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Track(s) taken from CDA66730

Let formal lovers still pursue, Z391

composer
Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
Vinculum Societatis I, 1687
author of text
Anonymous - traditional

James Bowman (countertenor), The King's Consort
Recording details: March 1994
Orford Church, Suffolk, United Kingdom
Produced by Ben Turner
Engineered by Philip Hobbs
Release date: September 1994
Total duration: 1 minutes 7 seconds
 

Reviews

‘Those who need all of Purcell's songs at their fingertips should invest in Hyperion's three-disk survey of secular songs, with outstanding performances by Barbara Bonney, Rogers Covey-Crump and James Bowman’ (The New York Times)
Let formal lovers still pursue appeared in 1687 in Carr’s first book of Vinculum Societatis. Purcell set the author’s wry poem in two strophic verses. Here is a lover who is not prepared to waste time with long courtship rituals.

from notes by Robert King © 2003

Other albums featuring this work

Purcell: The complete secular solo songs
The King's Consort
CDS44161/33CDs Boxed set (at a special price) — Download only

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