My singing teacher, Joan Alexander, told me a wonderful anecdote about Deller. Following a performance he was approached by an unimpressed audience member who told him, 'Sir, you are surely a eunuch', to which he replied, 'Madam, I think the word you are seeking is 'unique'.'
That might sound rude and somehow it is, but most of the time people are just not informed well enough and then ask very stupid or offensive questions.
Even he was just weeks before his death (in 1979) when he made this recording (at 67 years!), this is THE BEST version of "Music for a while". His voice is so deep, full of sorrow and melancholy, it sounds from another world. It's as he had the feeling of his soon death. Thank you Sir Deller for your mighty art! Thanks for posting this absolute marvel!
One can only imagine how sublime he was at his peak. His performance is still devastatingly good with incredible musicality, phrasing & of course, that angelic tone. Deller was a once in every few generations singer. An absolute master & consummate musician. RIP, Alfred! 💕
Purcell was a genius (with apologies for focusing on the music not the singer). His chromatic bass lines and chord progressions reduce me to tears. The force of emotion set against the order of counterpoint create something mildly unsettling and deeply moving. Could listen to this over and over. Thank you.
Beyond words --takes my breath away---such control AND superior expression contained---yet---reaching us within the sublime and the passionate---leading us back to --beyond words----breathtaking!!!!
C'était il y a si longtemps...A Aix-en-Provence d'abord. Puis une master class , à l'abbaye de Silvacane. Je n'avais aucun titre à être là, sinon l'indulgence du maître. Il avait sorti des photos de ses enfants, et nous avions tout de même parlé musique, ou plutôt j'avais écouté. Je lui avais dit un mot que j'aimais de la sagesse chinoise, "la musique donne", et il l'avait adopté. Adieu, cher Sir Alfred.
Alfred Deller's is the sweetest voice I have ever heard. Other counter tenors such as Andreas Scholl may be good, but none has the quality of voice found in Deller.
Each of these singers are a world of their own and each of them are like no other. There is not one better than another. They are just different singers.
C'est un morceau d'une apparente facilité... Ah ! mais d'une difficulté extrême ! Quelle magnifique interprétation d'Alfred DELLER. Tout semble si simple, comme une évidence.
This is really haunting music. There is something incomparably definitive in this rendition by Alfred Deller. I always get a special feeling when I listen to this recording.
Thanks so much for posting this. Deller did so much to promote counter tenor (and English) music in the 20th century. Thanks to him we can hear so many wonderful counter tenors today. Truly a gift.
Alfred Deller a très largement contribué à refaire vivre l'art du contre-ténor souvent appelé haute-contre en France et ce dès les années 40. Qu'il soit ici remercié pour une oeuvre exceptionnelle.
The first, and the best. Might not have the muscle of Jaroussky or Scholl, but he was as honest a singer as there ever was. You listen to the others, but you FEEL Deller. No pretense, no flashiness, just honesty.
From what I remember, both Alfred and his son Mark classed themselves as alto, not countertenors, then a well-known composer informed them that the term countertenor had more panache.
I found his voice in 2008 or 2009 when I was on start of my journey with classical music. I may hear strange but he opened for me love for baroque and classical music. Due to this song I bought my first classical music song with his songs of Henry Purcell. I'm still having it and appreciate it as one of my favourite albums.
Masterful interpretation of Alfred Deller, musically, voice, tempo and sensory correspondences. An aggregate of mental and emotional synthesis in addition to being sensory. This sublime music is created or re-created by the own surpassing of its interpreter, Alfred Deller. It goes with him always forward to give a meaning that unites feelings and allows to reach transcendence with an epic dimension. Thank you for this video !
Whitout comparision. Not only the voice; it's wonderful his way of sing the words, his contribution to english ancient music and revival of some great composers as Purcell or Blow, his role as teacher and mentor of counter-tenors or his colaboration with others masters as Britten. There are marvelous conter-tenor voices, great singers, but Alfred Deller is their father. Thank you.
