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1CD DIGIPACK

Henry Purcell (1659-1695)

Harmonia Sacra
1. Tell me, some pitying angel (The blessed Virgin’s expostulation)
2. In the black, dismal dungeon of despair
3. We sing to him, whose wisdom form’d the ear
4. Air en sol mineur / in G minor
5. Great God, and just (A penitential hymn)
6. My song shall be alway (psalm 89)
7. Ground en ré mineur / in D minor
8. Lord, what is man?
9. Let the night perish (Job’s curse)
10. Chaconne en sol mineur / in G minor
11. The night is come (An evening hymn)
12. With sick and famish’d eyes
13. How have I stray’d

Suite en sol mineur / in G minor
14. Prelude
15. Allemande
16. Courante
17. Sarabande
18. My opening eyes are purged (A divine song of the Passion of our Saviour)
19. How long, great God (The aspiration)
20. Ground en do mineur / in C minor
21. Sleep, Adam, and take thy rest
22. Thou wakeful shepherd (A morning hymn)
23. The earth trembled (On our Saviour’s Passion)
24. Now that the sun hath veil’d his light (An evening hymn on a ground)

Total 75’41

Rosemary Joshua
Les Talens Lyriques
Laurence Dreyfus : viole de gambe
Elizabeth Kenny: luth
Christophe Rousset: clavecin, orgue et direction