Jeremiah Clarke: Ode on the Death of Henry Purcell – Vincent Dumestre

Vincent Dumestre et Le Poème Harmonique rendent hommage au monde de Purcell ainsi qu’à son génial contemporain Jeremiah Clarcke dans un assortissement de chefs-d’œuvre ainsi qu’une découverte exceptionnelle.

Vincent Dumestre en Le Poème Harmonique brengen hulde aan de wereld van Purcell en zijn grote tijdgenoot Jeremiah Clarcke in een overzicht van meesterwerken met daarnaast een uitzonderlijke ontdekking.

   in Choir & Organ (Sep, 2017)
The excellent Cris de Paris and Poème Harmonique tackle two of the most famous works by that most English of composers, Henry Purcell: the Funeral Music for Queen Mary and the first of his Cecilian odes, Welcome to all the pleasures (1683). The brass are suitably sober in the Queen’s funeral march despite the drum’s surely too elaborate part (Purcell left no music for the drum, so each player must find his/her own way). Les Cris de Paris adopt a no-nonsense approach to the vocal music, with delicately balanced verse and full groups. Their account of Thou knowest, Lord (the simple, homophonic version from 1695) is tender, its very beauty …