Henry Purcell Essentials

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Henry Purcell Essentials

In the grand tradition of melancholic music, there may not be a more gloriously bummed-out sound than the work of this English master. An early genius of ostinati and the low end, his propulsive music has been an influence not just on his Baroque contemporaries, but also on Benjamin Britten and the American post-minimalist Nico Muhly (who arranged “Let the Night Perish” and incorporated Purcell's Psalm 102 into a symphonic work). Not surprisingly, Purcell's acrobatic, graceful writing for the voice has long enchanted top singers like Alfred Deller and Kathleen Battle.

Symphony - Prelude / Canzona / Largo / Allegro / Adagio / Allegro

Paul McCreesh, Gabrieli Consort & Players

6:12

Sound the Trumpet

Christophe Dumaux, Stefano Montanari, Accademia Bizantina, Andreas Scholl

3:00

Fairest Isle (Venus)

Academy of Ancient Music, Barbara Bonney, Christopher Hogwood

2:35

II. Rondeau (Abdelazer, or the Moor's Revenge Z. 570 No. 2)

Andrew Parrott, Taverner Consort

1:34

When I am laid in earth (Dido)

Emmanuelle Haïm, Susan Graham, Le Concert d'Astrée

3:50

With drooping wings (Chorus)

european voices, Simon Halsey, Le Concert d'Astrée, Emmanuelle Haïm

2:16

If Music Be the Food of Love, Z. 379c

Rowan Pierce, Richard Egarr

3:29

Hark! Hark! the Echoing Air

Paul O'Dette, Sylvia McNair, Laurence Dreyfus, Academy of Ancient Music, Crispian Steele-Perkins, Christopher Hogwood

2:24

Musick for a While

Harry Bicket, Dame Sarah Connolly

4:02

My beloved spake, Z. 28

John Challenger, David Stout, Cambridge, Neal Davies, James Gilchrist, Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge, Andrew Nethsingha, Iestyn Davies

11:22

The Queen's Funeral March, Z. 860

Jean-François Madeuf, Les Trompettes des Plaisirs

2:47

Chaconne

Ensemble les Surprises, Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas

3:14

Aria. "The Fife and All the Harmony of War"

Taverner Consort, Andrew King, Andrew Parrott

3:10

Hear My Prayer, O Lord, Z. 15

The Sixteen, Harry Christophers

2:28

"Sweeter Than Roses", Z.585

Dame Emma Kirkby, Anthony Rooley

3:12

Chorus. Detruction's Our Delight

Vyacheslav Podyelsky, The New Siberian Singers, Teodor Currentzis, MusicAeterna

0:29

The Witches' Dance

MusicAeterna, Teodor Currentzis

2:09

"'Tis Nature's Voice"

François Lazarevitch, Tim Mead, Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien

4:49

Come, ye sons of art, away

Trevor Pinnock, The English Concert, The English Concert Choir, Michael Chance

1:41

The Plaint: O let me weep

Laurence Cummings, Carolyn Sampson, Sarah Sexton, Elizabeth Kenny, Anne-Marie Lasla

7:28

Third Act "What power art thou"

Les Arts Florissants, Petteri Salomaa, William Christie

4:08

No. 3, Here the Deities Approve (Live)

Julia Kuhn, Stephen Pedder, William Carter, Bojan Čičić, Mark Levy, Richard Egarr, Iestyn Davies

4:12

VI. Autumn: 'See My Many Colour'd Fields'

Taverner Consort, Andrew Parrott

3:11

In Nomine à 7 in G Minor, Z. 747

4:02

Thou knowest Lord, Z58B (1682)

David Hill, Baroque Brass Of London, Winchester Cathedral Choir

2:12

	
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