voc, 1912-1979 GB, Margate
Singer of Classical
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.
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Title | Artist | Year | Type |
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Henry Purcell | Henry Purcell, Kalmar Chamber Orchestra London, Sir Michael Tippett, The Ambrosian Singers, Alfred Deller, Wilfred Brown | 2015 | Album |
Countertenor | Alfred Deller | 2013 | Album |
Œuvres de Purcell, Bach, Couperin | Alfred Deller | 2012 | Compil. |
Folksongs | Alfred Deller | 2011 | Album |
Christmas Carols And Motets | Alfred Deller, Deller Consort | 2008 | Album |
Bach: Agnus Dei, Cantates BWV 54 Et 170 / Oeuvres De Purcell, Dowland, Parsons, Campian, Berlett | Alfred Deller, Gustav Leonhardt, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Leonhardt Baroque Ensemble | 2008 | Compil. |
King Arthur (2) ; The Folksong Recital | Henry Purcell – Deller Consort & The Deller Choir / The King's Musick / Alfred Deller | 2007 | Compil. |
King Arthur (1) | Henry Purcell – Deller Consort & The Deller Choir / The King's Musick / Alfred Deller | 2007 | Compil. |
Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata 170, Cantata 54, Agnus Dei from Mass in B Minor | Alfred Deller, Leonhardt Baroque Ensemble | 2006 | Album |
Purcell : Music For A While | Alfred Deller | 2004 | Album |
La Renaissance Anglaise | Deller Consort, Alfred Deller | 2004 | Album |
Ses premiers enregistrements | Alfred Deller | 2004 | Compil. |
Portrait Of A Legend | Alfred Deller | 2004 | Compil. |
Deller's Choice | Alfred Deller With Gustav Leonhardt | 2003 | Album |
The Masque In Dioclesian | Henry Purcell - Honor Sheppard • Alfred Deller • Philip Todd • Maurice Bevan, Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt | 2003 | Album |
50 Years Of The Deller Consort (The Early Years 1955-1963) | Alfred Deller, Deller Consort | 2000 | Album |
The Cruel Mother | Alfred Deller | 1998 | Compil. |
De Profundis | Michel Richard Delalande, Honor Sheppard, Mary Thomas, Alfred Deller, Robert Tear, Maurice Bevan, Wiener Kammerchor, Wiener Volksopernorchester | 1995 | Album |
Inoubliable Alfred Deller. A Portrait | Alfred Deller, Wieland Kuijken, William Christie, David Munrow, Richard Lee, Desmond Dupré, Robert Elliott, Robert Spencer, The Consort Of Six, Henry Purcell, John Dowland | 1995 | Album |
Le Choix De Deller | Alfred Deller, Gustav Leonhardt, Marie Leonhardt, Robert Scheiwein | 1995 | Compil. |
Il Ballo Delle Ingrate / Lamento D'Arianna | Claudio Monteverdi, Alfred Deller, Deller Consort | 1994 | Album |
The English Madrigal School / The Bach Guild | Alfred Deller, Deller Consort | 1994 | Album |
The Cries Of London - The Cruel Mother And Other English Ballads And Folk Songs | Alfred Deller, Deller Consort | 1994 | Album |
Bach / Haendel | Johann Sebastian Bach, Georg Friedrich Händel, Alfred Deller, Gustav Leonhardt, Nikolaus Harnoncourt | 1994 | Album |
3 Lecons de Tenébres | François Couperin, Alfred Deller | 1993 | Album |
Leçons De Tenebres | François Couperin / Alfred Deller, Philip Todd, Raphaël Perulli, Michel Chapuis | 1993 | Album |
The Masque In Dioclesian (Instrumental Music For The Play) | Henry Purcell, Deller Consort, Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Alfred Deller | 1993 | Album |
INA Mémoire Vive | Alfred Deller | 1992 | Album |
The Fairy Queen | Deller Consort, Henry Purcell, Alfred Deller, Stour Music Festival Chamber Orchestra | 1992 | Album |
