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Folksongs (Alfred Deller album)

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Released
  
1972

Length
  
39'35 (LP) 40'09 (CD)

Release date
  
1972

Label
  
Harmonia Mundi

Recorded
  
Boughton Aluph, 1971

Artist
  
Alfred Deller

Genre
  
Classical

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Folksongs is a 1972 album by the countertenor Alfred Deller with his son Mark Deller and lutenist Desmond Dupré. In addition to actual folksongs it includes three songs composed by Thomas Morley and one by Robert Jones.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "The Three Ravens" – Alfred Deller & Desmond Dupré (2:52)
  2. "Black is the Colour of My True Love's Hair" – Alfred Deller & Desmond Dupré (1:53 )
  3. "Sweet Nymph, Come to thy Lover" Thomas Morley – Alfred Deller, Desmond Dupré and Mark Deller (1:41)
  4. "I go before my darling" by Thomas Morley – Alfred Deller, Mark Deller and Desmond Dupré (1:26)
  5. "The Oak and the Ash" – Alfred Deller & Desmond Dupré (3:11)
  6. "Barbara Allen" – Alfred Deller & Desmond Dupré (2:36)
  7. "Lord Randall" – Alfred Deller & Desmond Dupré (4:04)
  8. "The Water Is Wide" (English version of Waly, Waly) – Alfred Deller & Desmond Dupré (2:35)
  9. "The Tailor and the Mouse" – Alfred Deller & Desmond Dupré (1:31)
  10. "Down by the Sally Gardens" – Alfred Deller & Desmond Dupré (2:21)
  11. "I Will Give my Love an Apple" – Alfred Deller & Desmond Dupré (1:47)
  12. "Miraculous Love's wounding" by Thomas Morley – Alfred Deller, Desmond Dupré and Mark Deller (2:57 )
  13. "Sweet Kate" by Robert Jones – Alfred Deller, Mark Deller and Desmond Dupré (1:36)
  14. "Bushes and Briars" (collected by Vaughan Williams 1908) – Alfred Deller & Desmond Dupré (2:36 )
  15. "The Foggy, Foggy Dew" – Alfred Deller & Desmond Dupré (2:10)
  16. "She Moved Through the Fair" – Alfred Deller & Desmond Dupré (3:44 )
  17. "Evening Prayer" – Alfred Deller & Desmond Dupré

Songs

Sweet nymph - come to thy lover1:41
I go before my darling1:27
Miraculous love's wounding2:58

References

Folksongs (Alfred Deller album) Wikipedia
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