in Opera Now (Apr, 2019)
Rather more serious is the debut album from young soprano Rowan Pierce, who has not long finished study at the Royal College of Music and is now cutting a sweet-voiced swathe through the early music world. She sings a number of songs by Purcell, varying in tone from melancholic to comic and indeed deranged, including examples of “mad songs”. Pierce uses a highly effective range of vocal colours, ranging from a deliberately blanched tone to a much fuller and richer sound and she successfully walks the thin line between sounding either too sophisticated or too guileless. So while there is limpidity to her performance there is also some thrust and excitement …
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Henry Purcell: The Cares Of Lovers – Richard Egarr
The cares of lovers (from Timon of Athens, Z632)
Sweeter than Roses (from Pausanius, the Betrayer of his Country, Z585)
From silent shades (‘Bess of Bedlam’) Z370
Retir’d from any mortal’s sight: The History of King Richard the Second or The Sicilian Usurper: Retir’d from any mortal’s sight, Z581
Celia has a thousand charms from The Rival Sisters, or The Violence of Love, Z609
Dear pretty youth (from The Indian Queen, Z630)
Ground in Gamut
If Music be the Food of Love, Z. 379C
O solitude, my sweetest choice, Z406
Hears not my Phillis how the birds (‘The Knotting Song’), Z371
O lead me to some peaceful gloom (from Bonduca or The British Heroine, Z574)
She loves and she confesses too, Z413
Ground in D minor, ZD222
Tell me, some pitying angel (The Blessed Virgin’s Expostulation), Z196
Music for a while, Z583
The fatal hour comes on apace, Z421
Thou wakeful shepherd that dost Israel keep (A Morning Hymn), Z198
An Evening Hymn ‘Now that the sun hath veiled his light’, Z193
Rowan Pierce, William Carter, Academy of Ancient Music, Richard Egarr
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