Purcell, Henry - Food of Love, The - Agnew, Paul (tenor)
"Henry Purcell is often considered the quintessentially English composer representing almost alone a golden age of British music, but Henry was born at a key moment in the turbulent days of the seventeenth century in England and perhaps that fabled English musical language was pronounced with a distinctly continental accent. Purcell must have heard a great deal of French music during his formativeyears and equally have known well the monarch's taste. His voice is as distinctive as any truly great composer, but the building blocks of his musical language must certainly, and by necessity, have included a whiff of garlic. It may be a surprise to the British to fi nd out how popular Henry Purcell's music is to this day in France, but then, it is perhaps because the French recognise in him something of their own. The challenge faced by performers is therefore to illustrate this text to best advantage with all the resources available to them. They must choose the instrumentation according to its character, but also decide on the phrasing, the dynamics, the note lengths, the articulation, the respirations, with the aim of sticking closely to the text, to the music of its language, the rhythm of the consonants and the meaning of the words, so as to highlight the poetry and its affects. All of this of course demands a high degree of complicity between them."
(Paul Agnew)
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If music be the food of love |
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Corinna is divinely fair |
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Ah! How sweet it is to love |
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What a sad fate is mine |
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I see she fl ies me |
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O Solitude |
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Music for a While |
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Ground in C for Harpsichord |
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O, Fair Cedaria |
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Man is for the women made |
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Not all my torments can your pity move |
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On the brow of Richmond Hill |
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Pious Celinda goes to pray'rs |
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When first I saw Aurelia's eyes |
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The Cares of Lovers |
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The fatal hour comes on apace |
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I loved fair Cecilia| When her languishing eyes sa |
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A Morning Hymn |
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The earth trembled |
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Now that the sun has veil'd his light / If music b |
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Caprice de Chaconne |
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Prelude in D / Prelude |
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Prelude in D minor |
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