Thomas Mark Fallon's countertenor voice shared half of this long program.

He makes the countertenor voice seem the most natural sound imaginable.

Throughout the 19th century, it was only in the tradition of all-male cathedral choirs that the countertenor voice had survived.

He was known for an unusual countertenor voice.

The lightness of Early Music inheres in its very sounds - the period instruments, the countertenor voices, the small forces.

"I like the countertenor voice, but so often it sounds manufactured, and artistically interesting but not immediately beautiful," she said.

During the Romantic period, the popularity of the countertenor voice waned and few compositions were written with that voice type in mind.

Still, neither man views the countertenor voice as a breed apart.

Today, his untrained countertenor voice and odd little nightmare landscapes have made him a noted performance artist.

Those who know the countertenor voice only from the current crop of "correct" but often unlovely practitioners should give Deller an audition.