Music, music for a while Shall all your cares beguile. Shall all, all, etc... Shall all your cares beguile Wond'ring, wond'ring how your pains were eased, eased, eased And disdaining to be pleased 'Til Alecto free the dead 'Til Alecto free the dead From their eternal bands 'Til the snakes drop, drop, drop Drop, drop, drop, drop, drop from her head And the whip, And the whip from out her hand Music, music for a while Shall all your cares beguile. Shall all, all, etc... Shall all your cares beguile Shall all your cares beguile
Alfred Deller was a superb artist, admired by other great artists, including Leonhardt. There was much to learn from Deller, and I suspect that this is true, even today. Thank you for posting.
Timbro di voce magnifico, grande sensibilità di interpretazione, senza alcun eccesso (Magnific tone of voice, great sensitivity of interpretation, without any excess)
I remember first hearing an album of English Madrigals by the Deller Consort in the early 60s. I was transfixed. What an utterly beautiful voice singing utterly beautiful music.
Ogni " drop" si riferisce a un serpente di Medusa che le cade dal capo; stupendo brano.Grazie You Tube...La musica crea legami con l' autore e l'interprete.
It was through him, child, that I discovered this wonder and it remains for me a reference. Everything is perfect, tempo, expressiveness, accompaniment.
Thank you. Listening to such a Music it is evident how Beauty is necessary. Specially, on those hard heavy and even epidemic times we are worldly living. Therefore, you who shared such a delightful oxygen for the heart & the brain, THANKS again to let us have a way to still breath again the heavenly joy of the Freedom of Beauty. (...that we hope to have again soon... for the best of all the humanity ) ***
Stunningly beautiful and humble. I feel the same awe when listening to the amazing ANDREY NEMZER singing SAINT FRANCIS PRAYER. Such humility and inspiration!.
Briht this voice spheric tones hallelujah and serious quite in clarity like nymphe´s fountain garlanded by laurel leaves in his life led by wings as went home again i heard this magic voice, when I was twelve years old in concert in germany. i never forgot and will not forget. Crysalla
"Music for a while Shall all your cares beguile. Wond'ring how your pains were eas'd And disdaining to be pleas'd Till Alecto free the dead From their eternal bands, Till the snakes drop from her head, And the whip from out her hands.
J'ai eu l'honneur d'assister à un concert en1975 environ en la Cathédrale Saint Jean de Tarbes. Un moment céleste qui me bouleverse encore aujourd'hui.
Quelle chance ! Je ne l'ai jamais eue. J'étais lycéenne puis étudiante et j'écoutais ses disques en boucle. Sa mort fut pour moi un vrai chagrin personnel. Les contre-ténors des générations suivantes ont bénéficié de bien plus de moyens, mais la pureté de sa voix est inégalée.
La pointe fine de tout art vient toucher profondément le cœur. Elle fait le contact avec le plus sacré, l'inexprimable beauté de notre nature profonde ; elle frappe le coffre-fort enfoui en nous pour mettre à jour un divin trésor. Alfred Deller est la pointe fine des contre-ténors, nous sommes tous bien d'accord là-dessus. Par delà le temps, sa voix continue de frapper nos carapaces d'oubli grâce aux enregistrements. Heureux sommes-nous d'avoir la grâce de l'entendre.
Quelle chance vous avez eue. Pour ma part, je continue d'écouter, depuis 1971 ou 72 cette voix admirable, jamais égalée, d'une pureté absolue. Les contre-ténors actuels me sont tout à fait inaudibles. Je peux paraître sévère, certes, mais c'est ainsi. Le répertoire de Purcell a été à tout jamais magnifié par cette voix extraordinaire. Lorsque j'entends certaines interprétations actuelles, avec des voix souvent forcées, criardes, je m'empresse de couper le son. Heureusement; nous avons encore les sublimes enregistrements du grand Alfred Deller.
@meltzerboy Deller has one of the most remarkable countertenor voices I have ever heard. Take this unique voice and combine it with his sensitive musicianship, and we have this truly incredible performance! Thanks for sharing, meltzerboy, and thank you, essenciademusica, for posting. :)
As a pure "baroque player" playing with- and listening to today's young talentuous ensembles, when I listen recordings by Harnoncourt, Malgloire or Corboz... I must admit that it has gotten old! But there, incredible, not a wrinkle, a marvel, perhaps a tempo a bit too slow but Deller's musicality supports it. Furthermore, it's funny to realize that behind it, the "young unknown" harpsichord player, was called William Christie. Merci Messieurs, il y a 40 ans, vous avez ouvert la voie à la renaissance de ces musiques pour notre plus grand bonheur.
