Shakespeare Songs (Alfred Deller album)

Shakespeare Songs is a 1967 LP album of Elizabethan songs which is one of the most celebrated recordings of the countertenor Alfred Deller. Deller is accompanied by lutenist Desmond Dupré and the Deller Consort, Philip Todd and Max Worthley tenors, Maurice Bevan baritone. The album includes both anonymous songs adapted by Shakespeare, such as the Willow song, and also songs written by composers following the celebrity of Shakespeare's plays, such as Thomas Morley's "It Was A Lover And His Lass" which is not known to have actually ever been performed in the play As You Like It.

Shakespeare Songs (Alfred Deller album)

Shakespeare Songs is a 1967 LP album of Elizabethan songs which is one of the most celebrated recordings of the countertenor Alfred Deller. Deller is accompanied by lutenist Desmond Dupré and the Deller Consort, Philip Todd and Max Worthley tenors, Maurice Bevan baritone. The album includes both anonymous songs adapted by Shakespeare, such as the Willow song, and also songs written by composers following the celebrity of Shakespeare's plays, such as Thomas Morley's "It Was A Lover And His Lass" which is not known to have actually ever been performed in the play As You Like It.