Henry Purcell: Music for a While

Alfred Deller tirelessly promoted his core repertoire of Elizabethan lute songs and Purcell throughout his career. 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. Available on vinyl remastered from the original tapes.

1: The Plaint
2: If Music Be the Food of Love
3: I Attempt from Love's Sickness
4: Fairest Isle
5: Sweeter Than Roses
6: Not All My Torments
7: Thrice Happy Lovers
8: An Evening Hymn
9: From Rosy Bow'rs
10: O Lead Me to Some Peaceful Gloom
11: Retired from Any Mortal's Sight
12: Music for a While
13: Since from My Dear Astrea's Sight
14: O Solitude

Composer: Henry Purcell

Number of Discs: 1

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