Glorious music! And performance! Growing up I enjoyed a family's LP with Deller and Lute playing/singing a lot of English folk songs. Fantastic! Still think, whistle these as I walk.
No soy creyente, pero puedo acercarme a esa visión mística de Henry Purcell cuando a escucho esto. Un encuentro con Alfred Deller es el acercamiento a la trascendencia, un impulso natural del ser humano. Bellísimo!!
Atteint le plus profond de notre être, notre essence... Moment où l'on se trouve en apesanteur, en vibration, hors émotion, mais éminemment vivant... Merci M. Deller.
alfred tu étais un chanteur exceptionnel je t'ais entendu à cambrai pour une messe de guillaume dufaye vous chantiez à capella c'est un souvenir impérissable .Il n'y avait que des lycéens qui au début parlaient puis ensuite silence total ils étaient subjugués .Je me souviens d'une soprano extraordinaire
im crying not because this is just beautiful and stunning no i have to do this as a set work for music gcse and its beginning to get so overplayed i could probably sing it off by heart also dont forget that tierce de picardie at the end (minor key changes to major)
Exactly as it should be. You ought to be able to sing/hum/whistle all your set works and reproduce them on manuscript paper without the aid of Sibelius. Interestingly, I can't hear a major third in that last chord, just an open 5th. This could be because I'm getting old and deaf, my memory is going and I have lost my score so I can't check.
Hmm yeah I can’t hear tiers de Picardie, it’s a perfect cadence In the harmonic minor scale, the 7th degree (ie the leading note or last note of the scale) is raised a semitone. The 2nd note in chord V (which is the penultimate chord of a piece) has this raised semitone inside it, and therefore making the chord sound MAJOR as the 2nd note is a MAJOR third, rather than a MINOR third if it were kept unraised. The last chord, I’m afraid, is the tonic minor chord, in the sheet music, there is just a C written in the continuo, but because there are no numbers (figured bass) written beneath it, it is optional to the harpsichordist to play the C alone, with the 5th, or as a minor chord, from what I can hear, he played the full chord in this recording. Therefore the affect of the minor perfect cadence is a feeling of a reversed tiers de Picardie, as you’re going from the Major Chord V to the minor chord I (i), and so the V-i sounds like a tiers de Picardie.
I was wondering who where his excellent partners for this recording and looked it up, they are William Christie at the harpsichord and Wieland Kuijken, bass viol
Desde luego que es el mejor. Su canto es insuperable. Canta con verdad, sin pretender nada más que transmitir y conectar con el que escucha. El que escucha que se siente totalmente cautivado por su expresividad y su maravillosa voz.
Finest recording (entire of CD) of Purcell songs, both Deller and Christie´s/Kuijken continuo----total genius all around. All other recordings of these songs should be judged against this CD.
My singing teacher, Joan Alexander, told me a wonderful anecdote about Deller. Following a performance he was approached by an unimpressed audience member who told him, 'Sir, you are surely a eunuch', to which he replied, 'Madam, I think the word you are seeking is 'unique'.'
Very amazing and very amusing answer.
Excellent comeback to an astoundingly rude woman.
That might sound rude and somehow it is, but most of the time people are just not informed well enough and then ask very stupid or offensive questions.
Even he was just weeks before his death (in 1979) when he made this recording (at 67 years!), this is THE BEST version of "Music for a while". His voice is so deep, full of sorrow and melancholy, it sounds from another world. It's as he had the feeling of his soon death.
Thank you Sir Deller for your mighty art! Thanks for posting this absolute marvel!
From eternity to eternity, so close to the Light Gratitude
What do you think of this version? ruclips.net/video/PptQJv4wxdg/видео.html
One can only imagine how sublime he was at his peak. His performance is still devastatingly good with incredible musicality, phrasing & of course, that angelic tone. Deller was a once in every few generations singer. An absolute master & consummate musician. RIP, Alfred! 💕
Thanks for the info . What a brilliant voice for 67 , best version I've ever heard .
