Continuing its work with the rising stars of the early music world, Coro is delighted to be releasing a brand new recording by two of The Sixteen’s principal members - soprano Elin Manahan Thomas and theorbo and lute player, David Miller.

The seventeenth century devotional songs on this disc were written against a backdrop of furious historical dramas and lurching tides of fortune. The songs chosen reflect these assorted times and contexts, and are accordingly diverse.

Ravish’d with Sacred Extasies (a quote taken directly from Playford's ‘Harmonia Sacrae’) explores some of the most beautiful Elizabethan lute songs ranging from the doctrinally eloquent to the theologically unsteady, from the spare and the restrained to the opulent and the overblown, from Dowland’s small cluster of late devotional songs to Purcell’s flowery and luscious settings.

Contents include:
- PURCELL: A Morning Hymn (Thou wakefull shepherd)
- PURCELL: Hymn: How long, great God?
- CAMPIAN: Never weather-beaten saile
- CAMPIAN: Author of Light
- HUMFREY: Sleep downy sleep come close my eyes
- HUMFREY: A Hymne to God the Father
- PURCELL: The Blessed Virgin's Expostulation
- DOWLAND: Trilogy: Thou mighty God / When Davids life by Saul / When the poor ecripple
- DOWLAND: Where Sinne sore wounding
- PURCELL: A Devine Hymn (Lord, what is man)
- ANON: Miserere, my Maker
- DOWLAND: In this trembling shadow
- DOWLAND: If that a Sinners sighs be Angels foode
- PURCELL: Sleep, Adam, Sleep, and take thy rest
- PURCELL: An Evening Hymn (Now that the Sun hath veil’d his Light)