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Music for a While: Improvisations on Purcell (Vinyl LP) | Erato 9029525084

Music for a While: Improvisations on Purcell (Vinyl LP)

Label: Erato

Cat No: 9029525084

Barcode: 0190295250843

Format: LP

Number of Discs: 2

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 19th June 2020

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Contents

Artists

Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor)
Raquel Andueza (soprano)
Vincenzo Capezzuto (alto)
Dominique Visse (countertenor)
L’Arpeggiata

Conductor

Christina Pluhar

Artists

Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor)
Raquel Andueza (soprano)
Vincenzo Capezzuto (alto)
Dominique Visse (countertenor)
L’Arpeggiata

Conductor

Christina Pluhar

About

Christina Pluhar heads to the cooler climes of England with Music for a While, an album based on the haunting, graceful and sometimes deeply moving music of Henry Purcell. Often considered England’s greatest composer, Purcell (1659-1695) represents an especially good match for the aesthetic of L’Arpeggiata: he made frequent use of the ground bass, a repeated (ostinato) figure in the lower line – the most famous instance of this occurs in Dido’s lament ‘When I am laid in earth’, the closing number from his opera Dido and Aeneas. The ground bass provides an ideal foundation for the brilliant, sometimes jazz-like improvisation that is the stock-in-trade of L’Arpeggiata, here comprising singers, (plucked) strings, wind instruments, keyboard and percussion.

L’Arpeggiata:
- Doron Sherwin (cornet à bouquin)
- Veronika Skuplik (Baroque violin)
- Julien Martin (recorder)
- Marine Sablonnière (recorder)
- Eero Palviainen (archlute, Baroque guitar)
- Marcello Vitale (Baroque guitar, chitarra battente)
- Sarah Ridy (Baroque harp)
- David Mayoral (percussion)
- Sergey Saprichev (percussion)
- Michèle Claude (percussion)
- Boris Schmidt (double bass)
- Haru Kitamika (harpsichord, organ)
- Francesco Turrisi (piano, harpsichord, organ, melodica)

Special guests:
- Gianluigi Trovesi (clarinet)
- Wolfgang Muthspiel (acoustic guitar, electric guitar)

Christina Pluhar (theorbo & direction)

Tracklist:

Side A
1. ’Twas within a furlong
- Vincenzo Capezzuto
2. Music for a while
- Philippe Jaroussky
3. Strike the viol
- Raquel Andueza
4. An Evening Hymn on a Ground
- Philippe Jaroussky

Side B
1. In vain the am’rous flute
- Philippe Jaroussky, Vincenzo Capezzuto
2. A prince of glorious race descended
- Raquel Andueza
3. O solitude, my sweetest choice
- Philippe Jaroussky
4. When I am laid in earth
- Raquel Andueza

Side C
1. Wondrous machine
- Vincenzo Capezzuto
2. Here the deities approve
- Philippe Jaroussky
3. Ah! Belinda
- Raquel Andueza
4. Hark! how the songsters of the grove
- Raquel Andueza, Philippe Jaroussky
5. One charming night
- Vincenzo Capezzuto

Side D
1. Man is for the woman made
- Dominique Visse
2. O let me weep (The Plaint)
- Raquel Andueza
3. Curtain Tune on a Ground
Bonus track
4. Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen)
- Vincenzo Capezzuto

Recording: Institut Culturel Roumain de Paris, Salle Byzantine, Palais de Béhague, Paris, June 2013
Sound engineers: Mireille Faure, Frédéric Braye

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