Moving story.
Purcell was a genius (with apologies for focusing on the music not the singer). His chromatic bass lines and chord progressions reduce me to tears. The force of emotion set against the order of counterpoint create something mildly unsettling and deeply moving. Could listen to this over and over. Thank you.
I do listen to it over and over. Such a subtle voice.
Purcell was a coutertenor himself.
So, so very beautifully said.
@@adamabele785I didn't know! Thanks for the info.
I always come back to this recording… incomparable
Deller is a once in a generation singer. His ability to shape his phrases and sound is astounding. What an artist!
Beyond words --takes my breath away---such control AND superior expression contained---yet---reaching us within the sublime and the passionate---leading us back to --beyond words----breathtaking!!!!
C'était il y a si longtemps...A Aix-en-Provence d'abord. Puis une master class , à l'abbaye de Silvacane. Je n'avais aucun titre à être là, sinon l'indulgence du maître. Il avait sorti des photos de ses enfants, et nous avions tout de même parlé musique, ou plutôt j'avais écouté. Je lui avais dit un mot que j'aimais de la sagesse chinoise, "la musique donne", et il l'avait adopté. Adieu, cher Sir Alfred.
Molto emozionante.
Sono contenta che lei abbia vissuto un momento cosí bello.
Alfred Deller's is the sweetest voice I have ever heard. Other counter tenors such as Andreas Scholl may be good, but none has the quality of voice found in Deller.
Vivement le jour où les hommes cesseront de se comparer les uns les autres
Each of these singers are a world of their own and each of them are like no other. There is not one better than another. They are just different singers.
I agree. He had a more masculine tone which is suitable for love songs in the English language
Quelle intelligence dans se chant. Alfred Deller nous fait ressentir toute la beauté de l'harmonie. Sublime. Irremplaçable .
C'est un morceau d'une apparente facilité... Ah ! mais d'une difficulté extrême ! Quelle magnifique interprétation d'Alfred DELLER. Tout semble si simple, comme une évidence.
Absolutely sublime. This is music that lifts me to a different plane, 'all your cares will ease'. Such is the power of music.
Ik hoor een tijdloze exelente uitvoering, eenvoudig en toch zo emotioneel gezongen. Waw!
Un timbro meraviglioso, una tecnica impeccabile! A wonderful tone of voice, an impeccable techinque!
This is really haunting music. There is something incomparably definitive in this rendition by Alfred Deller. I always get a special feeling when I listen to this recording.
Thanks so much for posting this. Deller did so much to promote counter tenor (and English) music in the 20th century. Thanks to him we can hear so many wonderful counter tenors today. Truly a gift.
My first record. Alfred Deller will always be the best
Alfred Deller a très largement contribué à refaire vivre l'art du contre-ténor souvent appelé haute-contre en France et ce dès les années 40.
Qu'il soit ici remercié pour une oeuvre exceptionnelle.
Perfection. Nothing less.
Une voix exceptionnelle d'une bienveillante humilité qui sert une musique qui élève en touchant le coeur
The first, and the best. Might not have the muscle of Jaroussky or Scholl, but he was as honest a singer as there ever was. You listen to the others, but you FEEL Deller. No pretense, no flashiness, just honesty.
I agree completely. Too many singers today rely on "muscle." They forget that the true power comes from the music.
the best was Oberlin
Giusto, perfettamente d'accordo
+ Joel Jaroussky? Muscle? Much as I love Philippe, but "muscle"? No. Bowman, yes - and he needs no amplification.
From what I remember, both Alfred and his son Mark classed themselves as alto, not countertenors, then a well-known composer informed them that the term countertenor had more panache.
I found his voice in 2008 or 2009 when I was on start of my journey with classical music. I may hear strange but he opened for me love for baroque and classical music. Due to this song I bought my first classical music song with his songs of Henry Purcell. I'm still having it and appreciate it as one of my favourite albums.
