Henry Purcell Essentials

Henry Purcell Essentials

Apple Music Classical

In the grand tradition of melancholic music, there may not be a more gloriously bummed-out sound than the work of this English master. An early genius of ostinati and the low end, his propulsive music has been an influence not just on his Baroque contemporaries, but also on Benjamin Britten and the American post-minimalist Nico Muhly (who arranged “Let the Night Perish” and incorporated Purcell's Psalm 102 into a symphonic work). Not surprisingly, Purcell's acrobatic, graceful writing for the voice has long enchanted top singers like Alfred Deller and Kathleen Battle.

Symphony - Prelude / Canzona / Largo / Allegro / Adagio / Allegro

Gabrieli Consort & Players, Paul McCreesh

6:12

Sound the Trumpet

Stefano Montanari, Christophe Dumaux, Andreas Scholl, Accademia Bizantina

3:00

"Fairest Isle" - (Venus)

Barbara Bonney, Christopher Hogwood, Academy of Ancient Music

2:35

II. Rondeau (Abdelazer, or the Moor's Revenge Z. 570 No. 2)

Andrew Parrott, Taverner Consort

1:34

When I am laid in earth (Dido)

Susan Graham, Emmanuelle Haïm, Le Concert d'Astrée

3:50

With drooping wings (Chorus)

Simon Halsey, european voices, Le Concert d'Astrée, Emmanuelle Haïm

2:16

If Music Be the Food of Love, Z. 379c

Rowan Pierce, Richard Egarr

3:29

Hark! Hark! the Echoing Air

Sylvia McNair, Academy of Ancient Music, Crispian Steele-Perkins, Christopher Hogwood, Laurence Dreyfus, Paul O'Dette

2:24

Musick for a While

Dame Sarah Connolly, Harry Bicket

4:02

My beloved spake, Z. 28

Iestyn Davies, Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge, David Stout, Andrew Nethsingha, James Gilchrist, Cambridge, John Challenger, Neal Davies

11:22

The Queen's Funeral March, Z. 860

Jean-François Madeuf, Les Trompettes des Plaisirs

2:47

Chaconne

Ensemble les Surprises, Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas

3:14

Aria. "The Fife and All the Harmony of War"

Andrew King, Taverner Consort, Andrew Parrott

3:10

Hear My Prayer, O Lord, Z. 15

The Sixteen, Harry Christophers

2:28

"Sweeter Than Roses", Z.585

Dame Emma Kirkby, Anthony Rooley

3:12

Chorus. Detruction's Our Delight

MusicAeterna, Vyacheslav Podyelsky, Teodor Currentzis, The New Siberian Singers

0:29

The Witches' Dance

MusicAeterna, Teodor Currentzis

2:09

"'Tis Nature's Voice"

Tim Mead, François Lazarevitch, Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien

4:49

Come, ye sons of art, away

Trevor Pinnock, The English Concert Choir, The English Concert, Michael Chance

1:41

The Plaint: O let me weep

Anne-Marie Lasla, Laurence Cummings, Elizabeth Kenny, Carolyn Sampson, Sarah Sexton

7:28

Third Act "What power art thou"

William Christie, Petteri Salomaa, Les Arts Florissants

4:08

No. 3, Here the Deities Approve (Live)

Iestyn Davies, Mark Levy, Bojan Čičić, Richard Egarr, William Carter, Julia Kuhn, Stephen Pedder

4:12

VI. Autumn: 'See My Many Colour'd Fields'

Andrew Parrott, Taverner Consort

3:11

In Nomine à 7 in G Minor, Z. 747

4:02

Thou knowest Lord, Z58B (1682)

Winchester Cathedral Choir, David Hill, Baroque Brass Of London

2:12