Purcell: Royal Welcome Songs for King James II - Baroque Choral Music Album by The Sixteen | Perfect for Classical Music Lovers, Historical Performances & Special Occasions
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Despite being written for the celebration of royal occasions, Purcell’s Royal Welcome Songs were penned during a time of immense disillusionment with the monarchy. Filled with humour as well as an ironic detachment from the politics of the time, Ye tuneful muses and Sound the trumpet fizz with the dramatic energy which characterised his later operas and mark a crucial turning point in Purcell’s career.
This programme showcases the variety and diversity of Purcell’s writing, opening with the Chacony in G minor, which is among the great glories of music for strings, and including When on my sick bed I languish - an amazingly impassioned piece in which he bares his soul...quintessential Purcell!
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The Sixteen Harry Christophers
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Track Listing:
Henry Purcell (1659-95)
1. Chacony in G minor, Z730 (c.1678)
2. When on my sick bed I languish, Z144 (1677–8)
3. True Englishmen drink a good health (Catch No. 45), Z284
Welcome Song - Ye tuneful Muses, raise your heads, Z344 (1686) 4. Symphony 5. Ye tuneful Muses, raise your heads! 6. This point of time ends all your grief 7. In his just praise your noblest songs let fall 8. Try, try ev’ry strain 9. From the rattling of drums and the trumpet’s loud sounds 10. With him he brings the partner of his throne 11. Happy in a mutual love 12. Whilst in music and verse our duty we show
13. A New Irish Tune in G (‘Lilliburlero’), Z646 14. God is gone up with a merry noise (Canon a 7), Z107
15. A New Scotch Tune in G, Z655
16. Save me, O God, for thy name’s sake, Z51 (1677)
Welcome Song: Sound the trumpet, beat the drum Z335 (1687) 17. Symphony 18. Sound the trumpet, beat the drum 19. Crown the year, and crown the day 20. To Caesar all hail, unequall’d in arms! 21. Let Caesar and Urania live 22. What greater bliss can Fate bestow 23. While Caesar, like the morning star 24. To Urania and Caesar delights without measure