Masterful interpretation of Alfred Deller, musically, voice, tempo and sensory correspondences. An aggregate of mental and emotional synthesis in addition to being sensory. This sublime music is created or re-created by the own surpassing of its interpreter, Alfred Deller. It goes with him always forward to give a meaning that unites feelings and allows to reach transcendence with an epic dimension. Thank you for this video !
Whitout comparision. Not only the voice; it's wonderful his way of sing the words, his contribution to english ancient music and revival of some great composers as Purcell or Blow, his role as teacher and mentor of counter-tenors or his colaboration with others masters as Britten.
There are marvelous conter-tenor voices, great singers, but Alfred Deller is their father. Thank you.
I have never heard this before.
Absolutely astonishing!
His voice is so beautiful.
Brett Rink counter tenor music
Some here never heard before...just heard it on radio 3 ..had to find it and listen again...
Music, music for a while
Shall all your cares beguile.
Shall all, all, etc...
Shall all your cares beguile
Wond'ring, wond'ring
how your pains were eased, eased, eased
And disdaining to be pleased
'Til Alecto free the dead
'Til Alecto free the dead
From their eternal bands
'Til the snakes drop, drop, drop
Drop, drop, drop, drop, drop from her head
And the whip,
And the whip from out her hand
Music, music for a while
Shall all your cares beguile.
Shall all, all, etc...
Shall all your cares beguile
Shall all your cares beguile
An exquisite account of Purcell's sublimely beautiful song by the great Alfred Deller.
Truly one of the most beatiful, natural counter tenor voices ever and a really sensitive musician. Just perfect!
Wonderful! ❤❤
certes il y a des chanteurs haute contres qui sont bons mais toi alfred c'était un don naturel inégalé et en plus une énorme culture musicale
Tak piękny inkunabuł głosu kontratenorowego, Dziękuję za udostępnienie. Pouczające.
I've rarely heard such a round tone for a countertenor. Lovely.
Alfred Deller was a superb artist, admired by other great artists, including Leonhardt. There was much to learn from Deller, and I suspect that this is true, even today. Thank you for posting.
Quelle beau timbre...une voix pleine d'émotions....que je ne retrouve pas dans d'autres versions
I'm glad there's so much Deller here, he's one of my favorites!
Timbro di voce magnifico, grande sensibilità di interpretazione, senza alcun eccesso (Magnific tone of voice, great sensitivity of interpretation, without any excess)
Beautiful basso continuo ❤
I feel like I am dying but can't stop to listening this masterpiece.
I remember first hearing an album of English Madrigals by the Deller Consort in the early 60s. I was transfixed. What an utterly beautiful voice singing utterly beautiful music.
First encounter with Mr Deller and he's absolutely phantastic !! Glad being alive to learn !
C'est magnifique, cette voix nous vient du ciel, vibrations uniques, quelle sensibilité
Nog steeds beter dan alles! Toujours aussi extraordinairement naturel et émotionnellement juste !
Ogni " drop" si riferisce a un serpente di Medusa che le cade dal capo; stupendo brano.Grazie You Tube...La musica crea legami con l' autore e l'interprete.
It was through him, child, that I discovered this wonder and it remains for me a reference. Everything is perfect, tempo, expressiveness, accompaniment.
Beautiful voice.
This is my absolute favourite... This is beyond every word... Over the life.. This song in his performance came from the Endless God.. ❤️
It was a pleasure to do this video, alfred deller is wonderful .
I made this clip for you! kisss
Thank you.
Listening to such a Music it is evident how Beauty is necessary.
Specially, on those hard heavy and even epidemic times we are worldly living. Therefore, you who shared such a delightful oxygen for the heart & the brain, THANKS again to let us have a way to still breath again the heavenly joy of the Freedom of Beauty.
(...that we hope to have again soon... for the best of all the humanity )
***
The man who brought back and revitalized the Countertenor Early Music repertoire !!❤❤❤
Stunningly beautiful and humble. I feel the same awe when listening to the amazing ANDREY NEMZER singing SAINT FRANCIS PRAYER. Such humility and inspiration!.
thank you so much for this; after hearing Pucell by Deller i become quiet, quiet, quiet.....
