Purcell: Close thine Eyes

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Release Date: 8th Apr 2013
Catalogue No: STR33931
Label: Stradivarius
Length: 63 minutes

Purcell: Beginn the song, The Resurrection

Work length8:18

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Pietro Prosser, Peter Kooij

Banister: Ground

Work length5:40

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Pietro Prosser

Purcell: Tell me, some pitying angel (The Blessed Virgin's Expostulation), Z196

Work length7:13

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Pietro Prosser, Joanna Klisowska

Purcell: Suite for harpsichord, in G major

Work length3:34

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Lorenzo Feder

I. Prelude

Track length0:29

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II. Almand

Track length1:03

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III. Corant

Track length1:02

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IV. Saraband

Track length1:00

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Purcell: Close thine eyes and sleep secure, Z184

Work length3:33

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Pietro Prosser, Joanna Klisowska

Purcell: Two in One upon a Ground

Work length2:48

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Lorenzo Feder, Cristiano Contadin, Pietro Prosser

Purcell: Lord what is a man?

Work length5:24

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Pietro Prosser, Joanna Klisowska

Antony Poole: Air with division su basso di follia

Work length4:44

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Pietro Prosser, Cristiano Contadin

Purcell: Music for a while, Z583

Work length3:39

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Pietro Prosser, Peter Kooij

Purcell: Ground for harpsichord

Work length3:44

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Lorenzo Feder

Purcell: Sweeter than Roses (from Pausanius, the Betrayer of his Country, Z585)

Work length3:04

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Pietro Prosser, Joanna Klisowska

Finger: Sonata No. 4, in D Minor

Work length7:28

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Pietro Prosser, Cristiano Contadin

I. Adagio

Track length2:12

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II. Allegro

Track length1:49

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III. Adagio

Track length1:37

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IV. Allegro

Track length0:29

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V. Adagio

Track length1:21

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Purcell: An Evening Hymn 'Now that the sun hath veiled his light', Z193

Work length3:59

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Pietro Prosser, Peter Kooij

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The myth of Purcell, the 'Orpheus Britannicus', the most important musician born in England before Britten in the 20th century, is strengthened also by its likening to the biography of Mozart: they died a century apart at less than 36 years of age and produced in such a short time a staggering number of compositions: 626 works for the Austrian, 871 for the Englishman.

The pieces chosen for this CD illustrate precisely an intimate repertory, with no division between sacred and profane, in the same ideal arrangement together with instrumental pieces of Purcell’s contemporaries, precisely the way in which it might happen in London in a private performance of the time. These composers are John Banister (pioneer of music for the violin at the court of Charles II, died in 1679), Gottfried or Godfrey Finger (Moravian violinist and composer who lived until 1730) and Antony Poole (almost unknown Jesuit and musician formed in Spanish Flanders and who lived until 1692), the last two active at the court of James II (1685-88) and thus colleagues of the 25-year-old Henry. Purcell himself is well represented with some of his instrumental compositions including the famous set of variations 'Two in one upon a ground', a chaconne taken from the third act of 'The Prophetess', or 'The History of Dioclesian' (1690), which in this recording uses an unpublished lute part taken from a manuscript now in Poznan in Poland.

Purcell: Close thine Eyes

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