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.
â € Disc 1
| Track | Track name | Artist | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
â € Disc 2
| Track | Track name | Artist | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |








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