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Portrait of a Legend (counter-tenor: Alfred Deller)
2004

CD 1: Opera & Stage Music by Henry Purcell
#    Title    Time    Info  
1 The Fairy Queen: Act II. "Come all ye songsters of the Sky" (Stour Music Festival Orchestra & Chorus) 1:57
2 The Fairy Queen: Act II. Prelude (Stour Music Festival Orchestra & Chorus) 0:41
3 The Fairy Queen: Act II. "May the God of Wit inspire" / "While Echo shall in sounds remote" (Stour Music Festival Orchestra & Chorus) 2:05
4 The Fairy Queen: Act III. "Now the Maids and the Men are making of Hay" (Stour Music Festival Orchestra & Chorus) 3:50
5 The Fairy Queen: Act IV. Symphony (Stour Music Festival Orchestra & Chorus) 1:05
6 The Fairy Queen: Act V. "Thus, thus the gloomy World" (Stour Music Festival Orchestra & Chorus) 4:48
7 The Fairy Queen: Act V. "Thus Happy and Free" (Stour Music Festival Orchestra & Chorus) 0:51
8 The Fairy Queen: Act V. "Yes, Xansi, in your Looks I find" (Stour Music Festival Orchestra & Chorus) 2:09
9 The Fairy Queen: Act V. "Monkeys' Dance" (Stour Music Festival Orchestra & Chorus) 0:59
10 King Arthur, or The British Worthy: Act I, Scene 2. "I call ye all" (King's Musick feat. conductor: Alfred Deller, harpsichord: Robert Elliott, viola da gamba: Jane Ryan) 2:30
11 King Arthur, or The British Worthy: Act V, Scene 2. "Fairest Isle" (King's Musick feat. conductor: Alfred Deller, harpsichord: William Christie, viola da gamba: Wieland Kuijken) 2:50
12 The Indian Queen: Act I. "Wake Quivera, wake" (King's Musick feat. conductor: Alfred Deller, harpsichord: Robert Elliott, viola da gamba: Jane Ryan) 2:32
13 The Indian Queen: Act III. "Trumpet Overture" (King's Musick feat. conductor: Alfred Deller, harpsichord: Robert Elliott, viola da gamba: Jane Ryan) 2:42
14 The Indian Queen: Act III. "Ah, how happy are we" / "We the spirits of the air" (King's Musick feat. conductor: Alfred Deller, harpsichord: Robert Elliott, viola da gamba: Jane Ryan) 4:00
15 The Indian Queen: Act III. "I attempt from love's sickness" (King's Musick feat. conductor: Alfred Deller, harpsichord: Robert Elliott, viola da gamba: Jane Ryan) 2:09
16 Olinda in the Shades Unseen, Z. 404 (feat. viola da gamba: Desmond Dupré, harpsichord: Robert Elliott) 2:21
17 The Old Batchelor, Z. 607 No. 10: Thus to a ripe, consenting maid (feat. viola da gamba: Desmond Dupré, harpsichord: Robert Elliott) 2:44
18 O How Happy's He, Z. 403 (feat. viola da gamba: Desmond Dupré, harpsichord: Robert Elliott) 1:18
Total time 41:31
2: Sacred Song
#    Title    Time    Info  
1 Incipit lamentatio Jeremiae prophetae / Leçons de ténèbres: Dernière leçon du Samedi Saint (Deller Consort feat. conductor: Alfred Deller) 5:04
2 Te lucis ante terminum "Procul recedant somnia", P 214 (Deller Consort feat. conductor: Alfred Deller) 2:11
3 Leçons de ténèbres: Deuxième Leçon à une voix (feat. organ: Michel Chapuis, viola da gamba: Raphael Perulli) 13:20
4 Cantate Jubilate Domino, BuxWV 64 (feat. organ: Michel Chapuis, viola da gamba: Raphael Perulli) 8:02
5 In Guilty Night "Saul and the Witch of Endor", Z. 134 (feat. baritone: Maurice Bevan, organ: Robert Elliott, soprano: Honor Sheppard, cello: A.R. Shuttleworth) 9:24
