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The Holly and the Ivy
(2006)
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performed by
Alfred Deller (counter tenor), April Cantelo (soprano), Deller Consort, Desmond Dupre (lute), Desmond Dupre (guitar), Eileen Poulter (soprano), Gerald English (tenor), Mary Thomas (soprano), Maurice Bevan (baritone), Stanley Taylor (recorder)
composed by
Christmas Traditional, Felix Mendelssohn, Franz Xaver Gruber, Geoffrey Shaw, George Frederick Handel, Henry John Gauntlett, Johann Georg Ebeling, John Francis Wade, John Henry Hopkins, Jr., Richard Storrs Willis
The recordings of pioneer countertenor Alfred Deller, really the first "star" of early music, have held up well even as fashions in countertenor singing have changed. This two-disc set of Christmas music is not exactly forthright about the fact that the recordings were made in 1956 and 1960 (the information is way in the back of booklet, not on ...
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