An educational programme featuring early music. Today’s broadcast is dedicated to Daniel Purcell (Henry Purcell’s younger brother or cousin), who died 300 years ago, in 1717.
Daniel Purcell (ca 1664 – 1717)
1 Sonata for violin and basso continuo, in b minor (1698)
– I (Adagio)
– II Vivace
– III Largo
– IV Allegro
Hazel Brooks, violin. David Pollock, harpsichord
(CD: The Unknown Purcell. Chandoz CHAN 0795, 2013)
2 Sonata for recorder and basso continuo (1698)
– I Vivace
– II Largo
– III Allegro
– IV Adagio
– V Allegro
Alison Melville, recorder. Lucas Harris, theorbo & baroque guitar. Borys Medicky, harpsichord. Nadina Mackie Jackson, baroque bassoon. Joëlle Morton, viola da gamba
(CD: The Business of Angels: English Recorder Music from the Stuart Era. Pipistrelle PIP1110, 2011)
3 The Masque of Hymen (1695) (music from the 5th act of The Indian Queen)
– Symphony
– To bless the genial bed
– Come all, come all
– I’m glad I have met him
– Good people, I’d make you
– My honey, my pug
– The joys of wedlock soon are past
– Sound, sound the trumpet
– Make haste, make haste
– Trumpet air
– Let loud renown
The Sixteen conducted by Harry Christophers
(CD: The Indian Queen. Coro COR16129, 2015)
4 Cantata “Within a Verdant Grove” (1713)
– Recitative: Within a verdant grove
– Aria: Who can beat ye pangs of despair
– Recitative: The god of love are heard
– Aria: Lovely shepherd sigh no more
5 Cantata “Apollo and Daphne” (1713)
– Recitative: Wild as despair
– Aria: My dearest Daphe
– Recitative: Thus said he rudely
– Aria: Phoebus while you’re such
Delia Agúndez, soprano. Manuel Minguillón, archlute and baroque guitar. Laura Puerto, harpsichord and organ. Ruth Verona, violoncello
(CD: The Purcells. Enchiriades EN2042, 2015)
6 Magnificat in e minor
7 Nunc dimittis in e minor
Chichester Cathedral Choir conducted by Alan Thurlow. James Thomas, organ
(CD: Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis, volume 2. Priory PRCD 511, 1995)
8 O let my mouth be filled
Julia Gooding, Clara Sanabras, soprano. Timothy Roberts, organ
(CD: John Blow and his pupils. sfz music SFZM0207, 2008)
9 From “The unhappy penitent” (1700)
– Chaconne in a minor
Hazel Brooks, violin. David Pollock, harpsichord
Picture above: the painting Unknown man, formerly known as Daniel Purcell, by John Closterman (died 1711), National Portrait Gallery, London
