Purcell: Royal Welcome Songs for King Charles II, Vol. 2 / Christophers, The Sixteen Choir

$15.99
Label
Coro
Release Date
September 6, 2019
Format
Added to Cart! View cart or continue shopping.


    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      PURCELL, HENRY
    • PERFORMER
      The Sixteen, Christophers
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      September 06, 2019
    • UPC
      828021617324
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      COR16173
    • LABEL
      Coro
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Hear my prayer, O Lord, Z. 15

      Composer: Henry Purcell

      Ensemble: The Sixteen Choir

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    2. O solitude, my sweetest choice, Z. 406

      Composer: Henry Purcell

      Ensemble: The Sixteen Choir

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    3. Lord, how long wilt thou be angry, Z. 25

      Composer: Henry Purcell

      Ensemble: The Sixteen Choir

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    4. Pavan in G Minor, Z. 752

      Composer: Henry Purcell

      Ensemble: The Sixteen Choir

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    5. Plung'd in the confines of despair, Z. 142

      Composer: Henry Purcell

      Ensemble: The Sixteen Choir

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    6. Symphony

      Composer: Henry Purcell

      Ensemble: The Sixteen Choir

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    7. Welcome to all the pleasures

      Composer: Henry Purcell

      Ensemble: The Sixteen Choir

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    8. Here the deities approve

      Composer: Henry Purcell

      Ensemble: The Sixteen Choir

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    9. While joys celestial

      Composer: Henry Purcell

      Ensemble: The Sixteen Choir

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    10. Beauty, thou scene of love

      Composer: Henry Purcell

      Ensemble: The Sixteen Choir

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    11. In a consort of voices

      Composer: Henry Purcell

      Ensemble: The Sixteen Choir

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    12. In thee, O Lord, do I put my trust, Z. 16

      Composer: Henry Purcell

      Ensemble: The Sixteen Choir

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    13. From silent shades, and the Elysian groves, Z. 370, "Bess of Bedlam"

      Composer: Henry Purcell

      Ensemble: The Sixteen Choir

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    14. Of all the instruments that are, Z. 263

      Composer: Henry Purcell

      Ensemble: The Sixteen Choir

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    15. Symphony

      Composer: Henry Purcell

      Ensemble: The Sixteen Choir

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    16. From Hardy Climes

      Composer: Henry Purcell

      Ensemble: The Sixteen Choir

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    17. As Fame, Great Sir

      Composer: Henry Purcell

      Ensemble: The Sixteen Choir

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    18. Wake Then, My Muse!

      Composer: Henry Purcell

      Ensemble: The Sixteen Choir

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    19. The Sparrow and the Gentle Dove

      Composer: Henry Purcell

      Ensemble: The Sixteen Choir

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    20. So All the Boons

      Composer: Henry Purcell

      Ensemble: The Sixteen Choir

      Conductor: Harry Christophers


On this release, Harry Christophers and The Sixteen continue their exploration of Purcell’s stunning music written for royal occasions on the third album in their acclaimed series. King Charles II liked to project a strong, stable, divinely legitimated image. Whilst that image had no basis in reality, the scale of his deception and financial skulduggery did not emerge until 19th-century historians discovered secret treaty documents between Charles and King Louis XIV of France. Purcell had no idea of course, and so all of the music on this album celebrates the political triumphs that he and his colleagues thought they had witnessed. It includes the quite brilliant Welcome Songs 'Welcome to all the pleasures' (with its superb six-part fanfares to St Cecilia in the final chorus) and 'From hardy climes'.