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Lost is My Quiet
English Music in Purcell's Time

NANCY ARGENTA, SOPRANO
DANIEL TAYLOR, CONTRÉ-TENOR / COUNTERTENOR

ADRIAN BUTTERFIELD, VIOLON / VIOLIN (1)
HÉLÈNE PLOUFFE, VIOLON / VIOLIN (2)
MARGARET LITTLE, ALTO / VIOLA (3)
SUSIE NAPPER, VIOLONCELLE / CELLO (4)
MATTHIAS MAUTE, FLÛTE À BEC / RECORDER (5)
SOPHIE LARIVIÈRE, FLÛTE À BEC / RECORDER (6)
CHRISTOPHER JACKSON, CLAVECIN / HARPSICHORD (7A),
& ORGUE / ORGAN (7B)
NIGEL NORTH, LUTH / LUTE (8)

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Two of the most accomplished vocal artists Canada has produced share their love of English song from Purcell's time: solo pieces and duets written for the theatre and for celebratory odes by the Orpheus Britannicus himself, as himself, as well as some tasty morsels by his greatest ‘disciple,’ John Eccles. John Blow and Henry's younger brother, Daniel, also add more than their two-pence worth.   A very worthy band of instrumentalists complete the programme with a choice selection of ‘ayres’ (in truth, instrumental suites) from two theatrical works to which Henry Purcell contributed.

HENRY PURCELL (1659-1695)
    1 ONE CHARMING NIGHT (The Fairy Queen, Z. 629; 1692)   2:36
        DANIEL TAYLOR (5, 6, 8)*

JOHN BLOW (1648/49-1708)
    2 LOVELY SELINA, INNOCENT AND FREE   2:42
        (The Princess of Cleves; 1689)
        NANCY ARGENTA (4, 7A, 8)

DANIEL PURCELL (v. 1664-1717)
    3 MY DEAREST, MY FAIREST   2:42
        (Pausanias, the Betrayer of his Country, Z. 585, 1695)
        NANCY ARGENTA | DANIEL TAYLOR (4, 7A, 8)

JOHN ECCLES (v. 1668-1735)
    4 AS CUPID ROGUISHLY ONE DAY (The Mad Lover; 1700)   2:08
        NANCY ARGENTA (8)

HENRY PURCELL
        SUITE FROM “AMPHITRYON, OR THE TWO SOSIAS” 9:26
        Z. 572 (1690) (1, 2, 3, 4, 7A, 8)
    5 OVERTURE   3 20
    6 SARABAND   0 58
    7 HORNPIPE   0 59
    8 SCOTCH TUNE   0.55
    9 AIR   0:56
  10 MINUET   0:56
  11 HORNPIPE   0 33
  12 BORREE   0:49

  13 STRIKE THE VIOL (Come ye, sons of art, Z. 323; 1694) 2:24
        DANIEL TAYLOR (4, 5, 6, 8)

  14 LOST IS MY QUIET FOR EVER Z. 502 (1691)   3 16
        NANCY ARGENTA | DANIEL TAYLOR (8)

JOHN ECCLES
  15 SEE THE FORSAKEN FAIR WITH STREAMING EYES   3:58
        (Ode for St. Cecilia, 1701)
        NANCY ARGENTA (4, 7A, 8)

HENRY PURCELL
        SUITE FROM “THE VIRTUOUS WIFE, OR GOOD LUCK AT LAST”   13:37
        Z. 611 (1694-95) (1, 2, 3, 4, 7A, 8)   16 OVERTURE   2:44
  17 SONG TUNE   1:51
  18 SLOW AIR   2:02
  19 AIR   0:37
  20 PRELUDIO   1:32
  21 HORNPIPE   0:37
  22 MINUET 1 & MINUET 2   3:14
  23 (AIR: LA FURSTEMBERG)   1:00

JOHN ECCLES
  24 I BURN, MY BRAIN CONSUMES TO ASHES   3 27
        (The Comical History of Don Quixote, Z. 578; 1694)
        NANCY ARGENTA (4, 8)

HENRY PURCELL
  25 HERE THE DEITIES APPROVE   4:57
        (Welcome to all the pleasures, Z. 339; 1683)
        DANIEL TAYLOR (1, 2, 3, 4, 7A)

JOHN BLOW
  26 OH! THAT MINE EYES WOULD MELT INTO A FLOOD (1688)   3:39
        NANCY ARGENTA (4, 7B)

HENRY PURCELL
  27 SINCE FROM MY DEAR ASTREA'S SIGHT   3:46
        (The Prophetess, or The History of Dioclesian, Z. 627; 1690)
        DANIEL TAYLOR (8)

Les numéros renvoient aux instrumentistes.
The numbers refer to the instrumentalists


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