Purcell: Ayres & Songs from Orpheus Britannicus & Harmonica

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Label: Arcana
Release Date: April 14, 2017

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Featuring ⌄

COMPOSER

PURCELL, HENRY
PERFORMER

Feldman, North, Cunningham, Moroney

Product Details ⌄

RELEASE DATE

April 14, 2017
UPC

3760195734308
CATALOG NUMBER

A430
LABEL

Arcana
NUMBER OF DISCS

2
GENRE

Classical

Works ⌄

Ah! Belinda, I am press'd with torment

Composer: Henry Purcell

Performer: Jill Feldman, Nigel North
No. 9. From rosy bow'rs

Composer: Henry Purcell

Performer: Jill Feldman, Nigel North, Sarah Cunningham
No. 2. Music for a While

Composer: Henry Purcell

Performer: Jill Feldman, Nigel North
Fly swift, ye hours, Z. 369

Composer: Henry Purcell

Performer: Jill Feldman, Nigel North, Sarah Cunningham
No. 5. Strike the Viol, touch the lute

Composer: Henry Purcell

Performer: Jill Feldman, Nigel North, Sarah Cunningham
No. 1. Sweeter than Roses

Composer: Henry Purcell

Performer: Jill Feldman, Nigel North
I attempt from love's sickness to fly in vain

Composer: Henry Purcell

Performer: Jill Feldman, Nigel North
From silent shades, and the Elysian groves, Z. 370, "Bess of Bedlam"

Composer: Henry Purcell

Performer: Jill Feldman, Nigel North
The Spanish Friar, Z. 610, "The Double Discovery": Whilst I with grief did on you look

Composer: Henry Purcell

Performer: Jill Feldman, Nigel North
What a sad fate is mine, Z. 428b

Composer: Henry Purcell

Performer: Jill Feldman, Nigel North
No. 2. Ah! how sweet it is to love

Composer: Henry Purcell

Performer: Jill Feldman, Nigel North
Since from my dear Astrea's sight

Composer: Henry Purcell

Performer: Jill Feldman, Nigel North
Act III: Ye gentle spirits of the air, appear!

Composer: Henry Purcell

Performer: Jill Feldman, Nigel North, Sarah Cunningham
Act V: Thrice happy lovers

Composer: Henry Purcell

Performer: Jill Feldman, Nigel North, Sarah Cunningham
Act V: Hark! How all things with one sound rejoice

Composer: Henry Purcell

Performer: Jill Feldman, Nigel North, Sarah Cunningham
No. 4. Tis Nature's voice

Composer: Henry Purcell

Performer: Jill Feldman, Nigel North
Fairest Isle, all isles excelling

Composer: Henry Purcell

Performer: Jill Feldman, Nigel North
Dear pretty youth

Composer: Henry Purcell

Performer: Jill Feldman, Nigel North
No. 17. O lead me to some peaceful gloom

Composer: Henry Purcell

Performer: Jill Feldman, Nigel North
No. 17. The cares of lovers

Composer: Henry Purcell

Performer: Jill Feldman, Nigel North
If music be the food of love, Z. 379

Composer: Henry Purcell

Performer: Jill Feldman, Nigel North, Sarah Cunningham
Voluntary in G Major, Z. 720

Composer: Henry Purcell

Performer: Davitt Moroney
Thou wakeful shepherd (A Morning Hymn), Z. 198

Composer: Henry Purcell

Performer: Jill Feldman, Davitt Moroney
Lord, what is man, Z. 192, "A Divine Hymn"

Composer: Henry Purcell

Performer: Jill Feldman, Davitt Moroney
Voluntary in D Minor, Z. 718

Composer: Henry Purcell

Performer: Davitt Moroney
How long, great God, Z. 189

Composer: Henry Purcell

Performer: Jill Feldman, Davitt Moroney
In the black, dismal dungeon of despair, Z. 190

Composer: Henry Purcell

Performer: Jill Feldman, Davitt Moroney
O solitude, my sweetest choice, Z. 406

Composer: Henry Purcell

Performer: Jill Feldman, Davitt Moroney
Voluntary in C Major, Z. 717

Composer: Henry Purcell

Performer: Davitt Moroney
Tell me, some pitying angel, Z. 196, "The Blessed Virgin's Expostulation"

Composer: Henry Purcell

Performer: Jill Feldman, Davitt Moroney
Voluntary in D Minor, Z. 719

Composer: Henry Purcell

Performer: Davitt Moroney
The earth trembled, Z. 197, "On our Saviour's Passion"

Composer: Henry Purcell

Performer: Jill Feldman, Davitt Moroney
With sick and famish'd eyes, Z. 200

Composer: Henry Purcell

Performer: Jill Feldman, Davitt Moroney
Verse in F Major, Z. 716

Composer: Henry Purcell

Performer: Davitt Moroney
Full of wrath, Z. 185

Composer: Henry Purcell

Performer: Jill Feldman, Davitt Moroney
Voluntary on the Old 100th, Z. 721

Composer: Henry Purcell

Performer: Davitt Moroney
Sleep, Adam, and take thy rest, Z. 195, "Adam's Sleep"

Composer: Henry Purcell

Performer: Jill Feldman, Davitt Moroney
Now that the sun hath veiled his light, Z. 193, "An Evening Hymn on a Ground"

Composer: Henry Purcell

Performer: Jill Feldman, Davitt Moroney

It is an important moment in the life of a singer when she is able to confront the standard repertory. After years spent studying theatre and music in Shakespeare's England under the guidance of musicologist Philip Brett, Jill Feldman recorded two programmes of Henry Purcell's music in 1992, which is reissued here. Many of the ‘Ayres and Songs’ from Orpheus Britannicus are connected to the English theatrical tradition. In the earliest piece on this album, ‘From Silent Shades’, and the latest, ‘From Rosy Bow'rs’, we hear one theatrical tradition – placing the voice of truth in the mouth of a madman. In the same way, we hear the wisdom of Touchstone in As You Like It, of Feste in Twelfth Night, and of King Lear's Fool. This programme, superbly accompanied by lutenist Nigel North, searches for that wisdom throughout. In the Harmonia Sacra recording, Purcell’s sacred hymns are interspersed with his complete organ works played by Davitt Moroney, with whom Jill Feldman had collaborated ever since their meeting in 1975 as part of Philip Brett’s ensemble at Berkeley in California. The organ is an exquisite instrument built by Purcell’s contemporary, Thomas Dallam (1677), which resides in the small village of Guimiliau in Brittany.