Alfred Deller
Alfred George Deller, CBE (31 May 1912 – 16 July 1979), was an English singer and one of the main figures in popularising the return of the countertenor voice in Renaissance and Baroque music during the 20th century. He is sometimes referred to as the "godfather of the countertenor". His style in singing lute song, with extensive use of rubato and extemporised ornamentation, was seen as radical and controversial in his day but is now considered the norm. Deller was an influential figure in the renaissance of early music: an early proponent of "original instrument performance" and one of the first to bring this form to the popular consciousness through his broadcasts on the BBC. He also founded the Stour Music Festival in 1962, one of the first and most important early music festivals in the world.
Genre: classical-countertenor
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Top Tracks
- Ode “Welcome to all pleasures
- Oedipus (1692), Z. 583)
- Dies irae (Gregorian Chant): Dies irae (Gregorian Chant)
- Evening Prayer
- The three ravens
- Pausanias (1695), Z. 585
- Flow, my tears (Song from the Elizabethan England): Flow, my tears
- King Arthur, Z. 628: King Arthur, Z. 628: Act III, "What Power art thou, who from below..." ("Cold Song")
- Where the bee sucks (The Tempest) - 1995 Remastered Version
- Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne, HWV74: iv. Let rolling streams their gladness show
- She moved through the fair
- Down by the sally garden's
- Lord Rendall
- Barbara Allen
- I go before my darling
- Sweet nymph, come to thy lover
- Black is the colour of my true love's hair
- Dioclesian
- The Fairy Queen (1692), Z. 629, adapted from Shakespeare "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
- Borey
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