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Henry Purcell - Music for a While: Improvisations On Purcell

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Number of Discs
2

Release Date
19/06/2020

Artist
Henry Purcell

format
Vinyl / 12" Album

Label / Studio
Erato

Description

Christina Pluhar heads to the cooler climes of England with 'Music for a While', an album based on the haunting, graceful and sometimes deeply moving music of Henry Purcell. Often considered England's greatest composer, Purcell (1659-1695) represents an especially good match for the aesthetic of L'Arpeggiata: he made frequent use of the ground bass, a repeated (ostinato) figure in the lower line - the most famous instance of this occurs in Dido's lament 'When I am laid in earth', the closing number from his opera Dido and Aeneas. The ground bass provides an ideal foundation for the brilliant, sometimes jazz-like improvisation that is the stock-in-trade of L'Arpeggiata, here comprising singers, (plucked) strings, wind instruments, keyboard and percussion.

Disc 1:
1) Twas Within a Furlong of Edinburgh Town ()
2) Music for a While, Z583 ()
3) Strike the Viol ()
4) An Evening Hymn ()
5) In Vain the Am'rous Flute ()
6) A Prince of Glorious Race ()
7) O Solitude, My Sweetest Choice, Z406 ()
8) When I Am Laid in Earth ()

Disc 2:
1) Wondrous Machine ()
2) Here the Deities Approve, Z339 ()
3) Ah! Belinda, I Am Press'd With Torment ()
4) Hark! How the Songsters of the Grove ()
5) One Charming Night ()
6) Man Is for the Woman Made ()
7) O Let Me Ever, Ever Weep ()
8) Curtain Tune ()
9) Hallelujah ()

Album
Music for a While: Improvisations On Purcell

Publisher
Warner Classics

Main Format
Vinyl

Explicit Lyrics
No

Keyword Index
Music for a While: Improvisations On Purcell | Henry Purcell

Catalogue Number
0190295250843

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