Countertenor duets by Purcell & Blow

Such complementary voices, Chance fine-drawn, Bowman a touch richer, more coloured, are ideal in this selection of inventive duets. Blow's Ode on Purcell's death is particularly fine, intensely... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2014, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 31st Mar 2014
Catalogue No: CDH55447
Label: Helios
Length: 65 minutes

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Excerpt, Purcell: Come ye sons of art (Ode for Queen Mary's birthday, 1694), Z 323

Work length2:26

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Michael Chance (countertenor), James Bowman (countertenor)
King's Consort
Robert King

III. Sound the trumpet, 'til around

Track length2:26

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Purcell: Hail! Bright Cecilia (Ode for St Cecilia's Day 1692), Z328

Work length6:06

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James Bowman (countertenor), Michael Chance (countertenor)
King's Consort
Robert King

X. In vain the Am'rous Flute and soft Guitar

Track length6:06

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Purcell: O solitude, my sweetest choice, Z406

Work length5:44

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James Bowman (countertenor)
King's Consort
Robert King

Purcell: Bonduca or The British Heroine - incidental music, Z574

Work length2:43

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Michael Chance (countertenor), James Bowman (countertenor)
King's Consort
Robert King

Duet. Sing, sing ye druids

Track length2:43

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Purcell: O dive custos Auriacae domus 'An elegy upon the death of Queen Mary', Z514

Work length7:04

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Michael Chance (countertenor), James Bowman (countertenor)
King's Consort
Robert King

Purcell: The Maid's Last Prayer, or Any rather than Fail, Z601

Work length4:40

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James Bowman (countertenor), Michael Chance (countertenor)
King's Consort
Robert King

Duet. No, resistance is but vain

Track length4:40

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Excerpt, Purcell: Timon of Athens, Z632

Work length3:06

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Michael Chance (countertenor), James Bowman (countertenor)
King's Consort
Robert King

Duet. Hark how the songsters

Track length3:06

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Purcell: Incassum Lesbia, incassum rogas ('The Queen's Epicedium'), Z383

Work length7:49

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Michael Chance (countertenor)
King's Consort
Robert King

Blow: Ah, Heav'n! What is't I hear?

Work length3:22

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Michael Chance (countertenor), James Bowman (countertenor)
King's Consort
Robert King

Blow: Ode on the Death of Mr Henry Purcell

Work length22:05

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Michael Chance (countertenor), James Bowman (countertenor)
King's Consort
Robert King

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This recording of duets by the great composers of the Restoration is one of the gems of Hyperion’s catalogue. It features the celebrated countertenors James Bowman and Michael Chance at the peak of their powers, and the combination of their two voices with the sympathetic accompaniment of The King’s Consort creates something uniquely glorious.

Purcell was a countertenor himself and in his writing for the voice produced some of his most felicitous music. John Blow, Purcell’s predecessor and successor as organist of Westminster Abbey, reached his compositional zenith with the extended duet (almost a small cantata) on the subjects of Purcell’s tragic early death and inextinguishable influence.

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May 2014

Such complementary voices, Chance fine-drawn, Bowman a touch richer, more coloured, are ideal in this selection of inventive duets. Blow's Ode on Purcell's death is particularly fine, intensely moving.

A disc no baroque music anglophile will wish to be without, for it is a vocal tour de force

A sparkling collection which shows both the composer and these fine artists in inspirational form. The performances are joyous, witty and ravishing in their Purcellian melancholy

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