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Purcell / Blow - Countertenor Duets | Hyperion - Helios CDH55447

Purcell / Blow - Countertenor Duets

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Label: Hyperion - Helios

Cat No: CDH55447

Barcode: 0034571154473

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 31st March 2014

Contents

Artists

James Bowman (countertenor)
Michael Chance (countertenor)
The King’s Consort

Conductor

Robert King

Works

Blow, John

Ah, heav'n! What is't I hear?
Ode on the Death of Mr Henry Purcell

Purcell, Henry

Bonduca or The British Heroine, Z574
» Sing, sing, ye druids
Come ye Sons of Art, Z323
» Sound the trumpet
Hail! Bright Cecilia, Z328
» In vain the am'rous flute
Incassum Lesbia, incassum rogas 'The Queen's Epicedium', Z383
O dive custos Auriacae domus, Z504
O solitude, my sweetest choice, Z406
The Maid's Last Prayer or Any Rather Than Fail, Z601
» No, resistance is but vain
Timon of Athens, Z632
» Hark! how the songsters of the grove

Artists

James Bowman (countertenor)
Michael Chance (countertenor)
The King’s Consort

Conductor

Robert King

About

This recording of duets by the great composers of the Restoration is one of the gems of Hyperion’s catalogue. It features the celebrated countertenors James Bowman and Michael Chance at the peak of their powers, and the combination of their two voices with the sympathetic accompaniment of The King’s Consort creates something uniquely glorious.

Purcell was a countertenor himself and in his writing for the voice produced some of his most felicitous music. John Blow, Purcell’s predecessor and successor as organist of Westminster Abbey, reached his compositional zenith with the extended duet (almost a small cantata) on the subjects of Purcell’s tragic early death and inextinguishable influence.

Gramophone Critics' Choice

A sparkling collection which shows both the composer and these fine artists in inspirational form. The performances are joyous, witty and ravishing in their Purcellian melancholy’ - The Penguin Guide to Compact Discs

A disc no baroque music anglophile will wish to be without, for it is a vocal tour de force’ - Gramophone

[from CDA66253]

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