신비롭네요.
아름답고 황홀합니다.
가슴에 젗어서 여운이 오래남네요❤❤❤
Briht this voice
spheric tones
hallelujah and serious quite
in clarity like nymphe´s fountain
garlanded by laurel leaves
in his life
led by wings
as went home again
i heard this magic voice, when I was twelve years old in concert in germany. i never forgot and will not forget. Crysalla
Oh! There it is ......perfection, true beauty....
awesome!! great voice!!!
I heard him singing this aria in 1975 in Lacoste: incredible, unforgettable; it has been the only concert in which I cried
tellement beau que je pleure à chaque écoute...
Deller is unparalleled in this repertory.
Amazing voice and pure sounds of authentic instruments!
"Music for a while
Shall all your cares beguile.
Wond'ring how your pains were eas'd
And disdaining to be pleas'd
Till Alecto free the dead
From their eternal bands,
Till the snakes drop from her head,
And the whip from out her hands.
J'ai eu l'honneur d'assister à un concert en1975 environ en la Cathédrale Saint Jean de Tarbes. Un moment céleste qui me bouleverse encore aujourd'hui.
(Verte de jalousie)
+Marie V moi aussi....
Quelle chance ! Je ne l'ai jamais eue. J'étais lycéenne puis étudiante et j'écoutais ses disques en boucle. Sa mort fut pour moi un vrai chagrin personnel. Les contre-ténors des générations suivantes ont bénéficié de bien plus de moyens, mais la pureté de sa voix est inégalée.
La pointe fine de tout art vient toucher profondément le cœur. Elle fait le contact avec le plus sacré, l'inexprimable beauté de notre nature profonde ; elle frappe le coffre-fort enfoui en nous pour mettre à jour un divin trésor. Alfred Deller est la pointe fine des contre-ténors, nous sommes tous bien d'accord là-dessus. Par delà le temps, sa voix continue de frapper nos carapaces d'oubli grâce aux enregistrements. Heureux sommes-nous d'avoir la grâce de l'entendre.
Quelle chance vous avez eue. Pour ma part, je continue d'écouter, depuis 1971 ou 72 cette voix admirable, jamais égalée, d'une pureté absolue. Les contre-ténors actuels me sont tout à fait inaudibles. Je peux paraître sévère, certes, mais c'est ainsi. Le répertoire de Purcell a été à tout jamais magnifié par cette voix extraordinaire. Lorsque j'entends certaines interprétations actuelles, avec des voix souvent forcées, criardes, je m'empresse de couper le son. Heureusement; nous avons encore les sublimes enregistrements du grand Alfred Deller.
100000 views for this marvelous performance, glad there are still people with left!
@meltzerboy
Deller has one of the most remarkable countertenor voices I have ever heard. Take this unique voice and combine it with his sensitive musicianship, and we have this truly incredible performance! Thanks for sharing, meltzerboy, and thank you, essenciademusica, for posting. :)
As a pure "baroque player" playing with- and listening to today's young talentuous ensembles, when I listen recordings by Harnoncourt, Malgloire or Corboz... I must admit that it has gotten old! But there, incredible, not a wrinkle, a marvel, perhaps a tempo a bit too slow but Deller's musicality supports it. Furthermore, it's funny to realize that behind it, the "young unknown" harpsichord player, was called William Christie. Merci Messieurs, il y a 40 ans, vous avez ouvert la voie à la renaissance de ces musiques pour notre plus grand bonheur.
Невозможно наслушаться, все гениально:музыка, исполнение.
Mon dieu ignorante que je suis... Quelle révélation!
Il n'est jamais trop tard pour découvrir
Without this man, Vitas would never be known for what he is today. Respect where respect is due.
There is no one like him...
(and this song's beauty is unbelievable!)
Une telle sensibilité qui reste si actuelle. La beauté.
Glorious music! And performance! Growing up I enjoyed a family's LP with Deller and Lute playing/singing a lot of English folk songs. Fantastic! Still think, whistle these as I walk.
this is really memorable, I've just forgotten how incredibly expressive and etheric his voice was. I must buy one of his discs!
super music!
