For music-lovers who grew up between the 1950s and the 1970s, Alfred Deller (1912–1979) was the embodiment of the countertenor voice, just as Segovia was the guitar and Casals was the cello. Many who heard his earliest LPs will have applauded the words that Sir Michael Tippett uttered on first hearing Deller live, as early as 1944: ‘In that moment, the centuries rolled back.’ Two of those early LPs – or portions of them – are newly remastered and reissued here in a unique compilation.

• 1. Jubilate Domino, Buxwv 64
• 2. Fugue In C Major, Buxwv 174*
• 3. In Dulci Jubilo, Buxwv 52
• 4. Lute Fantasias Nos. 30 and 40
• 5. Lute Fantasia
• 6. Never Weather-Beaten Sail
• 7. Most Sweet and Pleasing Are Thy Ways, O God
• 8. Author of Light
• 9. To Music Bent