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Purcell: Music for a while

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Catalogue number33249DI
Release date2019-11-08
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Alfred Deller tirelessly promoted his core repertoire of Elizabethan lute songs and Purcell throughout his carrer. 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.

Tout au long de sa carrière, Alfred Deller a inlassablement défendu les lute songs élisabéthains et Purcell. Cette anthologie sous forme de récital fut enregistrée trois mois seulement avant sa mort, survenue à Bologne le 16 juillet 1979. Certains songs parmi les plus connus – comme "Fairest Isle", avaient été conçus à l'origine pour voix de soprano et pour la scène, mais on ne saurait imaginer que Purcell eût pu objecter à ce que Deller sorte la musique de son contexte pour l'adapter au besoin et, avec l'extraordinaire subtilité qui était la sienne, se l'approprie…
 
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PerformerRoderick Skeaping
Wieland Kuijken
William Christie
ComposerHenry Purcell
SoloistAlfred Deller

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