PURCELL: Love's Goddess Sure Was Blind

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Coro
Release Date
October 1, 2004
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      PURCELL, HENRY
    • PERFORMER
      Love'S Goddess Sure Was Blind
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      October 01, 2004
    • UPC
      828021602429
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      COR16024
    • LABEL
      Coro
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Orchestral & Symphonic
    Works ⌄

    1. Jehova, quam multi sunt hostes mei, Z. 135

      Composer: Henry Purcell

      Ensemble: The Sixteen Choir, Symphony of Harmony and Invention

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    2. Miserere mei, Z. 109

      Composer: Henry Purcell

      Ensemble: The Sixteen Choir, Symphony of Harmony and Invention

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    3. Man that is born of a woman, Z. 27

      Composer: Henry Purcell

      Ensemble: The Sixteen Choir, Symphony of Harmony and Invention

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    4. In the midst of Life, Z. 17A

      Composer: Henry Purcell

      Ensemble: The Sixteen Choir, Symphony of Harmony and Invention

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    5. Thou knowest, Lord, the secrets of our hearts, Z. 58A

      Composer: Henry Purcell

      Ensemble: The Sixteen Choir, Symphony of Harmony and Invention

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    6. Elegy on the Death of Queen Mary, Z. 383: Incassum, Lesbia, incassum rogas

      Composer: Henry Purcell

      Ensemble: Symphony of Harmony and Invention

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    7. Symphony

      Composer: Henry Purcell

      Ensemble: Symphony of Harmony and Invention

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    8. Love's goddess sure was blind this day

      Composer: Henry Purcell

      Ensemble: Symphony of Harmony and Invention

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    9. Those eyes that form, that lofty mien

      Composer: Henry Purcell

      Ensemble: Symphony of Harmony and Invention

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    10. Sweetness of nature, and true wit

      Composer: Henry Purcell

      Ensemble: Symphony of Harmony and Invention

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    11. Long may she reign over this Isle

      Composer: Henry Purcell

      Ensemble: Symphony of Harmony and Invention

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    12. May her blest example chase

      Composer: Henry Purcell

      Ensemble: Symphony of Harmony and Invention

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    13. Many such days may she behold

      Composer: Henry Purcell

      Ensemble: Symphony of Harmony and Invention

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    14. May she to heaven late return

      Composer: Henry Purcell

      Ensemble: Symphony of Harmony and Invention

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    15. Elegy on the Death of Queen Mary, Z. 504: O dive custos auricae domus

      Composer: Henry Purcell

      Ensemble: Symphony of Harmony and Invention

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    16. Funeral Music: The Queen's Farewell

      Composer: James Paisible

      Ensemble: Symphony of Harmony and Invention

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    17. March

      Composer: Henry Purcell

      Ensemble: Symphony of Harmony and Invention

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    18. Funeral Music: The Queen's Farewell

      Composer: Thomas Tollett

      Ensemble: Symphony of Harmony and Invention

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    19. Funeral Music: March, Z. 860

      Composer: Henry Purcell

      Ensemble: Symphony of Harmony and Invention

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    20. Funeral Music: I Am the Resurrection and the Life

      Composer: Thomas Morley

      Ensemble: Symphony of Harmony and Invention

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    21. Funeral Music: I know that my redeemer liveth

      Composer: Thomas Morley

      Ensemble: Symphony of Harmony and Invention

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    22. We brought nothing into this world

      Composer: Thomas Morley

      Ensemble: Symphony of Harmony and Invention

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    23. Funeral Music: Man that is born of a woman

      Composer: Thomas Morley

      Ensemble: Symphony of Harmony and Invention

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    24. Funeral Music: In the midst of life

      Composer: Thomas Morley

      Ensemble: Symphony of Harmony and Invention

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    25. Thou knowest, Lord, the secrets of our hearts

      Composer: Thomas Morley

      Ensemble: Symphony of Harmony and Invention

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    26. Funeral Music: Canzona, Z. 860

      Composer: Henry Purcell

      Ensemble: Symphony of Harmony and Invention

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    27. Funeral Music: I heard a voice from heaven

      Composer: Thomas Morley

      Ensemble: Symphony of Harmony and Invention

      Conductor: Harry Christophers


This disc combines some of Henry Purcell's most powerful masterpieces. Love's Goddess Sure Was Blind, an exuberant tribute to the young Queen Mary, and some of his most eloquent compositions, written for her funeral. Love's Goddess Sure was Blind, written in exuberant and florid style for the birthday of the much loved young Queen Mary ends, extraordinarily, with a reflection on the grief her eventual death would provoke. It was less than six years later that the prophesied mourning became a reality, when, in her early thirties, she succumbed to smallpox. Purcell's eloquent compositions for her funeral are acknowledged as some of his most powerful masterpieces marrying a genuine of expression of grief (Purcell greatly admired the witty, musical Mary) with a characteristic sophistication of style.