Shakespeare Songs (Alfred Deller album)
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| Shakespeare Songs | |
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| Released | 1967 |
| Recorded | September 1966 |
| Studio | All Saints' Church, Boughton Aluph |
| Genre | Classical music |
| Producer | Peter Willemoës |
Shakespeare Songs is a 1967 LP album of Elizabethan songs which is one of the most celebrated recordings of the countertenor Alfred Deller.[1][2][3][4] Deller is accompanied by lutenist Desmond Dupré and the Deller Consort, Philip Todd and Max Worthley tenors, Maurice Bevan baritone.[5]
The album includes both anonymous songs adapted by Shakespeare, such as the Willow song, and also songs by Shakespeare's contemporaries which may have been written for his plays. Robert Johnson, a composer and lutenist who set two songs from The Tempest, is known to have worked for Shakespeare's company the King's Men, whereas Thomas Morley's setting of "It Was A Lover And His Lass" from As You Like It, is not known to have been performed in the play, but may have been.