Purcell - Divine Hymns | Erato 3951442

Purcell - Divine Hymns

Label: Erato

Cat No: 3951442

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 17th September 2007

Contents

Works

Purcell
Jehovah quam multi sunt – CD/HM/TA/PA/KW

Purcell
Lord, what is man, lost man – PA

Purcell
Hosanna to the highest – PA/KW

Purcell
Tell me, some pitying angel tell – CD

Purcell
Since God so tender a regard – TA/PA/KW

Purcell
In the midst of Life – HM/TA/PA/KW

Purcell
O all ye people, clap your hands – CD/HM/TA/KW

Purcell
In guilty night – CD/PA/KW

Purcell
The night is come – TA/KW

Purcell
Close thine eyes – HM/KW

Purcell
Now that the Sun – HM

Croft
What art thou – HM

Blow
Peaceful is he and most secure – CD

Blow
Salvator mundi – CD/HM/TA/PA/KW

Humfrey
Lord! I have sinned – TA

Humfrey
Wilt thou forgive that sin PA

Artists

Paul Agnew (tenor)
Thomas Michael Allen (tenor)
Hannah Morrison (soprano)
Claire Debono (soprano)
Konstantin Wolff (bass)
Les Arts Florissants

Conductor

William Christie

Works

Purcell
Jehovah quam multi sunt – CD/HM/TA/PA/KW

Purcell
Lord, what is man, lost man – PA

Purcell
Hosanna to the highest – PA/KW

Purcell
Tell me, some pitying angel tell – CD

Purcell
Since God so tender a regard – TA/PA/KW

Purcell
In the midst of Life – HM/TA/PA/KW

Purcell
O all ye people, clap your hands – CD/HM/TA/KW

Purcell
In guilty night – CD/PA/KW

Purcell
The night is come – TA/KW

Purcell
Close thine eyes – HM/KW

Purcell
Now that the Sun – HM

Croft
What art thou – HM

Blow
Peaceful is he and most secure – CD

Blow
Salvator mundi – CD/HM/TA/PA/KW

Humfrey
Lord! I have sinned – TA

Humfrey
Wilt thou forgive that sin PA

Artists

Paul Agnew (tenor)
Thomas Michael Allen (tenor)
Hannah Morrison (soprano)
Claire Debono (soprano)
Konstantin Wolff (bass)
Les Arts Florissants

Conductor

William Christie

About

William Christie’s new recording on Virgin Classics is a programme of English sacred works drawn largely from the two volumes of Playford’s Harmonia Sacra, or Divine Hymns and Dialogues (1688/1693).

The published pieces are mostly by Purcell and his friend and teacher John Blow, and it is Purcell who dominates here, with some of his most ravishing sacred songs, including “Tell me, some pitying angel” (The Blessed Virgin’s expostulation), the dramatic scena “In guilty night”, describing Saul's fateful visit to the Witch of Endor, one of the early Funeral Sentences, and the exquisite “Evening Hymn”.

Blow is represented by two settings, “Peaceful is he and most secure” and the antiphon “Salvator mundi”. The programme also includes works by Pelham Humfrey, with whom Purcell studied, and William Croft, like Purcell organist of the Chapel Royal and Westminster Abbey.

The tenor Paul Agnew performs and records regularly with William Christie: here he is joined by the American tenor Thomas Michael Allen, soprano Hannah Morrison and two young soloists who studied with William Christie as part of Le Jardin des Voix: soprano Claire Debono and bass Konstantin Wolff.

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