Purcell: Sweeter than Roses

Dennis, Anna, Julian Perkins, Sounds Baroque

RES 10235

Director and keyboardist Julian Perkins and his acclaimed ensemble Sounds Baroque join with soprano Anna Dennis for this celebration of the songs of Henry Purcell.
Known for his undisputed mastery in setting the English language, Purcell also absorbed influences from both French and Italian styles, and the programme is complemented with close contemporaries who also worked in London – a guitar suite from Italian Francesco Corbetta and a harpsichord suite from Giovanni Battista Draghi, along with two songs from the earlier Stuart court composer Henry Lawes.

Works:

• Corbetta: Suite in C
• Draghi, G B: Suite in E minor
• Lawes, H: A Lover’s Legacy
• Lawes, H: No Reprieve
• Purcell: An Evening Hymn 'Now that the sun hath veiled his light', Z193
• Purcell: Celia's fond, too long I've lov'd her, Z364
• Purcell: Cupid, the slyest rogue alive, Z367
• Purcell: How blest are the shepherds (from King Arthur)
• Purcell: I came, I saw, and was undone, Z375
• Purcell: In the black dismal dungeon of despair, Z190
• Purcell: Love arms himself in Celia's eyes, Z392
• Purcell: O! fair Cedaria, hide those eyes Z402
• Purcell: On the brow of Richmond Hill Z405
• Purcell: She loves and she confesses too, Z413
• Purcell: Sweeter than Roses (from Pausanius, the Betrayer of his Country, Z585)
• Purcell: Urge me no more, Z42

CD

4.03.2019

5060262791424