Purcell: Odes for St. Cecilia's Day - Music for Queen Mary / Taverner Consort
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Edition: Music CDCD Release Date: 1999-06-08
Music Label: EMI Classics
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Music CD 1
- Welcome to all the pleasures (An Ode for St. Cecilia's Day), for soloists, chorus & instruments, Z. 339: Symphony
- Welcome to all the pleasures (An Ode for St. Cecilia's Day), for soloists, chorus & instruments, Z. 339: Welcome to all the pleasures
- Welcome to all the pleasures (An Ode for St. Cecilia's Day), for soloists, chorus & instruments, Z. 339: Here the deities approve-Whi
- Welcome to all the pleasures (An Ode for St. Cecilia's Day), for soloists, chorus & instruments, Z. 339: Then lift up your voices
- Welcome to all the pleasures (An Ode for St. Cecilia's Day), for soloists, chorus & instruments, Z. 339: Beauty, thou scene of love
- Welcome to all the pleasures (An Ode for St. Cecilia's Day), for soloists, chorus & instruments, Z. 339: In a consort of voices
- Funeral Sentences (for the funeral of Queen Mary), Z. 27: Man that is born of a woman
- Funeral Sentences (for the funeral of Queen Mary), Z. 27: In the midst of life
- Funeral Sentences (for the funeral of Queen Mary), Z. 27: Thou knowest, Lord
- Come ye sons of art away (Birthday ode for Queen Mary), for soloists, chorus & instruments, Z. 323: Overture
- Come ye sons of art away (Birthday ode for Queen Mary), for soloists, chorus & instruments, Z. 323: Come, ye sons of art, away
- Come ye sons of art away (Birthday ode for Queen Mary), for soloists, chorus & instruments, Z. 323: Sound the trumpet, sound
- Come ye sons of art away (Birthday ode for Queen Mary), for soloists, chorus & instruments, Z. 323: Come, ye sons of art
- Come ye sons of art away (Birthday ode for Queen Mary), for soloists, chorus & instruments, Z. 323: Strike the viol, touch the lute
- Come ye sons of art away (Birthday ode for Queen Mary), for soloists, chorus & instruments, Z. 323: The day that such a blessing gave
- Come ye sons of art away (Birthday ode for Queen Mary), for soloists, chorus & instruments, Z. 323: Bid the Virtues, bid the Graces
- Come ye sons of art away (Birthday ode for Queen Mary), for soloists, chorus & instruments, Z. 323: These are the sacred charms
- Come ye sons of art away (Birthday ode for Queen Mary), for soloists, chorus & instruments, Z. 323: See Nature rejoicing
- Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary, march and canzona for orchestra, Z. 860: March
- Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary, march and canzona for orchestra, Z. 860: Thou knowest, Lord
- Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary, march and canzona for orchestra, Z. 860: Canzona
- Hail, bright Cecilia (Ode for St. Cecilia's Day), for soloists, chorus & instruments, Z. 328: No. 1, "Symphony": a, (Grave)... b, (Ca
- Hail, bright Cecilia (Ode for St. Cecilia's Day), for soloists, chorus & instruments, Z. 328: Hail, bright Cecilia
- Hail, bright Cecilia (Ode for St. Cecilia's Day), for soloists, chorus & instruments, Z. 328: Hark each tree
- Hail, bright Cecilia (Ode for St. Cecilia's Day), for soloists, chorus & instruments, Z. 328: No. 4, "'Tis Nature's voice" (alto)
- Hail, bright Cecilia (Ode for St. Cecilia's Day), for soloists, chorus & instruments, Z. 328: No. 5, "Soul of the world" (chorus)
- Hail, bright Cecilia (Ode for St. Cecilia's Day), for soloists, chorus & instruments, Z. 328: Thou tun'st this world
- Hail, bright Cecilia (Ode for St. Cecilia's Day), for soloists, chorus & instruments, Z. 328: No. 7, "With that sublime celestial lay
- Hail, bright Cecilia (Ode for St. Cecilia's Day), for soloists, chorus & instruments, Z. 328: Wond'rous machine
- Hail, bright Cecilia (Ode for St. Cecilia's Day), for soloists, chorus & instruments, Z. 328: No. 9, "The airy violin and lofty viol"
- Hail, bright Cecilia (Ode for St. Cecilia's Day), for soloists, chorus & instruments, Z. 328: In vain the am'rous flute
- Hail, bright Cecilia (Ode for St. Cecilia's Day), for soloists, chorus & instruments, Z. 328: The fife and all the harmony
- Hail, bright Cecilia (Ode for St. Cecilia's Day), for soloists, chorus & instruments, Z. 328: No. 12, "Let these among themselves con
- Hail, bright Cecilia (Ode for St. Cecilia's Day), for soloists, chorus & instruments, Z. 328: No. 13, "Hail, bright Cecilia" (chorus)
- Hail, bright Cecilia (Ode for St. Cecilia's Day), for soloists, chorus & instruments, Z. 328: No. 14, "With rapture of delight" (2 al
Music reviews of Purcell: Odes for St. Cecilia's Day - Music for Queen Mary / Taverner Consort
Music Review: Unrivalled recording......uncommon brilliance.
Rating: 5 Stars
The mind boggles when listening to Purcell. Certainly his was a genius that could vie with any great contrapuntist. It is sad that he had to go so early in his life. But then I guess we wouldn't have seen the rise and rise of Handel.
Having said that, this recording is a marvellous one, one of uncommon brilliance I might add. It does not represent a summary of his work and style, even if restricted to just his vocal music, such was the originality and fertility of his invention. But it is revealing of the enormity of his command of music. Why this composer isn't as well-known as Mozart or Bach, or yes even Handel, I will never know.
I assure all that the quality of these recordings is unrivalled. Careful attention is paid to detail, and a first-rate line up of soloists ensures a world-class performance. I give this recording 5 stars out of five, for a stunning example of excellence and high standards.
Description of Purcell: Odes for St. Cecilia's Day - Music for Queen Mary / Taverner Consort
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 WestphalGeneral CDs
- Styles > Classical
- Featured Composers, A-Z > ( P ) > Purcell, Henry
- Historical Periods > Baroque (c.1600-1750) > Composers > Purcell, Henry
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- Opera & Vocal > General
- Divas > Kirkby, Emma
- Vocal Non-Opera > Odes
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