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Restauration Harpsichord Music

Richard Egarr

Restauration Harpsichord Music

Format: CD
Label: Globe
UPC: 8711525514508
Catnr: GLO 5145
Release date: 19 August 2002
1 CD
 
Label
Globe
UPC
8711525514508
Catalogue number
GLO 5145
Release date
19 August 2002
Album
Artist(s)
Composer(s)
NL

About the album

Een fascinerend muzikaal document van de Restauratie
In 1661 werd Charles II tot koning van Engeland gekroond, na de periode van Puriteinse heerschappij onder Cromwell. Tijdens de Restauratie die op de kroning volgde kwam het muziekleven weer tot bloei, en keerde de grote componisten terug naar het hof. Onder hen waren Henry Purcell, John Blow, Matthew Locke en Giovanni Battista Draghi. Zij componeerden werken voor het theater, het orkest van de Koning en voor het klavecimbel. Richard Egarr koos voor dit album hun beste en meest representatieve klavierwerken uit, heeft met zijn gezaghebbende interpretaties van dit album een fascinerend muzikaal document gemaakt.

Egarr werd in 1963 geboren in Lincoln, Engeland. Op 13-jarige leeftijd begon hij piano en orgel te studeren aan Chetham’s School of Music in Manchester. Rond 1982 begon hij klavecimbel te spelen. Vijf jaar later verkreeg hij een beurs van de Nederlandse overheid, waardoor hij in staat was om aan het Sweelinck Conservatorium Amsterdam te studeren onder Gustav Leonhardt. Egarr treedt als solist en continuospeler op in Europa, de Verenigde Staten en Japan, samen met musici en ensembles als Marie Leonhardt, Max van Egmond, Emma Kirkby, The New London Consort en London Baroque.

Artist(s)

Richard Egarr (harpsichord)

Composer(s)

Henry Purcell

Westminster Abbey is not just the place where British monarchs were crowned, it's also the place where many English great men were burried. Among those was also Henry Purcell. This final resting place had a double meaning for him: firstly, with his status as a composer he deserved a spot in the abbey, but secondly this was also the location where he worked during the reign of Charles II and William & Mary.  Most people will recognise the last aria of Purcell's beloved opera Dido and Aeneas: 'Remember me, but ah! forget my fate.' More abstract, but less trenchant are his brilliant Fantasias (for viola da gamba) which Purcell composed in the early 1680s. These are small, at times daringly expirimental works, which...
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Westminster Abbey is not just the place where British monarchs were crowned, it's also the place where many English great men were burried. Among those was also Henry Purcell. This final resting place had a double meaning for him: firstly, with his status as a composer he deserved a spot in the abbey, but secondly this was also the location where he worked during the reign of Charles II and William & Mary. Most people will recognise the last aria of Purcell's beloved opera Dido and Aeneas: "Remember me, but ah! forget my fate." More abstract, but less trenchant are his brilliant Fantasias (for viola da gamba) which Purcell composed in the early 1680s. These are small, at times daringly expirimental works, which he carefully dated. Yet, Purcell mostly developed himself as a composer of vocal music, with numerous odes, 'welcome songs', motets (anthems), songs for domestic use (both sacred and secular, both monophonic and polyphonic) and music for theatre.


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01.
Suite in D major, Z.667: I. Prelude
00:49
(Henry Purcell) Richard Egarr
02.
Suite in D major, Z.667: II. Almand
03:01
(Henry Purcell) Richard Egarr
03.
Suite in D major, Z.667: III. Hornpipe
01:10
(Henry Purcell) Richard Egarr
04.
A new Ground in e minor, Z.T628
02:22
(Henry Purcell) Richard Egarr
05.
Suite in a minor: I. Almand
02:35
(John Blow) Richard Egarr
06.
Suite in a minor: II. Corant
01:49
(John Blow) Richard Egarr
07.
Suite in a minor: III. Saraband
01:13
(John Blow) Richard Egarr
08.
Suite in a minor: IV. Jigg
01:18
(John Blow) Richard Egarr
09.
Curtain tune
02:54
(Giovanni Battista Draghi) Richard Egarr
10.
Suite in g minor, Z, 662: I. Prelude
01:37
(Henry Purcell) Richard Egarr
11.
Suite in g minor, Z, 662: II. Almand
03:31
(Henry Purcell) Richard Egarr
12.
Suite in g minor, Z, 662: III. Corant
01:38
(Henry Purcell) Richard Egarr
13.
Suite in g minor, Z, 662: IV. Saraband
01:42
(Henry Purcell) Richard Egarr
14.
Suite in C major: I. Prelude
00:51
(Matthew Locke) Richard Egarr
15.
Suite in C major: II. Almain
03:02
(Matthew Locke) Richard Egarr
16.
Suite in C major: III. Corant
01:04
(Matthew Locke) Richard Egarr
17.
Suite in C major: IV. Saraband
01:51
(Matthew Locke) Richard Egarr
18.
Suite in C major: V. Jig
01:04
(Matthew Locke) Richard Egarr
19.
Ground in c minor, Z. D221
02:51
(Henry Purcell) Richard Egarr
20.
Suite in G major: I. Prelude
00:53
(Giovanni Battista Draghi) Richard Egarr
21.
Suite in G major: II. Allmand
04:48
(Giovanni Battista Draghi) Richard Egarr
22.
Suite in G major: III. Corrant
01:28
(Giovanni Battista Draghi) Richard Egarr
23.
Suite in G major: IV. Saraband
02:15
(Giovanni Battista Draghi) Richard Egarr
24.
Suite in G major: V. Aire
00:56
(Giovanni Battista Draghi) Richard Egarr
25.
Suite in G major: VI. The hunting tune
02:59
(Giovanni Battista Draghi) Richard Egarr
26.
Ground in d minor, Z. D222
01:57
(Henry Purcell) Richard Egarr
27.
Suite in d minor: I. Almand
04:03
(John Blow) Richard Egarr
28.
Suite in d minor: II. Corant
00:43
(John Blow) Richard Egarr
29.
Suite in d minor: III. Tune
00:56
(John Blow) Richard Egarr
30.
Suite in d minor: IV. Jigg
01:00
(John Blow) Richard Egarr
31.
Suite in d minor: V. Ground
03:04
(John Blow) Richard Egarr
32.
Suite in d minor: VI. Round O
01:05
(John Blow) Richard Egarr
33.
Suite in d minor: VII. Minuet
01:24
(John Blow) Richard Egarr
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