La Rêveuse, Benjamin Perrot & Florence Bolton - Purcell: Devotional Songs & Anthems (2015) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist
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01. Hear me, O Lord, the great support, Z.133 (devotional song)
02. O, I’m sick of life, Z.140 (devotional song)
03. Since God so tender a regard, Z143 (devotional song)
04. I. Adagio
05. II. Allegro
06. III. Adagio-Allegro-Adagio
07. Plung’d in the confines of despair, Z.142 (devotional song)
08. Blessed is he that considereth the poor, Z.7 (anthem)
09. The Aspiration: How long, great God, Z.189 (devotional song)
10. Division No. 8 in G Major
11. When on my sick bed I languish, Z.144 (devotional song)
12. With sick and famish’d eyes, Z.200 (devotional song)
13. Division in G Minor RI-140
14. I was glad, Z.19 (Harmonia Sacra version, anthem)
15. Lord, not to us, Z.137 (anthem)


Composers
Finger, Gottfried (c.1660-1730)
Purcell, Henry (1659-95)

Purcell’s devotional songs for three male voices are still little known and shrouded in a certain mystery. Yet these meditations on the frailty of human existence are among his finest and most moving works. Gifted with profound intuition of the emotions that can emerge from the union of text and music, this formidable composer, who understood and served the vocal music of his time so well, continues here the work begun by the masters of the preceding generation such as Henry Lawes.

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