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Sweeter Than Roses

Songs by Henry Purcell

Anna Dennis (soprano)

Ensemble Sounds Baroque, Julian Perkins

Sweeter Than Roses
Anna Dennis sings Purcell with chaste beauty, dignified and cool as marble.

BBC Music Magazine, April 20193 out of 5 stars

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Sweeter Than Roses

Songs by Henry Purcell

Anna Dennis (soprano)

Ensemble Sounds Baroque, Julian Perkins

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Anna Dennis sings Purcell with chaste beauty, dignified and cool as marble.

BBC Music Magazine, April 20193 out of 5 stars

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Director and keyboardist Julian Perkins and his acclaimed ensemble Sounds Baroque join with soprano Anna Dennis to this celebration of the songs Henry Purcell. Kown for his undisputed mastery in setting the English language, Purcell also absorbed influences from both French and italian styles, and the programm is complemented with close contemporaries who also worked in Lodon - a guitar suite from italian Francesco Corbetta and a harpsichord suite from Giovanni Battista Draghi, along with two songs from the earlier Stuart court composr Henry Lawes.

Contents and tracklist

Purcell: Sweeter than Roses (from Pausanius, the Betrayer of his Country, Z585)
Work length3:34
Purcell: Cupid, the slyest rogue alive, Z367
Work length2:39
Purcell: On the brow of Richmond Hill Z405
Work length1:40
Purcell: She loves and she confesses too, Z413
Work length2:25
Lawes, H: No Reprieve
Work length4:20
Lawes, H: A Lover’s Legacy
Work length1:47
Corbetta: Suite in C
Work length6:16
I. Caprice de Chacone
Track length2:50
II. Gigue
Track length1:06
III. Menuet
Track length0:45
IV. Autre Chacone
Track length1:35
Purcell: Urge me no more, Z426
Work length3:47
Purcell: In the black dismal dungeon of despair, Z190
Work length4:18
Purcell: An Evening Hymn 'Now that the sun hath veiled his light', Z193
Work length4:19
Draghi, G B: Suite in E minor
Work length11:53
I. Prelude
Track length0:46
II. Allmand
Track length3:18
III. Corrant
Track length1:54
IV. The Complaint
Track length2:34
V. Aire
Track length1:16
VI. Jigg
Track length2:05
Purcell: Love arms himself in Celia's eyes, Z392
Work length3:05
Purcell: Celia's fond, too long I've lov'd her, Z364
Work length2:36
Purcell: I came, I saw, and was undone, Z375
Work length4:15
Purcell: O! fair Cedaria, hide those eyes Z402
Work length4:13
Purcell: How blest are the shepherds (from King Arthur)
Work length6:14

Awards and reviews

April 2019

Anna Dennis sings Purcell with chaste beauty, dignified and cool as marble.
3 out of 5 stars

March 2019

Dennis hasn’t got the classic Purcell voice…But the soprano’s oaked tone and more thickly painted vocal lines bring an attractive shift of perspective to this, her first solo recital disc…It’s the instrumental contributions that really make the disc. Perkins’s harpsichord offers sparkling commentary in ‘She loves and she confesses too’, vamping up the ground bass to almost Nyman-like intensity.

classicalsource.com March 2019

The colours of a guitar and a harpsichord respectively provide engaging contrast in Suites by two Italian contemporaries of Purcell, Corbetta and Draghi.”
4 out of 5 stars
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