Alfred Deller
About the artist
Alfred Deller (31 May 1912 – 16 July 1979) was an English singer, one of the main figures in popularising the use of the countertenor voice in renaissance and baroque music. Deller was born in Margate, and as a boy sang in his local church choir. When his voice broke, he continued singing in his high register, eventually settling as a countertenor. Throughout the 19th century, it was only in the tradition of all-male cathedral choirs that the countertenor voice had survived.
Top songs
- If Music Be the Food of Love
- Greensleeves
- The Three Ravens
- The Plaint
- The Oak and the Ash
- Music for a While
- Down in Yon Forest
- The Tailor And The Mouse
- Sumer Is Icumen In
- The Cuckoo
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- Barbara Allen
- King Henry
- Heigh Ho, the Wind and the Rain
- o solitude
- I Will Give My Love An Apple
- The Seeds Of Love
- Sweet nightingale
- Fairest Isle
- Sweeter Than Roses
- Waly, Waly
- An Evening Hymn
- Hey, Ho, the wind and the rain
- Not all my torments
- Retired from Any Mortal's Sight
- Since From My Dear Astrea's Sight
- Thrice happy lovers
- I Saw My Lady Weep
- Pandolpho
- Bushes And Briars
- Matona mia cara
- Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne, HWV74: i. Eternal source of light divine (Largo)
- Matthew, Mark, Luke and John
- Lord Rendall
- The Wraggle Taggle Gypsies
- Mystery's song
- O lead me to some peaceful gloom
- Flow My Tears
- Sound the Trumpet
- Eternal Source of Light Divine
- I attempt from Love's sickness
- From rosy bow'rs
- All The Pretty Little Horses
- Wayfaring Stranger
- Now is the month of maying
- The Indian Queen: I Attempt From Love's Sickness
- Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne, HWV74: ii. Let all the winged race with joy (Andante)
- Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne, HWV74: iii. Let flocks and herds their fear forget (Andante)
- The Frog and the Mouse
- Wassail Song
- Sweet Jane
- I attempt from love's sickness to fly
- I Care Not For These Ladies
- Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne, HWV74: v. Kind Health descends on downy wings (Andante)
- Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne, HWV74: iv. Let rolling streams their gladness show
- The turtle Dove
- In Darkness Let Me Dwell
- Come Again, Sweet Love
- King Arthur: Act III, scene 2: Cold Song. Genius : "What Power art thou"
- Il Est Bel Et Bon
- Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne, HWV74: vi. Let Envy then conceal her head (Allegro)
- Coventry carol
- Near London Town
- To Shorten Winter's Sadness
- It Was a Lover and His Lass
- Blow Away the Morning Dew
- O Solitude, Z. 406
- O Mistress Mine
- Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne, HWV74: vii. United nations shall combine (Allegro)
- Erhore Mich
- Thus Saith My Cloris Bright
- Come, Pretty Babe
- From Silent Night
- The Plaint, Z. 629/40
- Sweet England
- Secrecie's song
- King Arthur, Z. 628: Overture - Air - Overture
- Fine Knacks for Ladies
- Dabbling In The Dew
- "Music for a While" from Oedipus
- Purcell: Music for a while
- Black Is The Colour Of My True Love's Hair
- Flow, my tears (Song from the Elizabethan England) : Flow, my tears
- The Lover's Ghost
- Purcell: If Music Be The Food Of Love
- O Rosa Bella
- Come, Heavy Sleep
- Lasciate Mi Morire
- Searching For Lambs
- Da te parto
- In Dew of Roses
- Where the Bee Sucks
- Man Is for the Woman Made
- La Deploration de Jehan Okegham
- How Should I Your True Love Know
- Purcell: The Plaint
- Purcell: Fairest Isle
- Just As The Tide Was A-Flowing
- Not All My Torments Can Your Pity Move, Z. 400
- O Who's Going To Shoe Your Pretty Little Foot
- If Music Be the Food of Love, Z. 379
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