Tim Mead, La Nuova Musica, David Bates - Beauteous Softness (2023)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 1:09:58 | 160 / 383 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: PentaTone
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 1:09:58 | 160 / 383 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: PentaTone
Countertenor Tim Mead presents Beauteous Softness, a programme containing restrained yet profoundly moving songs by seventeenth-century English composers such as Purcell, Blow, Humfrey and Webb, in collaboration with La Nuova Musica and David Bates. The album also showcases the rich musical context that provided the foundation from which Purcell rose to prominence.
Track List:
01. If Music Be the Food of Love, Z. 379a
02. Lovely Selina
03. The Yorkshire Feast Song ("of old, when heroes thought It base"), Z. 333: The pale and purple rose
04. A Hymn to God the Father ("Wilt Thou Forgive That Sin")
05. Venus and Adonis: Overture
06. In the Black Dismal Dungeon of Despair, Z. 190
07. Fly, bold rebellion (Welcome song for Charles II), Z. 324: Be welcome then, great Sir
08. Powerful Morpheus
09. Arise, my muse (Birthday ode for Queen Mary), Z. 320: Arise my muse
10. The Yorkshire Feast Song ("of old, when heroes thought It base"), Z. 333: So when the qlitt’ring queen of night
11. An Ode on the death of Mr Henry Purcell: So ceas’d the rival crew when Purcell came
12. Te Deum and Jubilate, Z. 232: Vouchsafe, O Lord
13. King Arthur, Z. 268: Chaconne – First Music
14. The Fairy Queen, Z. 629: O let me weep (The Plaint)
15. Now does the glorious day appear, Z. 332: By beauteous softness
16. Poor Celadon, He Sighs in Vain (Loving Above Himself)
17. Celebrate This Festival (Birthday Ode for Queen Mary), Z. 321: Crown the altar
18. Sleep, Downy Sleep, Come Close Mine Eyes (Anthem for the Evening)
19. Now That the Sun Hath Veiled His Light (An Evening Hymn)
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