Title: Love's Goddess Sure Was Blind Artist: Harry Christophers Label: Coro Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 828021602429 Genre: Classical Release Date: 2004-10-19 Number of Discs: 1
This disc combines some of Henry Purcell's most powerful masterpieces. Love's Goddess Sure Was Blind, an exuberant tribute to the young Queen Mary, and some of his most eloquent compositions, written for her funeral. Love's Goddess Sure was Blind, written in exuberant and florid style for the birthday of the much loved young Queen Mary ends, extraordinarily, with a reflection on the grief her eventual death would provoke. It was less than six years later that the prophesied mourning became a reality, when, in her early thirties, she succumbed to smallpox. Purcell's eloquent compositions for her funeral are acknowledged as some of his most powerful masterpieces marrying a genuine of expression of grief (Purcell greatly admired the witty, musical Mary) with a characteristic sophistication of style.
Tracks: 1.1 Jehova, Quam Multi Sunt Hostes Mei 1.2 Miserere Mei 1.3 Man That Is Born of a Women 1.4 In the Midst of Life 1.5 Thou Knowest, Lord, the Secrets of Our Hearts (First Setting) 1.6 Incassum, Lesbia, Incassum Rogas 1.7 Symphony 1.8 Love's Goddess Sure Was Blind This Day 1.9 Those Eyes That Form, That Lofty Mien 1.10 Sweetness of Nature, and True Wit 1.11 Long May She Reign Over This Isle 1.12 May Her Blest Example Chase 1.13 Many Such Days May She Behold 1.14 May She to Heaven Late Return 1.15 O Dive Custos Auricae Domus 1.16 - 27 at the Burial of the Dead (Thomas Morley and Henry Purcell
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