6 Great King Of Gods "Lord of Lords" (Jaye Consort of Viols & Deller Consort) 6:04
7 Ave verum corpus (feat. organ: Robert Elliott) 9:01
8 Cantabo Domine (feat. organ: Robert Elliott) 3:23
Total time 56:29
3: Solo Song
#    Title    Time    Info  
1 The Wind and the Rain (feat. lute: Desmond Dupré) 2:29
2 First Book of Ayres: It Was a Lover and His Lass (feat. lute: Desmond Dupré) 2:55
3 The First Booke of Consort Lessons: O Mistress Mine (feat. lute: Desmond Dupré) 1:22
4 Willow Song (feat. lute: Desmond Dupré) 4:54
5 Calleno custure me (feat. lute: Desmond Dupré) 3:09
6 Miserere my Maker (feat. lute: Desmond Dupré) 5:44
7 I Care Not for These Ladies (feat. lute: Desmond Dupré) 1:47
8 Of All the Birds (feat. lute: Desmond Dupré) 1:12
9 What Then Is Love? (feat. lute: Desmond Dupré) 2:20
10 The Self-banish'd (feat. viola da gamba: Desmond Dupré, organ: Robert Elliott) 2:30
11 The Glory of the Arcadian Groves (feat. recorder: David Munrow, viola da gamba: Desmond Dupré, harpsichord: Robert Elliott) 2:10
12 Second Booke of Songes: Fine Knacks for Ladies (feat. lute: Desmond Dupré) 2:33
13 Second Booke of Songes, No. 2: Flow My Tears (feat. lute: Desmond Dupré) 5:37
14 If Music Be the Food of Love, Z. 379 (feat. harpsichord: William Christie, viola da gamba: Wieland Kuijken) 2:24
15 Don Quixote, Z. 578 No. 9: From rosy bow'rs (feat. harpsichord: William Christie, viola da gamba: Wieland Kuijken) 7:15
16 O Solitude, Z. 406 (feat. viola da gamba: Jane Ryan, organ: Robert Elliott) 5:57
17 Nuove musiche (1614): Pien d'amoroso affetto (feat. lute: Desmond Dupré) 3:31
18 Pallidetto qual viola (feat. lute: Desmond Dupré) 1:07
19 Nuove musiche (1602): Amarilli, mia bella (feat. lute: Desmond Dupré) 3:19
20 Infirmata vulnerata (feat. violins: Irvine Arditti & Clarence Myerscough, viola da gamba: Desmond Dupré, harpsichord: Robert Elliott 13:28
Total time 75:43
4: Folksong
#    Title    Time    Info  
1 The Three Ravens (feat. lute: Desmond Dupré) 2:52
2 Black Is the Colour of My True Love's Hair (feat. lute: Desmond Dupré) 1:53
3 Canzonets to Two Voices: Sweet Nymph, Come to Thy Lover (feat. counter-tenor: Mark Deller, lute: Desmond Dupré) 1:41
4 Canzonets to Two Voices: I Go Before My Darling (feat. lute: Desmond Dupré) 1:26
5 The Oak and the Ash (feat. lute: Desmond Dupré) 3:11
6 Barbara Allen (feat. lute: Desmond Dupré) 2:36
7 Lord Randall (feat. lute: Desmond Dupré) 4:04
8 The Water Is Wide (feat. lute: Desmond Dupré) 2:35
9 The Tailor and the Mouse (feat. lute: Desmond Dupré) 1:31
10 Down by the Sally Garden's (feat. lute: Desmond Dupré) 2:21
11 I Will Give My Love an Apple (feat. lute: Desmond Dupré) 1:47
12 Canzonets to Two Voices: Miraculous Love's Wounding (feat. counter-tenor: Mark Deller, lute: Desmond Dupré) 2:57
13 A Musicall Dreame: Sweet Kate (feat. counter-tenor: Mark Deller, lute: Desmond Dupré) 1:36
14 Bushes and Briars (feat. lute: Desmond Dupré) 2:36
15 The Foggy, Foggy Dew (feat. lute: Desmond Dupré) 2:10
16 She Moved Through the Fair (feat. lute: Desmond Dupré) 3:44
17 The Evening Prayer (feat. lute: Desmond Dupré) 1:00
Total time 40:00



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