Description
Alfred Deller (countertenor) tirelessly promoted his core repertoire of Elizabethan lute songs and Henry Purcell throughout his carrer. This recital anthology entitled Music for a While was recorded at Provence only three months before Deller’s death at Bologna on 16 July 1979. Featuring Wieland Kuijken on viola da gamba, William Christie on harpsichord, and Roderick Skeaping on baroque violin, 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.
To mark the 40th anniversary of Alfred Deller's death, the original analogue tape of Music for a While from 1979 was carefully remastered in 2019 and released in the original LP covers.
1. An Evening Hymn, Z. 193
