Purcell: Love's goddess sure was blind, Z 331 (3/3) - Munrow

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• Description : Stereo: http://www.youtube.com/watc...(more)h?v=2QUVPIl4eGU&fmt=18 Love's goddess sure was blind, an ode for the birthday of Queen Mary, Z 331 Ode for soprano, two altos, tenor and bass, with two recorders, four violins and basso continuo Text: Sir Charles Sedley Music: Henry Purcell First performance: 30 April 1692 ___ Video part 3 0:00 Soprano: May her blest example 1:47 Two Altos: Many such days 4:25 Ritornello 5:16 Chorus: May she to Heaven 7:10 Soprano, Alto, Tenor & Bass: As much as we below 8:14 Chorus: Our short, but their eternal choice ___ Norma Burrowes, soprano James Bowman, countertenor Charles Brett, countertenor Robert Lloyd, bass The Early Music Consort of London, conducted by David Munrow Recorded in June 1975 ___ A famous anecdote about "Cold and raw": "This tune was greatly admired by Queen Mary, the consort of King William; and she once affronted Purcell by requesting to have it sung to her, he being present. The story is as follows: the Queen having a mind one afternoon to be entertained with music, sent to Mr. Gostling, then one of the chapel, and afterwards subdean of St. Paul's, to Henry Purcell and Mrs. Arabella Hunt, who had a very fine voice and an admirable hand on the lute, with a request to attend her; they obeyed her commands; Mr. Gostling and Mrs. Hunt sang several compositions of Purcell, who accompanied them on the harpsichord: at length the Queen beginning to grow tired, asked Mrs. Hunt if she could not sing the old Scots' ballad, 'Cold and raw.' Mrs. Hunt answered yes, and sang it to her lute. Purcell was all the while sitting at the harpsichord unemployed, and not a little nettled at the Queen's preference of a vulgar ballad to his music; but seeing her majesty delighted with this tune, he determined that she should hear it upon another occasion: and accordingly in the next birthday song, viz. that for the year 1692, he composed an air to the words, 'May her bright example,' the bass whereof is the tune to 'Cold and raw:' it is printed in the second part of the Orpheus Britannicus, and is note for note the same with the Scots' tune." - Sir John Hawkins: A General History of the Science and Practice of Music, 1776 See my video with "Cold and raw" and the original tune "Stingo": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH6evUK6BU0&fmt=18 Marc D. (less)