Est 1923

Purcell Birthday Odes for Queen Mary

Record and Artist Details

Composer or Director: Henry Purcell

Label: Veritas

Media Format: CD or Download

Media Runtime: 51

Mastering:

ADD

Catalogue Number: 561333-2

Tracks:

Composition Artist Credit
Birthday Ode, 'Come ye sons of art away' Henry Purcell, Composer
Charles Brett, Alto
David Munrow, Conductor
Early Music Consort of London
Henry Purcell, Composer
James Bowman, Alto
Norma Burrowes, Soprano
Robert Lloyd, Bass
Birthday Ode, 'Love's goddess sure was blind' Henry Purcell, Composer
Charles Brett, Alto
David Munrow, Conductor
Early Music Consort of London
Henry Purcell, Composer
James Bowman, Alto
Norma Burrowes, Soprano
Robert Lloyd, Bass
Apart from its obvious historical interest, it is difficult to recommend this reissue to any but those die-hards who must have everything David Munrow ever recorded. The instrumental ensemble is disconcertingly patchy in places, tempos tend to drag, and the soloists are rather uneven. And speaking of patchiness, in Love’s goddess sure the composer himself is hardly on top form.'

Purcell Birthday Odes for Queen Mary

Birthday Ode, 'Come ye sons of art away'

Birthday Ode, 'Love's goddess sure was blind'

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