Shakespeare Songs (Alfred Deller album)

Shakespeare Songs
Studio album by
Alfred Deller
Released1967
RecordedSeptember 1966
StudioAll Saints' Church, Boughton Aluph
GenreClassical music
ProducerPeter Willemoës

Shakespeare Songs is a 1967 LP album of Elizabethan songs which is one of the most celebrated recordings of the countertenor Alfred Deller.[1][2][3][4] Deller is accompanied by lutenist Desmond Dupré and the Deller Consort, Philip Todd and Max Worthley tenors, Maurice Bevan baritone.[5]

The album includes both anonymous songs adapted by Shakespeare, such as the Willow song, and also songs by Shakespeare's contemporaries which may have been written for his plays. Robert Johnson, a composer and lutenist who set two songs from The Tempest, is known to have worked for Shakespeare's company the King's Men, whereas Thomas Morley's setting of "It Was A Lover And His Lass" from As You Like It, is not known to have been performed in the play, but may have been.

Track list

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  1. – Thomas Morley "It Was A Lover And His Lass" 2:53 from As You Like It V, 3
  2. – John Wilson "Take, O Take Those Lips Away" 1:31 Measure for Measure, IV, 1
  3. – Thomas Morley "O Mistress Mine" 1:21 Twelfth Night, II, 3
  4. – Thomas Weelkes "Strike It Up, Tabor" 1:38 -
  5. – Anonymous "Willow song" 4:53 Othello, IV, 3
  6. – Robert Johnson "Where The Bee Sucks" 1:20 The Tempest, VI, 1
  7. – Anonymous "How Should I Your True Love Know?" 1:49 Hamlet IV, 5
  8. – Francis Cutting "Walsingham variations" 2:57 instrumental
  9. – Anonymous "We Be Soldiers Three" 1:56
  10. – Anonymous "When Griping Griefs" 2:58 Romeo and Juliet, IV, 5
  11. – Robert Johnson "Full Fathom Five" 1:57 The Tempest, I, 2
  12. – Anonymous "Caleno custure me" 3:10 Henry V (play), not sung but mentioned at IV, 4
  13. – Anonymous "Then They For Sudden Joy Did Weep" 1:22 King Lear, I
  14. – Anonymous "Bonny Sweet Robin" 0:44 instrumental
  15. – Anonymous The Wind and the Rain "When that I was a little tiny boy" 2:27 Twelfth Night, V, 1
  16. – Anonymous "Kemp's Jig" 0:50 instrumental
  17. – Anonymous "Greensleeves" 3:22
  18. – Anonymous "He That Will An Alehouse Keep" 0:57 from Ravenscroft's Melismas
  19. –William Byrd "Non Nobis Domine" 1:18

References

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  1. ^ Allan Kozinn - The New York Times Essential Library: Classical Music: 1429997710 2004 SHAKESPEARE SONGS AND CONSORT MUSIC ALFRED DELLER, COUNTERTENOR; DESMOND DUPRE, LUTENIST; THE DELLER CONSORT (Harmonia Mundi HMA 195202) Includes William Byrd's Now Nobis Domine; Francis ...
  2. ^ Will There Really Be a Morning?: Life: A Guide 1134137575 Fred Sedgwick - 2013 The first is by the extraordinary countertenor Alfred Deller, and you can find it on Shakespeare's Songs by the Deller Consort, on Harmonia Mundi.
  3. ^ Michael Neill editor William Shakespeare, THE OXFORD SHAKESPEARE: Othello: The Moor of Venice 0199535876 2008 'Shakespeare Songs' Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord HMA 195202 Performers: Alfred Deller (counter-tenor) and ...
  4. ^ Luca Cerchiari, Laurent Cugny, Franz Kerschbaumer Eurojazzland: Jazz and European Sources, Dynamics, and Contexts - 2012 1584658649- ... with singer (countertenor) Alfred Deller for the aforementioned Harmonia Mundi France cd Shakespeare Songs and Consort Music.
  5. ^ Naomi Miller Reimagining Shakespeare for Children and Young Adults -1135363358 2013 Page 73 Note For those who are interested: Shakespeare Songs, performed by Alfred Deller and Desmond Dupre on lute, is released by Harmonia Mundi. France, HMA 190202.
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