Purcell: Odes for St. Cecilia's Day - Music for Queen Mary / Taverner Consort

Purcell: Odes for St. Cecilia's Day - Music for Queen Mary / Taverner Consort

Purcell: Odes for St. Cecilia's Day - Music for Queen Mary / Taverner Consort
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Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 1999-06-08
Music Label: EMI Classics
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Music For Queen Mary: Symphony
  2. Music For Queen Mary: Welcome To All The Pleasures
  3. Music For Queen Mary: Here The Deities Approve - While Joys Celestial
  4. Music For Queen Mary: Then Lift Up Your Voices
  5. Music For Queen Mary: Beauty, Thou Scene of Love
  6. Music For Queen Mary: In A Consort Of Voices
  7. Music For Queen Mary: Man That Is Born Of A Woman
  8. Music For Queen Mary: In The Midst Of Life
  9. Music For Queen Mary: Thou Knowest, Lord
  10. Music For Queen Mary: Symphony (Adagio - Allegro) - Adagio
  11. Music For Queen Mary: Come Ye Sons Of Art
  12. Music For Queen Mary: Sound The Trumpet
  13. Music For Queen Mary: Come Ye Sons Of Art
  14. Music For Queen Mary: Strike The Viol
  15. Music For Queen Mary: The Day That Such A Blessing Gave
  16. Music For Queen Mary: Bid The Virtues
  17. Music For Queen Mary: These Are The Sacred Charms
  18. Music For Queen Mary: See, Nature, Rejoicing
  19. Music For Queen Mary: March
  20. Music For Queen Mary: Thou Knowest, Lord
  21. Music For Queen Mary: Canzona
Music CD 2
  1. Odes For St. Cecilia's Day: Symphony (Introduction) - Canzona & Adagio - Allegro - Grave - Allegro
  2. Odes For St. Cecilia's Day: Hail! Bright Cecilia
  3. Odes For St. Cecilia's Day: Hark! Hark! Each Tree
  4. Odes For St. Cecilia's Day: 'Tis Nature's Voice
  5. Odes For St. Cecilia's Day: Soul Of The World
  6. Odes For St. Cecilia's Day: Thou Tun'st This World Below
  7. Odes For St. Cecilia's Day: With That Sublime Celestial Lay
  8. Odes For St. Cecilia's Day: Voluntary - In D Minor - Wonderous Machine!
  9. Odes For St. Cecilia's Day: The Airy Violin
  10. Odes For St. Cecilia's Day: In Vain The An'rous Flute
  11. Odes For St. Cecilia's Day: The Fife And All The Harmony Of War
  12. Odes For St. Cecilia's Day: Let These Amongst Themselves Contest
  13. Odes For St. Cecilia's Day: Hail! Bright Cecilia
  14. Odes For St. Cecilia's Day: With Rapture Of Delight - Hail! Bright Cecilia

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Free Music Review: Awesome! A high tenor paradise
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What a wonderful recording! The lineup of soloists is simply stunning. There are many of them: practically a different person for each air. This achieves admirable variety, and each voice is a pleasure to hear. I'm a big fan of hautes-contre, so I was really happy to discover that they get to sing most of the "alto" airs on this set. The highlight of this recording is my all time favorite Purcell air 'Tis Nature's Voice, stunningly sung here by Rogers Covey-Crump. I think I've heard just about every 'Tis Nature's Voice ever recorded (except for Rene Jacobs, who I wouldn't really want to hear), and Covey-Crump undeniably gets the most out of it. But my favorite remains Mark Padmore on the Herreweghe recording of Hail! Bright Cecilia. Herreweghe uses fewer soloists (Padmore sings all tenor and half of all countertenor parts), and slower tempi that, in my view, help the singers' intonation. But all in all, the choice ends up being a matter of taste. There is no rational basis to prefer one of these two recordings over the other: both are wonderful.
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Purcell: Odes for St. Cecilia's Day - Music for Queen Mary / Taverner Consort Poster

Andrew Parrott and his Taverner Consort, Choir, and Players have made some of the finest Purcell recordings to have appeared since the period-instrument revival began; unfortunately, most of those discs had been out of print for years. Happily, Virgin has reissued some of Parrott's best work on this reasonably priced two-for-one release. The performances aren't just exemplary, they're something of a landmark: in them Parrott pioneered the now-standard practice of using high tenors rather than falsettists on some of Purcell's low-lying "countertenor" parts. (One example is "Sound the trumpet," a duet for "high" and "low" countertenors from Purcell's ode Come, ye sons of art, sung by falsettist Timothy Wilson and high tenor John Mark Ainsley.) Excellent performances of the Funeral Sentences and Funeral Music for Queen Mary are here as well, but the centerpiece of this set is Hail, bright Cecilia!, the longest and most colorful of Purcell's odes in praise of the patron saint of music. There is some serious competition here--Paul McCreesh and Philippe Herreweghe have made superb recordings of this work--but Parrott edges them out. For example, alone among the ode's conductors on record, Parrott interpolates an organ solo amidst all of the text's praise of the organ (an instrument St. Cecilia was thought to have invented); he also provides appealing variety by using 12 different soloists (as Purcell did at the premiere). Those soloists are an impressive lot--they include Emma Kirkby, David Thomas, Paul Elliott and Charles Daniels (gently enchanting in the tenor duet "In vain the am'rous Flute"), and the Hilliard Ensemble's Rogers Covey-Crump, who gives an extraordinary rendition of the famous and fearsomely difficult air "'Tis Nature's Voice." --Matthew Westphal

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