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Music for a While: Improvisations On Purcell (Vinyl 12″ Album) – Henry Purcell

Original price was: $70.20.Current price is: $39.89.

SKU: 190295250843 Category: Classical Tags: Format: Vinyl 12" Album, Henry Purcell, Released: 16th June 2020

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Christina Pluhar heads to the cooler climes of England with ‘Music for a While’, an album based on the haunting, graceful and sometimes deeply moving music of Henry Purcell. Often considered England’s greatest composer, Purcell (1659-1695) represents an especially good match for the aesthetic of L’Arpeggiata: he made frequent use of the ground bass, a repeated (ostinato) figure in the lower line – the most famous instance of this occurs in Dido’s lament ‘When I am laid in earth’, the closing number from his opera Dido and Aeneas. The ground bass provides an ideal foundation for the brilliant, sometimes jazz-like improvisation that is the stock-in-trade of L’Arpeggiata, here comprising singers, (plucked) strings, wind instruments, keyboard and percussion.

⠀ Disc 1

Track	Track name	Artist
Track 1	Twas Within a Furlong of Edinburgh Town	L’Arpeggiata
Track 2	Music for a While, Z583	L’Arpeggiata
Track 3	Strike the Viol	L’Arpeggiata
Track 4	An Evening Hymn	L’Arpeggiata
Track 5	In Vain the Am’rous Flute	L’Arpeggiata
Track 6	A Prince of Glorious Race	L’Arpeggiata
Track 7	O Solitude, My Sweetest Choice, Z406	L’Arpeggiata
Track 8	When I Am Laid in Earth	L’Arpeggiata

⠀ Disc 2

Track	Track name	Artist
Track 1	Wondrous Machine	L’Arpeggiata
Track 2	Here the Deities Approve, Z339	L’Arpeggiata
Track 3	Ah! Belinda, I Am Press’d With Torment	L’Arpeggiata
Track 4	Hark! How the Songsters of the Grove	L’Arpeggiata
Track 5	One Charming Night	L’Arpeggiata
Track 6	Man Is for the Woman Made	L’Arpeggiata
Track 7	O Let Me Ever, Ever Weep	L’Arpeggiata
Track 8	Curtain Tune	L’Arpeggiata
Track 9	Hallelujah	L’Arpeggiata