Choral & Organ Music
CD
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- Composer
- Purcell, Henry
- Performers
- McCarthy, Michael, Carwood, Andrew, Cummings, Laurence, Lane, Carys-Anne, Summerly, Jeremy, Oxford Camerata
- Label
- Naxos
- Barcode
- 0730099412926
Henry Purcell (1659 - 1695) Full Anthems and Organ Music Music on the Death of Queen Mary We find it easy enough to accept that a Tchaikovsky or Mahler symphony is to some extent autobiographical, but with earlier music we assume that the composer's inner voice is likely to have been forestalled by the functional rôle that music inhabited in earlier centuries. In Henry Purcell's day, the job of a composer in the busy courts and churches of the Baroque was to provide a well-crafted commodity designed to compliment a patron, entertain him, or adorn a ceremony or liturgy with an appropriate musical setting-the day-to-day grind of fulfilling regular and significant obligations was not often conducive to self-motivated composition. Perhaps the sign of greatness in a Baroque composer is that in spite of the strictures of patronage the music communicates integrity, value, and individualism above and beyond the call of duty. Purcell is one of very few composers in the Baroque whose musical language, at its richest, tempts us to speculate on the man's sense of being. Perhaps we feel less inclined to do this with Bach, say, since we know more about his life. More was written about Bach in his lifetime and in subsequent years than has ever been written about Purcell. Bach worked within a fervent religious and intellectual milieu a generation later than Purcell, where such genres as the concerto, cantata, and sonata were well established, and tonality fully formulated. We revere Bach's w
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Details
- Purcell: Choral and Organ Music
- Product type: ABIS MUSIC
- Brand: NAXOS
- Full Anthems - Music on the Death of Queen Mary / Andrew Carwood, ténor - Michael McCarthy, basse - Laurence Cummings, orgue - Oxford Camerata - Jeremy Summerly, direction
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