CDS44161/3 - Disc 3 Track 24 - Olinda in the shades unseen, Z404

Olinda in the shades unseen, Z404

composer

Henry Purcell (1659-1695)

April/May 1694

author of text

Anonymous

Recordings

Purcell: Secular solo songs, Vol. 3

The King's Consort

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Details

Barbara Bonney (soprano), The King's Consort

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English

Olinda in the shades unseen, Z404

This touching miniature appears in the Gresham Manuscript between extracts of works known to have been performed in April and May 1694. Olinda is wistfully recalling past pleasures, mournfully ‘sighing’ (set to a wonderful melisma by Purcell) that time flies so fast. She calls for the good times to return, but ‘all in vain’. With rueful repeats of the word ‘never’ we are reminded that ‘Time past can never come again’.

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Artists

Barbara Bonney (soprano)

The King's Consort

Mark Caudle (viol)

David Miller (theorbo)

Robert King (organ)

ISRC

GB-AJY-94-73024

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