Come Ye Sons | Henry Purcell, Alfred Deller, Deller Consort | 1991 | Compil. |
The Three Ravens (Elizabethan Folks & Minstrel Songs) | Alfred Deller, Desmond Dupré | 1991 | Compil. |
Chant Gregorien | Deller Consort, Alfred Deller | 1990 | Album |
Olinda Theatre Music & Sacred Songs | Henry Purcell, Deller Consort, Alfred Deller | 1990 | Album |
Lute Songs Vol. II · Come, Heavy Sleep | John Dowland, Alfred Deller, Robert Spencer | 1989 | Album |
Messes | William Byrd - Deller Consort, Alfred Deller | 1989 | Album |
Welcome To All The Pleasures - Odes | Henry Purcell : Deller Consort / Alfred Deller | 1988 | Album |
O Ravishing Delight | Alfred Deller | 1987 | Album |
Tenebrae II | Carlo Gesualdo, Deller Consort, Alfred Deller | 1985 | Album |
In Memory Of Alfred Deller | Alfred Deller | 1985 | Compil. |
Alfred Deller | Alfred Deller / Henry Purcell • Johann Sebastian Bach • Georg Friedrich Händel • Dieterich Buxtehude • Thomas Campion | 1984 | Compil. |
The Early Recordings: 1949-1953 (Songs And Arias By Dowland, Campion, Rosseter, Purcell & Handel) | Alfred Deller | 1982 | Compil. |
Oude Muziek Rond De Janskerk | Alfred Deller • Frans Brüggen • Vocal Ensemble Quink • Desmond Dupré • Robert Spencer | 1981 | Album |
Music For A While | Henry Purcell - Alfred Deller, Wieland Kuijken, William Christie, Roderick Skeaping | 1979 | Album |
King Arthur | Henry Purcell - Deller Consort / The Deller Choir / The King's Musick, Alfred Deller | 1979 | Album |
English Songs & Madrigals | Deller Consort, Alfred Deller | 1979 | Album |
Lute Songs / Lute Solos / Consort Music | John Dowland • Alfred Deller • Robert Spencer, The Consort Of Musicke | 1978 | Album |
The Art of Alfred Deller | Alfred Deller, Deller Consort | 1977 | Album |
The English Madrigal School | Alfred Deller, Deller Consort | 1977 | Album |
Chansons De Tavernes Et De Chapelles | Henry Purcell - Deller Consort, Alfred Deller | 1977 | Album |
Alexanders Feast | Georg Friedrich Händel, London Oriana Choir, Alfred Deller | 1976 | Album |
Ode On The Death Of Mr. Henry Purcell | John Blow, Deller Consort, Alfred Deller | 1976 | Album |
Elegies Pour Les Rois Et Les Princes | Deller Consort, Alfred Deller | 1975 | Album |
"Anthems" Pour Soli, Choeurs, Cordes & Orgue | Henry Purcell - Deller Consort | 1975 | Album |
Madrigaux, Ballets & Fantasies, Musica Deo Sacra | Deller Consort, Thomas Tomkins, Ensemble De Violes De La Schola Cantorum De Bâle, Alfred Deller | 1974 | Album |
Alfred Deller Solo Volume 2 | Alfred Deller | 1973 | Album |
Ode A Sainte Cécile «Welcome To All The Pleasures» (1683) / Ode Pour L'Anniversaire De La Reine Mary «Love's Goddess Sure Was Blind» (1692) | Henry Purcell, Deller Consort, Stour Music Festival Chamber Orchestra, Alfred Deller | 1973 | Album |
Notre Dame Mass / Viderunt Omnes, Sederunt Principles | Guillaume de Machaut, Pérotin, Alfred Deller, Deller Consort, Medieval Chamber Ensemble | 1972 | Album |
Folk Songs | Alfred Deller, Mark Deller, Desmond Dupré | 1972 | Album |
Mass For Three Voices • Mass For Four Voices | William Byrd - Deller Consort, Alfred Deller | 1972 | Album |
The Fairy Queen (An Opera In Five Parts) | Henry Purcell : Deller Consort, Stour Music Festival Chamber Orchestra, Alfred Deller | 1972 | Album |
Madrigali Amorosi (From The 8th Book Of Madrigals) | Claudio Monteverdi, Deller Consort, Alfred Deller | 1972 | Album |
The Masque In Dioclesian | Henry Purcell, Alfred Deller, Sally Lesage, Honor Sheppard | 1972 | Album |
