Maarten Koningsberger, Fred Jacobs - Henry Purcell: Music For A While (2012) [SACD]
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BAND/ARTIST: Maarten Koningsberger, Fred Jacobs
- Title: Henry Purcell: Music For A While
- Year Of Release: 2012
- Label: Quintone [Q08006]
- Genre: Classical
- Quality: DSD64 image (*.iso) / 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz
- Total Time: 01:01:18
- Total Size: 3,7 GB (+3%rec.)
- WebSite: Album Preview
"Koningsberger’s English pronunciation is crystal-clear and virtually accentless. Add to (this)Jacobs’s utterly sympathetic theorbo accompaniments and you have one of the best Purcell recitals to have hit the shelves in years."
Versatile Dutch baritone Maarten Koningsberger and refined lutenist Fred Jacobs here join in the Henry Purcell 350th birthday celebrations with a beautiful recital of solo songs drawn from across the English Orpheus’s all-too-brief career.
Koningsberger has already distinguished himself in genres as diverse as opera, oratorio, consort song, the Baroque cantata, mélodie and Lieder, the latter including a recording of Die schöne Müllerin with guitar accompaniment – from which this disc is descended in terms of Koningsberger’s ability to adapt volume and tone to the requirements of a plucked-string instrument without sacrificing expressive power.
From the lightness and simplicity of the earliest song represented here, 1678’s “I resolve against cringing and whining”, to the declamatory, richly ornamented first section of “Celia has a thousand charms” from the incidental music to Robert Gould’s The Rival Sisters, or The Violence of Love (1695), Koningsberger’s innate musicality and subtle intelligence are evident in every phrase. Among the better-known songs, one has only to listen to the delicate vocal colourings in “Music for a while”, the skilfully realised connotations of melancholy and vanitas in “If music be the food of love” and the semantically apposite execution of the ornamentation in “I attempt from love’s sickness to fly” to realise the extent of Koningsberger’s interpretative gifts.
Moreover, Koningsberger’s English pronunciation is crystal-clear and virtually accentless. Add to all the aforementioned Jacobs’s utterly sympathetic theorbo accompaniments and you have one of the best Purcell recitals to have hit the shelves in years. Pity about distinctly unflattering cover images of the artists.
gramophone.co.uk
Tracks:
Henry Purcell (c. 1659-1695)
1 Oh! Fair Cedaria, hide those eyes, Z. 402 04:19
2 Music for a while (from Z. 583) 03:40
3 My heart, whenever you appear, Z. 399 01:45
4 I resolve against cringing and whining, Z. 386 01:02
5 Ah, how pleasant 'tis to love, Z. 353 00:51
6 I take no pleasure in the sun's bright beams, Z. 388 02:04
7 Amidst the shades and cool refreshing streams, Z. 355 03:25
8 If music be the food of love, Z. 379A 01:53
9 On the brow of Richmond Hill, Z. 405 01:22
10 Retir'd from any mortal's sight (from Z. 581) 04:00
11 When my Aemelia smiles, she wounds me, Z. 434 02:43
12 Rashly I swore I would disown, Z. 411 01:12
13 I loved fair Celia many years, Z. 381 01:49
14 See where repenting Celia lies (from Z. 603) 02:00
15 What a sad fate, Z. 428B 03:23
16 Who can behold Florella's charms, Z. 441 02:17
17 Not all my torments can your pity move, Z. 400 02:36
18 The fatal hour comes on apace, Z. 421 03:31
19 She loves and she confesses too, Z. 413 01:54
20 The knotting song, Z. 371 02:55 Amazon
The Indian Queen, Z. 630:
21 Their looks are such 01:45
22 Since from my dear (from Z. 627) 03:21
23 Celia has a thousand charms (from Z. 609) 02:46
24 In vain we dissemble, Z. 385 01:58
25 A thousand sev'ral ways I tried, Z. 359 00:44
26 I attempt from Love's sickness to fly (from Z. 630) 01:49
Personnel:
Maarten Koningsberger, baritone
Fred Jacobs, theorbo
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Versatile Dutch baritone Maarten Koningsberger and refined lutenist Fred Jacobs here join in the Henry Purcell 350th birthday celebrations with a beautiful recital of solo songs drawn from across the English Orpheus’s all-too-brief career.
Koningsberger has already distinguished himself in genres as diverse as opera, oratorio, consort song, the Baroque cantata, mélodie and Lieder, the latter including a recording of Die schöne Müllerin with guitar accompaniment – from which this disc is descended in terms of Koningsberger’s ability to adapt volume and tone to the requirements of a plucked-string instrument without sacrificing expressive power.
From the lightness and simplicity of the earliest song represented here, 1678’s “I resolve against cringing and whining”, to the declamatory, richly ornamented first section of “Celia has a thousand charms” from the incidental music to Robert Gould’s The Rival Sisters, or The Violence of Love (1695), Koningsberger’s innate musicality and subtle intelligence are evident in every phrase. Among the better-known songs, one has only to listen to the delicate vocal colourings in “Music for a while”, the skilfully realised connotations of melancholy and vanitas in “If music be the food of love” and the semantically apposite execution of the ornamentation in “I attempt from love’s sickness to fly” to realise the extent of Koningsberger’s interpretative gifts.
Moreover, Koningsberger’s English pronunciation is crystal-clear and virtually accentless. Add to all the aforementioned Jacobs’s utterly sympathetic theorbo accompaniments and you have one of the best Purcell recitals to have hit the shelves in years. Pity about distinctly unflattering cover images of the artists.
gramophone.co.uk
Tracks:
Henry Purcell (c. 1659-1695)
1 Oh! Fair Cedaria, hide those eyes, Z. 402 04:19
2 Music for a while (from Z. 583) 03:40
3 My heart, whenever you appear, Z. 399 01:45
4 I resolve against cringing and whining, Z. 386 01:02
5 Ah, how pleasant 'tis to love, Z. 353 00:51
6 I take no pleasure in the sun's bright beams, Z. 388 02:04
7 Amidst the shades and cool refreshing streams, Z. 355 03:25
8 If music be the food of love, Z. 379A 01:53
9 On the brow of Richmond Hill, Z. 405 01:22
10 Retir'd from any mortal's sight (from Z. 581) 04:00
11 When my Aemelia smiles, she wounds me, Z. 434 02:43
12 Rashly I swore I would disown, Z. 411 01:12
13 I loved fair Celia many years, Z. 381 01:49
14 See where repenting Celia lies (from Z. 603) 02:00
15 What a sad fate, Z. 428B 03:23
16 Who can behold Florella's charms, Z. 441 02:17
17 Not all my torments can your pity move, Z. 400 02:36
18 The fatal hour comes on apace, Z. 421 03:31
19 She loves and she confesses too, Z. 413 01:54
20 The knotting song, Z. 371 02:55 Amazon
The Indian Queen, Z. 630:
21 Their looks are such 01:45
22 Since from my dear (from Z. 627) 03:21
23 Celia has a thousand charms (from Z. 609) 02:46
24 In vain we dissemble, Z. 385 01:58
25 A thousand sev'ral ways I tried, Z. 359 00:44
26 I attempt from Love's sickness to fly (from Z. 630) 01:49
Personnel:
Maarten Koningsberger, baritone
Fred Jacobs, theorbo
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