Word: countertenors
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Dates: during 1956-1956
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William Byrd & His Age (Alfred Deller; Basel's Wenzinger Consort of Viols; Vanguard). Music from the golden age of English music (16th-17th centuries) sung in the round, slightly hooty but flexible alto of famed Countertenor Deller. Once the listener becomes adjusted to antique shifts of harmony, the music becomes extremely poignant. But countertenors-male voices that have been trained to sing in the falsetto range, but with more than falsetto power and resonance-are less easily adjusted to. for their tones sound sexless and unsettling...