The Lamentations Of Jeremiah The Prophet | Deller Consort, Thomas Tallis, Alfred Deller | 1972 | Album |
Alfred Deller Recital | Alfred Deller | 1971 | Album |
O Ravishing Delight | Alfred Deller | 1970 | Album |
Ayres • Record One | Henry Purcell * Deller Consort, Alfred Deller | 1970 | Album |
Tirsi & Clori - Ballets Et Madrigaux | Claudio Monteverdi - Deller Consort, Collegium Aureum, Alfred Deller | 1970 | Album |
Tenebrae I | Carlo Gesualdo - Deller Consort, Alfred Deller | 1970 | Album |
Vocal And Instrumental Music | Orlando Gibbons - Deller Consort, The Jaye Consort | 1970 | Album |
Les Lamentations de Jéremie Le Prophète ( The Lamentations Of Jeremiah ) | Thomas Tallis, Deller Consort, Alfred Deller | 1968 | Album |
Music For A While (The Vocal Art Of Henry Purcell) | Henry Purcell - Alfred Deller, April Cantelo, Maurice Bevan, Walter Bergmann And George Malcolm | 1968 | Album |
Te Deum Et Jubilate Deo / I Guilty Night / Man That Is Born Of A Woman | Henry Purcell - Deller Consort, Stour Music Festival Chamber Orchestra, Alfred Deller | 1968 | Album |
Duets For Countertenors | Alfred Deller, Mark Deller | 1967 | Album |
Shakespeare Songs And Consort Music | Alfred Deller, Deller Consort, Desmond Dupré | 1967 | Album |
"Awake Sweet Love" Airs & Partsongs of John Dowland | John Dowland - Deller Consort, Alfred Deller, Desmond Dupré | 1966 | Album |
Vanguard Everyman Classics Album of Beloved Songs | Deller Consort, Alfred Deller, Desmond Dupré | 1964 | Album |
Music Of Medieval France - 1200-1400 Sacred And Secular | Deller Consort, Alfred Deller, Concentus Musicus Wien | 1964 | Album |
Madrigal Masterpieces Vol 2 | Deller Consort, Alfred Deller | 1963 | Album |
Carols & Motets For The Nativity Of Medieval & Tudor England | Alfred Deller, Deller Consort, Musica Antiqua Wien | 1963 | Album |
Come Ye Sons Of Art - The Bell Anthem - My Beloved Spake‒Anthem | Henry Purcell - Alfred Deller, Deller Consort, London Oriana Choir & Oriana Concert Orchestra, Mark Deller | 1962 | Album |
Seasons Greetings | The Doctor's Orchestral Society Of New York / Alfred Deller and the Deller Consort | 1962 | Single |
The Cruel Mother And Other English Ballads And Folksongs | Alfred Deller With Desmond Dupré, Deller Consort | 1961 | Album |
A Musical Panorama Of Shakespeare's England | Alfred Deller And The Deller Consort | 1960 | Album |
Vaughan Williams Folk Song Album | Alfred Deller And The Deller Consort | 1959 | Album |
Purcell: Welcome To All The Pleasures (Ode on St. Cecilia's Day 1683) ; Blow: Ode On The Death Of Henry Purcell | Henry Purcell, Kalmar Chamber Orchestra London, John Blow, Alfred Deller | 1959 | Album |
Western Wind And Other Folk Songs | Alfred Deller, Desmond Dupré, John Sothcott | 1959 | Single |
Madrigal Masterpieces | Alfred Deller & Deller Consort | 1959 | Album |
Western Wind And Other English Folk Songs And Ballads | Alfred Deller | 1958 | Album |
Come Ye Sons Of Art / Miserere | Henry Purcell / Jean-Baptiste Lully - Margaret Ritchie / Elsie Morison / Alfred Deller / John Whitworth / William Herbert / Richard Lewis / Bruce Boyce / St. Anthony Singers / Ensemble Orchestral De L'Oiseau-Lyre Conducted By Anthony Lewis | 1958 | Album |
English Lute Songs (And Six In Nomines) | Alfred Deller | 1958 | Album |
Western Wind And Other English Folk Songs | Alfred Deller, Desmond Dupré, John Sothcott | 1958 | Album |
Music For A While | Alfred Deller | 1958 | Single |
The Cries Of London | Deller Consort / Alfred Deller / April Cantelo / Wilfred Brown / London Chamber Players / The Ambrosian Singers | 1957 | Album |
