Tall and athletically built, debonair and with a thick goatee that he accessorised with a pipe, Alfred Deller cut a distinctive figure. Born a hundred years ago today, he was lauded around the world ...

Mike Ashman interviewed the great countertenor in Gramophone's August 1979 issue, just 11 days before Deller's untimely death "When I found this place 21 years ago", said Alfred Deller, waving a hand ...

Today marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of pioneering singer Alfred Deller. Unless you're an early music devotee, his name might not be familiar. But it's not to too much to say that Deller ...

Never mock the humble comma: much may hang on its absence, as with this contemporary account of the premiere of Purcell's "Hail! Bright Cecilia", in which we are told that the second stanza, starring ...

Something truly wonderful, and a bit strange, happens when men sing into the stratosphere. The steady stream of countertenors -- men who sing in registers normally reserved for sopranos and altos -- ...