CDA66720 - Disc 1 Track 9 - If grief has any pow'r to kill, Z378 - Hyperion Records

If grief has any pow'r to kill, Z378

composer

Henry Purcell (1659-1695)

The Theatre of Music II, 1685

author of text

Anonymous

Recordings

Purcell: Secular solo songs, Vol. 2

The King's Consort

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Purcell: The complete secular solo songs

The King's Consort

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Details

Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor), The King's Consort

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English

If grief has any pow'r to kill, Z378

This song was published in Playford’s second book of The Theatre of Music in 1685. Purcell’s setting shows a sophisticated musical mind at work: the text is skilfully coloured with a melodic line which covers a wide vocal range. Word-painting is to the fore: ‘doom’ plunges to the lowest extremes of the voice, the continuo and voice chase each other in suspensions at ‘So close he has besieg’d my heart’ and the singer graphically tries to shake off the dart with which he struggles.

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Artists

Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor)

The King's Consort

Mark Caudle (viol)

David Miller (theorbo)

Robert King (organ)

ISRC

GB-AJY-94-72009

Duration