Music Of Buxtehude & Lutenist Songs | Dieterich Buxtehude, Alfred Deller, Denis Vaughan, Eileen McLoughlin, Maurice Bevan, Eli Goren, Leonard Friedman, Anna Shuttleworth, Desmond Dupré | 1956 | Album |
William Byrd And His Age (Divers Songs For Voice And Viols) | Alfred Deller, Wenzinger Consort Of Viols | 1956 | Album |
Hark, Ye Shepherds! - Carols At Christmastide | Alfred Deller And Deller Consort | 1956 | Album |
Come Ye Sons Of Art | Henry Purcell - Margaret Ritchie, Alfred Deller, John Whitworth, Bruce Boyce, St. Anthony Singers, Ensemble Orchestral De L'Oiseau-Lyre Conducted By Anthony Lewis, Ruggero Gerlin | 1956 | Album |
Italian Songs | Alfred Deller, Desmond Dupré, George Malcolm | 1956 | Album |
Ode For St. Cecilia's Day | Henry Purcell, Alfred Deller, The Ambrosian Singers, Sir Michael Tippett | 1956 | Album |
The Holly And The Ivy, Christmas Carols Of Old England | Alfred Deller, Deller Consort | 1956 | Album |
Shakespeare Songs And Lute Solos | Alfred Deller & Desmond Dupré | 1955 | Album |
The English Madrigal School, Vol 2 | Alfred Deller, Deller Consort | 1955 | Album |
The Three Ravens (Songs Of Folk And Minstrelsy Out Of Elizabethan England) | Alfred Deller With Desmond Dupré | 1955 | Album |
The English Madrigal School, Vol 1 | Alfred Deller, Deller Consort | 1955 | Album |
Elizabethan And Jacobean Music | Alfred Deller | 1954 | Album |
Music Of Henry Purcell, Jenkins And Locke | Alfred Deller, Henry Purcell, Matthew Locke, John Jenkins | 1954 | Album |
Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata 170, Cantata 54, Agnus Dei from Mass in B Minor | Alfred Deller, Leonhardt Baroque Ensemble | 1954 | Album |
Miserere | Margaret Ritchie / Elsie Morison / Alfred Deller / William Herbert / Richard Lewis / Bruce Boyce / St. Anthony Singers / Ensemble Orchestral De L'Oiseau-Lyre Conducted By Anthony Lewis | 1953 | Album |
Acis & Galatea | Georg Friedrich Händel, Deller Consort, Stour Music Festival Chamber Orchestra, Alfred Deller | Album | |
Cantates - Préludes Et Fugues (Cantate «Jubilate Domino») | Dieterich Buxtehude - Alfred Deller / Deller Consort / René Saorgin | Album | |
The English Madrigal School Vol. 3 (Madrigals Of Thomas Morley) | Thomas Morley - Deller Consort, Alfred Deller | Album | |
Musique De Scène / Airs D'opéras / Odes Et Chants Sacrés | Henry Purcell - Deller Consort, Alfred Deller | Album | |
The Wraggle Taggle Gipsies | Alfred Deller, Desmond Dupré, Taylor Recorder Consort | Album | |
Madrigaux & Chansons D'Angleterre | Deller Consort, Alfred Deller | Album | |
Tenebrae III | Carlo Gesualdo, Deller Consort, Alfred Deller | Album | |
The Indian Queen (Opéra En 5 Actes) / Le Masque De Timon D'Athènes | Henry Purcell - Deller Consort Direction Alfred Deller | Album | |
Te Deum Et Jubilate Deo / I Guilty Night / Man That Is Born Of A Woman | Henry Purcell - Deller Consort, Stour Music Festival Chamber Orchestra, Alfred Deller | Album | |
Music For A While / If Music Be The Food Of Love | Alfred Deller | Album | |
The English Madrigal School: Madrigals Of John Wilbye And Thomas Morley | John Wilbye, Thomas Morley, Deller Consort, Alfred Deller | Album | |
L'Age D'Or Du Madrigal, Madrigaux Italiens, Anglais, Francais | Deller Consort, Quatuor Bulgare, René Saorgin, Raphaël Perulli | Album | |
John Dowling Lute Songs | Alfred Deller, Robert Spencer | Album | |
In Darkness Let Me Dwell / Fine Knacks For Ladies | Alfred Deller | Album |