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Purcell: Odes for St. Cecilia's Day - Music for Queen Mary / Taverner Consort
CD DetailsEdition: Music CD Audio: English (Original Language) CD Release Date: 1999-06-08 Music Label: EMI Classics Soundtracks: Music CD 1- Music For Queen Mary: Symphony
- Music For Queen Mary: Welcome To All The Pleasures
- Music For Queen Mary: Here The Deities Approve - While Joys Celestial
- Music For Queen Mary: Then Lift Up Your Voices
- Music For Queen Mary: Beauty, Thou Scene of Love
- Music For Queen Mary: In A Consort Of Voices
- Music For Queen Mary: Man That Is Born Of A Woman
- Music For Queen Mary: In The Midst Of Life
- Music For Queen Mary: Thou Knowest, Lord
- Music For Queen Mary: Symphony (Adagio - Allegro) - Adagio
- Music For Queen Mary: Come Ye Sons Of Art
- Music For Queen Mary: Sound The Trumpet
- Music For Queen Mary: Come Ye Sons Of Art
- Music For Queen Mary: Strike The Viol
- Music For Queen Mary: The Day That Such A Blessing Gave
- Music For Queen Mary: Bid The Virtues
- Music For Queen Mary: These Are The Sacred Charms
- Music For Queen Mary: See, Nature, Rejoicing
- Music For Queen Mary: March
- Music For Queen Mary: Thou Knowest, Lord
- Music For Queen Mary: Canzona
Music CD 2- Odes For St. Cecilia's Day: Symphony (Introduction) - Canzona & Adagio - Allegro - Grave - Allegro
- Odes For St. Cecilia's Day: Hail! Bright Cecilia
- Odes For St. Cecilia's Day: Hark! Hark! Each Tree
- Odes For St. Cecilia's Day: 'Tis Nature's Voice
- Odes For St. Cecilia's Day: Soul Of The World
- Odes For St. Cecilia's Day: Thou Tun'st This World Below
- Odes For St. Cecilia's Day: With That Sublime Celestial Lay
- Odes For St. Cecilia's Day: Voluntary - In D Minor - Wonderous Machine!
- Odes For St. Cecilia's Day: The Airy Violin
- Odes For St. Cecilia's Day: In Vain The An'rous Flute
- Odes For St. Cecilia's Day: The Fife And All The Harmony Of War
- Odes For St. Cecilia's Day: Let These Amongst Themselves Contest
- Odes For St. Cecilia's Day: Hail! Bright Cecilia
- Odes For St. Cecilia's Day: With Rapture Of Delight - Hail! Bright Cecilia
Music reviews of Purcell: Odes for St. Cecilia's Day - Music for Queen Mary / Taverner ConsortMusic Review: a voice teacher and early music fan Rating: 3 Stars
PARROTT'S USE OF HIGH TENORS RATHER THAN FALSETTISTS ON PURCELL'S LOW-LYING 'COUNTERTENOR' PARTS IS CONSIDERED A LANDMARK!
This is a 2 CD package which involves 2 different recording dates and recording groups. Disc l: Odes "Welcome to all the Pleasures"-"Funeral Sentences"-"Come Ye sons of Art"-"Funeral Music for Queen Mary". The singers on this disc are:Emily Evera(soprano),Timothy Wilson (countertenor),John Mark Ainsley(tenor),Charles Daniels (tenor) and David Thomas (bass). It was recorded in 1988,
Disc 2: ode "Hail Bright Cecelia" with singers Emma Kirkby (soprano),Michael Chance , Kevin Smith (countertenors),Paul Elliot, Neil Jenkins, Andrew King (tenors)and Michael George, Richard Wistreich (basses).This disc was recorded in 1985. Contrary to Westphal's opinion, I do not like tenors to be given solos that should be sung by countertenors; the quality of the tenor voice is not light enough for these tunes. Of course, this is a personal reaction on my part, and is why I would not give this recording five stars. But, to be fair, the general reaction among critics has been very favorable, so I may be the only one in the world that feels this way.
An example of the previously mention practice employed by Parrott on this disc (one) involves the duet"Sound the Trumpet" that is most often sung happily, I think, by a 'high' countertenor and a 'low countertenor' such as James Bowman and Michael Chance, who can sing either part effortlessly. However, on this recording it is sung by falsettist: Timothy Wilson and high tenor: John Mark Ainsley; both excellent singers. So it's all in what you prefer.
Excellent performances of the Funeral Sentences and Funeral Music for Queen Mary are here as well, but the centerpiece of this set is 'Hail Bright Cecelia', the longest and most colorful of Purcell's odes in praise of the patron saint of music. All twelve soloists are enjoyable to hear especially: Emma Kirkby, Michael Chance, John Mark Ainsley,Timothy Wilson and Emily Van Evera.
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Description of Purcell: Odes for St. Cecilia's Day - Music for Queen Mary / Taverner ConsortAll products are BRAND NEW and factory sealed. Fast shipping and 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed. Andrew Parrott and his Taverner Consort, Choir, and Players have made some of the finest Purcell recordings to have appeared since the period-instrument revival began; unfortunately, most of those discs had been out of print for years. Happily, Virgin has reissued some of Parrott's best work on this reasonably priced two-for-one release. The performances aren't just exemplary, they're something of a landmark: in them Parrott pioneered the now-standard practice of using high tenors rather than falsettists on some of Purcell's low-lying "countertenor" parts. (One example is "Sound the trumpet," a duet for "high" and "low" countertenors from Purcell's ode Come, ye sons of art, sung by falsettist Timothy Wilson and high tenor John Mark Ainsley.) Excellent performances of the Funeral Sentences and Funeral Music for Queen Mary are here as well, but the centerpiece of this set is Hail, bright Cecilia!, the longest and most colorful of Purcell's odes in praise of the patron saint of music. There is some serious competition here--Paul McCreesh and Philippe Herreweghe have made superb recordings of this work--but Parrott edges them out. For example, alone among the ode's conductors on record, Parrott interpolates an organ solo amidst all of the text's praise of the organ (an instrument St. Cecilia was thought to have invented); he also provides appealing variety by using 12 different soloists (as Purcell did at the premiere). Those soloists are an impressive lot--they include Emma Kirkby, David Thomas, Paul Elliott and Charles Daniels (gently enchanting in the tenor duet "In vain the am'rous Flute"), and the Hilliard Ensemble's Rogers Covey-Crump, who gives an extraordinary rendition of the famous and fearsomely difficult air "'Tis Nature's Voice." --Matthew Westphal
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