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Purcell’s song is simple and strophic, much in the lute-song tradition, but exquisitely crafted, especially in the rising chromaticism of ‘Whilst I with pensive look, and tears, This cruel absence mourn’, and the eloquent sighs and panting of the last stanza.
from notes by Robert King © 2003
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