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Purcell - Music for Queen Mary, Come Ye Sons of Art (Vinyl LP) | Erato 9029668504

Purcell - Music for Queen Mary, Come Ye Sons of Art (Vinyl LP)

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Label: Erato

Cat No: 9029668504

Barcode: 0190296685040

Format: LP

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 11th February 2022

Contents

Artists

Felicity Lott (soprano)
Charles Brett (countertenor)
John Williams (countertenor)
Thomas Allen (bass)
Equale Brass Ensemble
Monteverdi Choir
Monteverdi Orchestra

Conductor

John Eliot Gardiner

Works

Purcell, Henry

Come ye Sons of Art, Z323
Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary, Z860

Artists

Felicity Lott (soprano)
Charles Brett (countertenor)
John Williams (countertenor)
Thomas Allen (bass)
Equale Brass Ensemble
Monteverdi Choir
Monteverdi Orchestra

Conductor

John Eliot Gardiner

About

*** Vinyl LP ***

Michel Garcin, Erato’s renowned artistic director from 1953 on, was the first to provide Sir John Eliot Gardiner a really productive canvas on which to express himself. They embarked on a fruitful period of collaboration in 1975 and in February 1976 recorded a first LP together: dedicated to Purcell and entitled “Music for Queen Mary”, it went on to achieve legendary status.

On this 33 rpm record of two odes composed by Purcell in homage to Queen Mary, the natural rhythmic and gently expressive qualities in the artistry of Gardiner beguile the listener, while in the Funeral Sentences he achieves a completely dazzling delicacy of balance and lightness of touch. Considered back in the 1970s as one of the best, the polyphony of the Monteverdi Choir too retains a serenely luminous clarity.

“The singing of the Monteverdi Choir is superlatively good and they have been well recorded. A splendid record.” – Gramophone

Recorded: II.1976, Rosslyn Hill Chapel, London / STEREO
Producer: Michel Garcin
Balance engineer: Peter Willemöes
Editing: Françoise Garcin

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