Purcell: Come all ye songsters
Recorded live at Wigmore Hall, London, on 17 March 2015
Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Elizabeth Kenny (lute), Jonathan Manson (viol) & Laurence Cummings (harpsichord)
of course it’s soprano Carolyn Sampson’s peerless Purcell that steals the show – whether inhabiting tortured madness, or the airborne, caressing grace of an opening set from The Fairy Queen.... — More…
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Purcell: The Fairy Queen, Z. 629, Act 2
- Laurence Cummings, Jonathan Manson, Elizabeth Kenny, Carolyn Sampson
Come All Ye Songsters
Sing While We Trip It
A Dance of Fairies
Purcell: The Fairy Queen, Z. 629, Act 3: Ye Gentle Spirits of the Air
- Laurence Cummings, Jonathan Manson, Elizabeth Kenny, Carolyn Sampson
Purcell: Suite No. 5 in C major, Z 666
- Laurence Cummings
I. Prelude
II. Almand
III. Corant
IV. Saraband
V. Jig
Purcell: Timon of Athens, Z. 632: The Cares of Lovers
- Elizabeth Kenny, Carolyn Sampson
Purcell: Fly swift ye hours, Z369
- Laurence Cummings, Jonathan Manson, Carolyn Sampson
Purcell: Not all my torments can your pity move, Z400
- Laurence Cummings, Elizabeth Kenny, Carolyn Sampson
Draghi, G B: An Italian Ground
- Jonathan Manson, Elizabeth Kenny
Purcell: Don Quixote, Z. 578, Act 4
- Laurence Cummings, Jonathan Manson, Elizabeth Kenny, Carolyn Sampson
From Rosy Bow'rs
Let the Dreadful Engines of Eternal Will
Purcell: The Fairy Queen, Z. 629, Act 2 "Princess Anne's Lute Book": Mystery
- Elizabeth Kenny
Purcell: The Fairy Queen, Z. 629, Act 3: If Love's a Sweet Passion
- Elizabeth Kenny
