VARIOUS COMPOSERS
O Ravishing Delight - English airs Alfred Deller (countertenor), with Desmond Dupré (lute and viola di gamba) [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 21/Jul/2017 ] The extraordinary voice of Alfred Deller, the countertenor pioneer who dominated this particular vocal register in the 1950s and '60s. He inspired Britten to write the role of Oberon for him in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' as well as the generations... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
The Three Ravens / The Wraggle-Taggle Gypsies - Folksongs Alfred Deller (counter-tenor) / Desmond Dupré (lute & guitar) [ ALTO / CD - released 23/Aug/2011 ] The English counter-tenor, Alfred Deller, was the man most responsible for the renaissance of music for counter-tenor in the 20th century. |
DIETERICH BUXTEHUDE / THOMAS CAMPION / HENRY PURCELL / etc
Alfred Deller - Campion, Purcel,l Buxtehude Alfred Deller (counter-tenor), with Maurice Bevan (bass-baritone), Desmond Dupre (lute), etc [ Decca Australian Eloquence / CD - released 6/Sep/2019 ] For music-lovers who grew up between the 1950s and the 1970s, Alfred Deller (1912-1979) was the embodiment of the countertenor voice, just as Segovia was the guitar and Casals was the cello. Many who heard his earliest LPs will have applauded the... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
The Art Of Alfred Deller: Classic Vanguard Recordings Alfred Deller, Desmond Dupre (lute), Walter Bergman (harpsichord), Gustav Leonhardt (harpsichord) / Deller Consort [ ALTO / CD - released 25/Mar/2008 ] "Alfred Deller's singing is beguiling and timeless. ... Music for a while [is] from a number of songs which exhibit his essential mastery: everything from accuracy of pitching and magical floating phrases to subtlety of colour and expressive... |
TRADITIONAL
Folksongs Alfred Deller (countertenor), Mark Deller (countertenor), Desmond Dupré (lute) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 10/Aug/2013 ] "a beautifully plaintive, soft-grained recital" (Gramophone) |
ANONYMOUS / BYRD / CUTTING / JOHNSON / MORLEY / etc
Shakespeare Songs Desmond Dupre-lute, Deller Consort, Alfred Deller-director [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 10/Feb/2014 ] There can be no doubt that music played a considerable role in Shakespeare's plays, although very little of it has survived. |
RAVEL / RIMSKY-KORSAKOV / WAGNER / FRANCK / FAURE / BEETHOVEN / etc
Paul Paray - The Mercury Masters: Volume 1 Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Paul Paray, with Marcel Dupré (organ) [ Mercury Living Presence Eloquence / 23 CD Box Set - released 17/Jun/2022 ] Covering the first five years of their partnership on Mercury, this edition celebrates the legacy of French conductor, Paul Paray and the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Recorded from 1953 to 1957, during the golden era of the orchestra. |
Dupre
Organ Music By-John Scott 3*P [ CD ] |
FRANCOIS COUPERIN
Couperin: Les Nations; Pieces de Violes Jacobean Ensemble, with Neville Marriner (violin) / Desmond Dupré & Dennis Nesbitt (viola da gamba) Thurston Dart (harpsichord) [ Decca Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 27/Sep/2019 ] 'Dupre plays sensitively, and is fluent and convincing in ornamentation. Dennis Nesbitt...plays his part firmly but nevertoo obtrusively...the harpsichord [is] here played with style and refinement by Thurston Dart.' Gramophone, July 1958 (Piècesde v |
James Dupre
It's All Happening [ CD ] |
M Dupre
Orgelwerke Vol8 [ Naxos / CD ] |
SAINT-SAENS / BIZET / BERLIOZ / LALO / IBERT / THOMAS / RAVEL / AUBER
Paray conducts French Orchestral Music Marcel Dupre (organ) / Detroit Symphony Orchestra / Paul Paray [ Mercury Living Presence / 5 CD - released 5/Nov/2004 ] “Paul Paray’s style of conducting has virtually vanished today: it represents what is often referred to as the ‘French style of conducting’: clear, elegant, superbly balanced and – what will instantly strike listeners – often very fast. This... |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Suites & Concertos Osian Ellis (harp), Desmond Dupre (lute), Carl Pini, Neville Marriner (violins) / Philomusica of London, Anthony Lewis, Granville Jones [ Decca Australian Eloquence / CD - released 10/Oct/2018 ] The works on this collection are drawn from two of the very first stereo LPs released by the L'Oiseau-Lyre sub-label of Decca. 'Music of Handel' was a 1958 album containing arias (recently reissued by Eloquence 482 4759) and this instrumental suite... |
HOTTETERRE
Music For Flute Vol. 2 Philippe Allain-Dupre, Jean-Francois Bouges (flutes) with accompliment [ NAXOS / CD ] Jacques Hotteterre, called le Romain, is one of the most illustrious figures in the history of the transverse flute. |