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Les Inventions
Henry Purcell

VOCES8

Les Inventions

Price: € 19.95
Format: CD
Label: Signum Classics
UPC: 0635212037522
Catnr: SIGCD 375
Release date: 11 April 2014
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Signum Classics
UPC
0635212037522
Catalogue number
SIGCD 375
Release date
11 April 2014
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About the album

The young, virtuoso A Cappella ensemble VOCES8 presents a sumptuous collection of early works by Henry Purcell one of England’s greatest composers. Joined by the specialist early-music ensemble ‘Les Inventions’, the group explores Purcell’s astoundingly diverse output – anthems, odes, funeral music, semi-operas, masques, sonatas, consort-music, songs and catches – populate his extraordinarily multifaceted oeuvre.
Een wandeling door de wereld van Purcell
Het virtuoze a capellaensemble VOCES8 voert op dit album een luxueuze collectie vroege werken van Henry Purcell uit, bijgestaan door het ensemble Les Inventions, specialisten op het gebied van oude muziek. De musici verkennen Purcells verbazingwekkend diverse oeuvre – er zijn nauwelijks genres waarin hij zich niet uitdrukte: zijn buitengewoon veelzijdige oeuvre wordt bevolkt door hymnen, odes, begrafenismuziek, semi-opera’s, masques, sonates, ensemblemuziek, liederen en canons. De musici vieren deze verbazingwekkende diversiteit door de luisteraar uit te nodigen voor een wandeling door de wereld van een van de grootste Engelse componisten.

Na afloop van de reis door Purcells oeuvre, na getuige te zijn van zijn opmerkelijke originaliteit en creatieve kracht, is het eenvoudig om het eens te zijn met John Playford, een uitgever van muziek in de tijd van Purcell, die drie jaar na het overlijden van de componist schreef: “(Purcell was) especially admired for having a peculiar genius to express the energy of English words, whereby he moved the passions of all his auditors.”

De Early Music Review schreef over het album: “This is a lovely collection, reflective of the composer's eclectic talents, and beautifully performed.”

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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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Claudio Monteverdi
Vespers of the Blessed Virgin, 1610
Orchestra of the Age of the Enlightenment / Choir of the Age of the Enlightenment

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