Description
THREE RAVENS / WRAGGLE-TAGGLE GYPSIES: FOLKSONGS BY ALFRED DELLER (CD)
Alfred Deller (counter-tenor)
Desmond Dupré (lute/guitar)
“wonderfully fresh and immediate in sound, with no ambience that spoils the feeling of having the singer almost at one’s side… intimate and natural, sympathetic without being reverberant….all with a taste for early music, so much of which was being rediscovered at that time. And it was a good time: not so knowledgeable and experienced as the present, but more spontaneous, less doctrinaire in style” John Steane (Gramophone)
CONTENT
1. The Three Ravens
2. The Cuckoo
3. How Should I Your True Love Know (Ophelia’s song from Hamlet)
4. Sweet Nightingale
5. I Will Give My Love an Apple
6. The Oak and the Ash
7. King Henry
8. Coventry Carol
9. Barbara Allen
10. Heigh Ho, the Wind and the Rain (Twelfth Night)
11. Waly, Waly
12. Down in Yon Forest
13. Matthew, Mark, Luke and John
14. The Tailor and the Mouse
15. Greensleeves
16. The Wraggle Taggle Gypsies
17. Lord Rendall
18. Sweet Jane
19. The Frog and the Mouse
20. The Seeds of Love
21. Flowers in the Valley
22. Near London Town
23. O Who’s Going to Shoe Your Pretty Little Foot
24. Blow Away the Morning Dew
25. Searching for Lambs
26. Sweet England
27. Dabbling in the Dew
28. Strawberry Fair
29. Just as the Tide Was a-Flowing
