Purcell / Christophers / Sixteen Love'S Goddess Sure Was Blind CD

This disc combines some of Henry Purcell's most powerful masterpieces. Love's Goddess Sure Was Blind, an exuberant tribute to the young Queen Mary, and some of his most eloquent compositions, written for her funeral. Love's Goddess Sure was Blind, written in exuberant and florid style for the birthday of the much loved young Queen Mary ends, extraordinarily, with a reflection on the grief her eventual death would provoke. It was less than six years later that the prophesied mourning became a reality, when, in her early thirties, she succumbed to smallpox. Purcell's eloquent compositions for her funeral are acknowledged as some of his most powerful masterpieces marrying a genuine of expression of grief (Purcell greatly admired the witty, musical Mary) with a characteristic sophistication of style.

1. Jehova, Quam Multi Sunt Hostes Mei 2. Miserere Mei 3. Man That Is Born of a Women 4. In the Midst of Life 5. Thou Knowest, Lord, the Secrets of Our Hearts (First Setting) 6. Incassum, Lesbia, Incassum Rogas 7. Symphony 8. Love's Goddess Sure Was Blind This Day 9. Those Eyes That Form, That Lofty Mien 10. Sweetness of Nature, and True Wit 11. Long May She Reign Over This Isle 12. May Her Blest Example Chase 13. Many Such Days May She Behold 14. May She to Heaven Late Return 15. O Dive Custos Auricae Domus 16. - 27 at the Burial of the Dead (Thomas Morley and Henry Purcell