Divine notes that just float in the ether
No soy creyente, pero puedo acercarme a esa visión mística de Henry Purcell cuando a escucho esto. Un encuentro con Alfred Deller es el acercamiento a la trascendencia, un impulso natural del ser humano. Bellísimo!!
Atteint le plus profond de notre être, notre essence... Moment où l'on se trouve en apesanteur, en vibration, hors émotion, mais éminemment vivant... Merci M. Deller.
id say this is the best rendition of the song on RUclips!
He was my grandfather's cousin!
@Wingmother - How beautiful to read this. Thank you for comparting your impressions and feelings.
He floats dreamily in perfect pitch.
Sublime et inégalable.
Alfred Deller es un gran precursor de la gran escuela de contratenores que existe actualmente. Esta pieza de Purcell es maravillosa.
alfred tu étais un chanteur exceptionnel je t'ais entendu à cambrai pour une messe de guillaume dufaye vous chantiez à capella c'est un souvenir impérissable .Il n'y avait que des lycéens qui au début parlaient puis ensuite silence total ils étaient subjugués .Je me souviens d'une soprano extraordinaire
hi Christiana hi Jo I agree with you Alfred is like an angel ;absolutely the best
It's the most perfect singing I've ever heard.
Gran bella voce e grande sensibilità
Nothing is out of tune. It's perfect.
Gets me through many a day
Good evening здравствуйте очень хорошая музыка очень хорошее пение мне понравилось большое спасибо всего вам самого доброго thanks very much goodbye
So much SOUL!!
Sung how it SHOULD be sung, perfect. XXXXXXXXXX
im crying
not because this is just beautiful and stunning
no
i have to do this as a set work for music gcse and its beginning to get so overplayed i could probably sing it off by heart
also dont forget that tierce de picardie at the end (minor key changes to major)
same
Exactly as it should be. You ought to be able to sing/hum/whistle all your set works and reproduce them on manuscript paper without the aid of Sibelius. Interestingly, I can't hear a major third in that last chord, just an open 5th. This could be because I'm getting old and deaf, my memory is going and I have lost my score so I can't check.
Hmm yeah I can’t hear tiers de Picardie, it’s a perfect cadence
In the harmonic minor scale, the 7th degree (ie the leading note or last note of the scale) is raised a semitone. The 2nd note in chord V (which is the penultimate chord of a piece) has this raised semitone inside it, and therefore making the chord sound MAJOR as the 2nd note is a MAJOR third, rather than a MINOR third if it were kept unraised.
The last chord, I’m afraid, is the tonic minor chord, in the sheet music, there is just a C written in the continuo, but because there are no numbers (figured bass) written beneath it, it is optional to the harpsichordist to play the C alone, with the 5th, or as a minor chord, from what I can hear, he played the full chord in this recording.
Therefore the affect of the minor perfect cadence is a feeling of a reversed tiers de Picardie, as you’re going from the Major Chord V to the minor chord I (i), and so the V-i sounds like a tiers de Picardie.
I was wondering who where his excellent partners for this recording and looked it up, they are William Christie at the harpsichord and Wieland Kuijken, bass viol
Desde luego que es el mejor. Su canto es insuperable. Canta con verdad, sin pretender nada más que transmitir y conectar con el que escucha. El que escucha que se siente totalmente cautivado por su expresividad y su maravillosa voz.
Finest recording (entire of CD) of Purcell songs, both Deller and Christie´s/Kuijken continuo----total genius all around. All other recordings of these songs should be judged against this CD.
I always loved harpsichord and cello- countertenor is perfect
A.Deller enchante le ciel de ceux qui l'écoutent.
A Deller enchante le ciel et la condition humaine de ceux qui l'écoutent
bellissimo!
спасибо за столь редкую запись...
quelle beauté .. cette fatalité jouée par le clavecin .. et puis cette voix .. hors monde
Timeless, Deller at his best, singing Purcell!
Stephen Woodcraft I believe it was produced in the baroque period xox
Existe-t-il quelque chose de plus beau à écouter ?
una voce davvero calda e un intonazione perfetta
Волшебно. Спасибо!
Fine voice !!
Beauriful!