Folksongs (Alfred Deller album)

Folksongs
Studio album by Alfred Deller
Released	1972
Recorded	Boughton Aluph, 1971
Genre	Folk song
Length	39'35 (LP) 40'09 (CD)
Label	Harmonia Mundi France

Folksongs is a 1972 album by the countertenor Alfred Deller with his son Mark Deller and lutenist Desmond Dupré.^[1][2][3] In addition to actual folksongs it includes three songs composed by Thomas Morley and one by Robert Jones.

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

References

1. Billboard 20 May 1972 p.39
2. The Gramophone 2003
3. The Grove Book of Opera Singers 2008 p115 "often accompanied by the lutenist Desmond Dupré.