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At this period the rival theatre company was run by Thomas Betterton at Lincoln’s Inn Fields, with music mainly supplied by John Eccles. Eccles’s simple but effective song ‘Can life be a blessing?’ seems to have been written for an unrecorded production of Dryden’s adaptation of Troilus and Cressida around 1695, when the play was republished.

from notes by Peter Holman © 2004

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Recording details: October 2003
St Jude-on-the-Hill, Hampstead Garden Suburb, London, United Kingdom
Produced by Martin Compton
Engineered by Tony Faulkner
Release date: April 2004
Total duration: 2 minutes 5 seconds

Can life be a blessing?
composer
John Eccles (1668-1735)
Troilus and Cressida; A Collection of Songs for One, Two and Three Voices, London, 1704
author of text
Anonymous

Copyright holder as reported by MCPS: Public Domain

Catherine Bott (soprano), The Parley of Instruments, Peter Holman (conductor)
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