Blow: An Ode on the Death of Mr Henry Purcell
& other works
Emma Walshe (soprano), Zoë Brookshaw (soprano), Samuel Boden (tenor), Thomas Walker (tenor), William Gaunt (bass)
Arcangelo, Jonathan Cohen
Duets for high tenor seem to have been something of a Blow speciality…and in Samuel Boden and Thomas Walker, director Jonathan Cohen has harnessed a quintessentially English sound whose lyricism... — More…
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Blow: Begin the Song!
- Thomas Walker (tenor), Samuel Boden (tenor), William Gaunt (bass), Zoë Brookshaw (soprano), Callum Thorpe (bass)
- Arcangelo
- Jonathan Cohen
I. Overture
II. Begin the Song! your instruments advance –
III. Bring gentlest thoughts, that into language glide
Blow: Chaconne a 4 in G major
- Arcangelo
- Jonathan Cohen
Blow: Ode on the Death of Mr Henry Purcell
- Thomas Walker (tenor), Samuel Boden (tenor)
- Arcangelo
- Jonathan Cohen
I. Mark how the lark and linnet sing –
II. But in the close of night –
III. So ceas'd the rival crew when Purcell came –
Blow: Ground in G Minor
- Arcangelo
- Jonathan Cohen
Blow: The Nymphs of the wells
- Samuel Boden (tenor), Thomas Walker (tenor), Emma Walshe (soprano), Zoë Brookshaw (soprano), William Gaunt (bass)
- Arcangelo
- Jonathan Cohen
I. The Nymphs of the wells, and the Nymphs of the hills
II. But here comes a Druid and we must retire –
III. Blest be this morn, blest be the hand –
IV. We Nymphs of the founts and we of the mounts
Blow: Sonata in A major
- Arcangelo
- Jonathan Cohen
I. Slow –
II. [untitled] –
III. Brisk
Blow: Dread Sir, the Prince of Light
- Thomas Walker (tenor), William Gaunt (bass), Samuel Boden (tenor)
- Arcangelo
- Jonathan Cohen
I. [Symphony] –
II. Dread Sir, the Prince of Light begins to rise –
III. Let no disloyal cares his peace destroy –
IV. This message we bring