"If Music Be the Food Of Love"...

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Alfred Deller - Ah! stigie larve - Handel -

Alfred Deller - Jeptha - Oratorio - Handel

Alfred Deller -
"If My Complaints Could Passions Movie CD: Elisabhetan an Jacobean Music."

Alfred Deller canta "I will give my love an apple"

Alfred Deller

-If music Be the food Of love

- Henry Purcell

Duke Orsino:
If music be the food of love, play on,
Give me excess of it; that surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken, and so die.

Twelfth Night Act 1, scene 1, 1–3

W. Shakespeare

Alfred Deller, Feste's song 'Hey, Ho, the wind and the rain'.

"The incomparable Alfred Deller" with an incredibly beautiful performance of the song sung by Feste in Shakespeare's 'Twelfth Night'.















Black is the Colour

Black is the colour of my true love's hair.
Her face is something wond'rous fair
The clearest eyes and the dearest hands.
I love the grass whereon she stands.

I love my love and well she knows,
I love the grass whereon she goes
And still I hope the time will come
When she and I will be as one.

Black is the colour of my true love's hair.
Her face is something wond'rous fair
The clearest eyes and the dearest hands.
I love the grass whereon she stands.

















Alfred Deller
- The Three Ravens
- Greensleeves.
















Alfred & Mark Deller, John Blow Ah, heaven, what is't I hear

Alfred & Mark Deller
John Blow "Ah, heaven, what is't I hear"
Desmond Dupre, lute and guitar
Paris, 26 December 1972





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- Music for a while - Purcell

"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."



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Deller

Alfred Deller canta "Flow my tears"

Alfred Deller sings "Flow my tears" (by John Dowland).



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Flow my teares fall from your springs,
Exilde for ever: Let me morne
Where nights black bird hir sad infamy sings,
There let me live forlorne.

Downe vaine lights shine you no more,
No nights are dark enough for those
That in dispaire their last fortunes deplore,
Light doth but shame disclose.

Never may my woes be relieved,
Since pittie is fled,
And teares, and sighes, and grones
My wearie days of all joyes have deprived.

From the highest spire of contentment,
My fortune is throwne,
And feare, and griefe, and paine
For my deserts, are my hopes since hope is gone.

Hark you shadowes that in darnesse dwell,
Learn to contemne light,
Happy that in hell
Feele not the worlds despite.

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Fluyan mis lágrimas, caigan desde sus manantiales..
Exiliado para siempre, dejadme llorar.
Permitidme que viva olvidado
donde el pájaro negro de la noche canta su tristeza.

¡Apagaos, oh vanas luces, no brilléis más!
No hay noche lo bastante oscura para aquellos
que desesperadamente deploran sus fortunas perdidas.
La luz no revela sino la vergüenza.

Nunca sean mis penas aliviadas,
puesto que la piedad ha huido;
y las lágrimas, suspiros y gemidos han privado
de toda alegría a mis cansados días.

Desde la más alta cúpula del contento
ha sido arrojada mi fortuna,
y el temor, y la pena, y el dolor
por mis pérdidas, son mis esperanzas,
pues la esperanza partió.

¡Oíd!, vosotras, sombras que en la oscuridad moráis,
aprended a despreciar la luz.
Felices, felices, quienes en el infierno
no sienten el desprecio del mundo.

(Muchas gracias a mgg80, mi querido MARCOS,
por tu ayuda en la traducción, ahora ya perfecta.
Y por descubrir y traducir ese cuarto verso.)

Alfred Deller - Pien D Amoroso Affetto - Caccini

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giulio_Caccini



http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musique_grecque_ancienne












'Peintures dessins' à base de suc de chélidoine par Jacqueline Waechter


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Alfred Deller
- Purcell
- The Plaint from "The Faeries Queene"






















Alfred Deller
- An Evening Hymn
- Henry Purcell










Alfred Deller


http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Deller


















































Alfred Deller - Sweet rose and lily - Theodora - Handel




Air
Didymus
Sweet rose and lily, flow'ry form,
Take me your faithful guard,
To shield you from bleak wind and storm —
A smile be my reward.










Numerical Art, Drawings and Mixed Media by Jacqueline Waechter 2005-2010












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