); Mark Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 1 min. 27 sec.
- Period Time: Baroque
- Form: Choral
- Written: circa 1582
Monteverdi, Claudio : Fugge, anima mea, mundum, motet for soprano, alto & violin, SV 305 - Performers: Mark Deller (Countertenor); Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 4 min. 41 sec.
- Period Time: Baroque
- Form: Choral
- Written: circa 1620
Monteverdi, Claudio : Salve Regina, motet for tenor, SV 327 - Performer: Alfred Deller (Countertenor)
- Running Time: 4 min. 52 sec.
- Period Time: Baroque
- Form: Choral
- Written: circa 1625

























