Victorious Love - Purcell Songs
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Label: BIS
Cat No: BISSACD1536
Format: Hybrid SACD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 1st October 2007
Contents
Works
An Evening Hymn, Z193 'Now that the sun hath veiled his light'From silent shades ('Bess of Bedlam'), Z370
If music be the food of love, Z379
King Arthur (The British Worthy), Z628
O! Fair Cedaria, Z402
Of Old, when Heroes though it was Base, Z333
Pausanius, the Betrayer of his Country, Z585
The Fairy Queen, Z629
Thrice happy lovers (An Epithalamium)
When first Amintas sued for a kiss, Z430
Artists
Carolyn Sampson (soprano)Laurence Cummings (harpsichord/spinet)
Elizabeth Kenny (archlute/theorbo)
Anne-Marie Lasla (bass viol)
Sarah Sexton (violin I)
Andrea Morris (violin II)
Jane Rogers (viola)
Works
An Evening Hymn, Z193 'Now that the sun hath veiled his light'From silent shades ('Bess of Bedlam'), Z370
If music be the food of love, Z379
King Arthur (The British Worthy), Z628
O! Fair Cedaria, Z402
Of Old, when Heroes though it was Base, Z333
Pausanius, the Betrayer of his Country, Z585
The Fairy Queen, Z629
Thrice happy lovers (An Epithalamium)
When first Amintas sued for a kiss, Z430
Artists
Carolyn Sampson (soprano)Laurence Cummings (harpsichord/spinet)
Elizabeth Kenny (archlute/theorbo)
Anne-Marie Lasla (bass viol)
Sarah Sexton (violin I)
Andrea Morris (violin II)
Jane Rogers (viola)
About
It was this free-and-easy approach which incited soprano Carolyn Sampson and her co-performers to combine settings with accompaniments ranging from a single lute or spinet to string quartet with continuo. In Kenny’s words: ‘Seen from modern historically-informed or “authentic” perspectives a not-quite-familiar Purcell emerges, a composer of Gebrauchsmusik, flexibly scored and flexibly interpretable: virtuosic if the performers wish, innocently affecting if not.’ Including some of Purcell’s most well-loved songs as well as lesser-known gems, this collection has as its motto a line from the opening song Sweeter than roses: ‘What magic has victorious love’.
As one of today’s most magic – not to say victorious – singers, whether on the opera stage or in the concert hall, Carolyn Sampson’s previous appearances on BIS have earned her high praise, for instance in American Record Guide (“Her tone is extraordinarily beautiful: natural, warm and unforced, with almost superhuman vocal athleticism”).
On this her first solo recital disc for BIS she is supported by some of the finest musicians in the field, including Anne-Marie Lasla (bass viol), Elizabeth Kenny (lute) and Laurence Cummings (harpsichord).
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