Purcell, Henry: Keyboard Suites & Grounds

Egarr, Richard

HMU 907428

Nakład wyprzedany, ostatni egzemplarz Published a year after his death, Henry Purcell’s eight keyboard suites were long overshadowed by his more celebrated works. They are the heirs to a characteristically English vein, shifting from humour to seriousness in delightfully casual fashion, like the elegant grounds chosen by Richard Egarr to echo them here; the musical testament of a composer who died all too soon. • Richard Egarr plays a harpsichord by Joel Katzman, Amsterdam, 1991, after Ruckers, Antwerp, 1638.

Works:

• Purcell: A Ground in Gamut in G major, Z 645
• Purcell: A New Ground in E minor, Z. T682
• Purcell: Chaconne in G minor, ZT 680, from Timon of Athens
• Purcell: Ground in C minor, ZD221
• Purcell: Ground in D minor, ZD222
• Purcell: Rondeau from Abdelazer
• Purcell: Suite No. 1 in G major, Z 660
• Purcell: Suite No. 2 in G minor, Z 661
• Purcell: Suite No. 3 in G major, Z 662
• Purcell: Suite No. 4 in A minor, Z 663
• Purcell: Suite No. 5 in C major, Z 666
• Purcell: Suite No. 6 in D major, Z 667
• Purcell: Suite No. 7 in D minor, Z 668
• Purcell: Suite No. 8 in F major, Z 669
• Purcell: Swifter, Isis, swifter flow (Welcome Song for Charles II, 1681)

CD x 1

Harmonia Mundi

05.09.08

093046742829