4. D: Deller ConsortShakespeare Songs

Probably the most famous countertenor of the 20th century – unless you count Frankie Valli – was the wonderful Alfred Deller, a major figure in the revival of original performance techniques for early and Baroque music. When I was a child we had this album,so I grew up thinking everyone knew and loved ‘Where The Bee Sucks’ and ‘We Be Soldiers Three’. The liner notes, at least on the CD version, are woefully inadequate (who wrote what? when? for which play? Did Henry VIII really write ‘Greensleeves’?) but the music is lovely.