Ruby Hughes, Allan Clayton, Joseph Middleton - Purcell Songs realised by Britten (2016)
BAND/ARTIST: Robin Blaze, Allan Clayton, Anna Grevelius, Ruby Hughes, Benedict Nelson, Matthew Rose, Joseph Middleton
- Title: Purcell Songs realised by Britten
- Year Of Release: 2016
- Label: Champs Hill Records
- Genre: Classical Piano
- Quality: flac lossless (tracks) +Booklet
- Total Time: 02:21:32
- Total Size: 532 mb
- WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist
CD1
01. Job’s Curse, Z. 191
02. The Blessed Virgin’s Expostulation, Z. 196
03. Saul and the Witch at Endor, Z. 134
04. A Morning Hymn, Z. 198
05. Alleluia, Z. S14
06. In the Black Dismal Dungeon of Despair, Z. 190
07. Lord, What is Man? Z. 192
08. We Sing to Him Whose Wisdom Form'd the Ear, Z. 199
09. Evening Hymn, Z. 193
10. The Queen's Epicdeium, Z. 383
11. Turn Then Thine Eyes Z. 425
12. Mad Bess, Z. 370
13. The Fairy Queen, Z. 629: Hark the Ech’ing Air!,
14. The Indian Queen, Z. 630: I Attempt from Love’s Sickness to Fly
15. King Arthur, Z. 628: How Blest are Shepherds
16. Let the Dreadful Engines of Eternal Will, Z. 578
CD2
01. If Music Be the Food of Love, Z. 379A
02. Sound the Trumpet, Z. 323
03. If Music Be the Food of Love, Z. 379C
04. O Solitude, Z. 306
05. Music for a While, Z. 583
06. King Arthur, Z. 628: Fairest Isle
07. A Fool’s Preferment, Z. 571: I’ll Sail Upon the Dog-Star,
08. On the Brow of Richmond Hill, Z. 405
09. King Arthur, Z. 628: Shepherd, Leave Decoying
10. The Knotting Song, Z. 371
11. Not All My Torments, Z. 400
12. Pious Celinda, Z. 410
13. There’s Not a Swain of the Plain, Z. 587
14. Man is For the Woman Made, Z. 605
15. I Take no Pleasure, Z. 388
16. The Rival Sisters, Z. 609: Take Not a Woman’s Anger Ill
17. Celemene, Pray Tell Me, Z. 584
18. I Spy Celia, Z. 499
19. What Can We Poor Females Do?, Z. 518
20. Dulcibella, Whene’er I Sue For a Kiss, Z. 485
21. When Myra Sings, Z. 521
22. Pausanius, Z. 585: Sweeter Than Roses
23. No, Resistance is But Vain, Z. 601
24. Lost is My Quiet, Z. 502
Joseph Middleton leads an exceptional group of singers in a new 2-CD anthology of Benjamin Britten’s realisations of the songs of Henry Purcell.
Middleton writes that: “priceless to subsequent generations of performers, the result of the Purcell/Britten marriage wedded the greatest British Baroque composer with the 20th century’s finest British song composer in a totally idiosyncratic, vivid and bold way. As Britten wrote, his intention was to ‘apply to these realizations something of that mixture of clarity, brilliance, tenderness and strangeness which shines out in all Purcell’s music,’ Of course the same adjectives can just as well be applied to Britten’s writing.”
This marks the 100th release by Champs Hill Records, an independent label that since 2010 has firmly established its commitment to releasing recordings by young artists and new or under-represented repertoire, most of which (as with this recording) comes from their private 160-concert hall in West Sussex.
CD1
01. Job’s Curse, Z. 191
02. The Blessed Virgin’s Expostulation, Z. 196
03. Saul and the Witch at Endor, Z. 134
04. A Morning Hymn, Z. 198
05. Alleluia, Z. S14
06. In the Black Dismal Dungeon of Despair, Z. 190
07. Lord, What is Man? Z. 192
08. We Sing to Him Whose Wisdom Form'd the Ear, Z. 199
09. Evening Hymn, Z. 193
10. The Queen's Epicdeium, Z. 383
11. Turn Then Thine Eyes Z. 425
12. Mad Bess, Z. 370
13. The Fairy Queen, Z. 629: Hark the Ech’ing Air!,
14. The Indian Queen, Z. 630: I Attempt from Love’s Sickness to Fly
15. King Arthur, Z. 628: How Blest are Shepherds
16. Let the Dreadful Engines of Eternal Will, Z. 578
CD2
01. If Music Be the Food of Love, Z. 379A
02. Sound the Trumpet, Z. 323
03. If Music Be the Food of Love, Z. 379C
04. O Solitude, Z. 306
05. Music for a While, Z. 583
06. King Arthur, Z. 628: Fairest Isle
07. A Fool’s Preferment, Z. 571: I’ll Sail Upon the Dog-Star,
08. On the Brow of Richmond Hill, Z. 405
09. King Arthur, Z. 628: Shepherd, Leave Decoying
10. The Knotting Song, Z. 371
11. Not All My Torments, Z. 400
12. Pious Celinda, Z. 410
13. There’s Not a Swain of the Plain, Z. 587
14. Man is For the Woman Made, Z. 605
15. I Take no Pleasure, Z. 388
16. The Rival Sisters, Z. 609: Take Not a Woman’s Anger Ill
17. Celemene, Pray Tell Me, Z. 584
18. I Spy Celia, Z. 499
19. What Can We Poor Females Do?, Z. 518
20. Dulcibella, Whene’er I Sue For a Kiss, Z. 485
21. When Myra Sings, Z. 521
22. Pausanius, Z. 585: Sweeter Than Roses
23. No, Resistance is But Vain, Z. 601
24. Lost is My Quiet, Z. 502
Joseph Middleton leads an exceptional group of singers in a new 2-CD anthology of Benjamin Britten’s realisations of the songs of Henry Purcell.
Middleton writes that: “priceless to subsequent generations of performers, the result of the Purcell/Britten marriage wedded the greatest British Baroque composer with the 20th century’s finest British song composer in a totally idiosyncratic, vivid and bold way. As Britten wrote, his intention was to ‘apply to these realizations something of that mixture of clarity, brilliance, tenderness and strangeness which shines out in all Purcell’s music,’ Of course the same adjectives can just as well be applied to Britten’s writing.”
This marks the 100th release by Champs Hill Records, an independent label that since 2010 has firmly established its commitment to releasing recordings by young artists and new or under-represented repertoire, most of which (as with this recording) comes from their private 160-concert hall in West Sussex.
Year 2016 | Classical | FLAC / APE
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