The Sixteen & Harry Christophers – Royal Welcome Songs for King Charles II Volume II (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

The Sixteen & Harry Christophers – Royal Welcome Songs for King Charles II Volume II (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:12:25 minutes | 1,26 GB | Genre: Classical
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King Charles II liked to project a strong, stable, divinely legitimated image. Whilst that image had no basis in reality, the scale of his deception and financial skulduggery did not emerge until 19th-century historians discovered secret treaty documents between Charles and King Louis XIV of France. Purcell had no idea of course, and so all of the music on this album celebrates the political triumphs that he and his colleagues thought they had witnessed. It includes the quite brilliant Welcome Songs ‘Welcome to all the pleasures’ (with its superb six-part fanfares to St Cecilia in the final chorus) and ‘From hardy climes’.

Tracklist:
01. The Sixteen & Harry Christophers – Hear My Prayer, O Lord, Z. 15 (02:28)
02. The Sixteen & Harry Christophers – O Solitude, My Sweetest Choice, Z. 406 (06:13)
03. The Sixteen & Harry Christophers – Lord, How Long Wilt Thou Be Angry, Z. 25 (03:30)
04. The Sixteen & Harry Christophers – Pavan of Four Parts in G Minor, Z. 752 (04:38)
05. The Sixteen & Harry Christophers – Plung’d in the Confines of Despair, Z. 142 (04:10)
06. The Sixteen & Harry Christophers – Welcome to all the Pleasures (Ode for St Cecilia’s Day), Z. 339: Symphony (03:26)
07. The Sixteen & Harry Christophers – Welcome to all the Pleasures (Ode for St Cecilia’s Day), Z. 339: Welcome to all the Pleasures (01:51)
08. The Sixteen & Harry Christophers – Welcome to all the Pleasures (Ode for St Cecilia’s Day), Z. 339: Here the Deities Approve (04:14)
09. The Sixteen & Harry Christophers – Welcome to all the Pleasures (Ode for St Cecilia’s Day), Z. 339: While Joys Celestial (03:29)
10. The Sixteen & Harry Christophers – Welcome to all the Pleasures (Ode for St Cecilia’s Day), Z. 339: Beauty, Thou Scene of Love (02:45)
11. The Sixteen & Harry Christophers – Welcome to all the Pleasures (Ode for St Cecilia’s Day), Z. 339: In a Consort of Voices (01:19)
12. The Sixteen & Harry Christophers – In Thee, O Lord, do I put my Trust, Z. 16 (11:16)
13. The Sixteen & Harry Christophers – From Silent Shades and the Elysian Groves, Z. 370 (04:43)
14. The Sixteen & Harry Christophers – Catch – Of all the Instruments that are, Z. 263 (01:22)
15. The Sixteen & Harry Christophers – From Hardy Climes and Dangerous Toils of War, Z. 325: Symphony (02:28)
16. The Sixteen & Harry Christophers – From Hardy Climes and Dangerous Toils of War, Z. 325: From Hardy Climes (03:03)
17. The Sixteen & Harry Christophers – From Hardy Climes and Dangerous Toils of War, Z. 325: Fame, Great Sir (02:36)
18. The Sixteen & Harry Christophers – From Hardy Climes and Dangerous Toils of War, Z. 325: Wake then, my Muse! (01:59)
19. The Sixteen & Harry Christophers – From Hardy Climes and Dangerous Toils of War, Z. 325: The Sparrow and the Gentle Dove (04:05)
20. The Sixteen & Harry Christophers – From Hardy Climes and Dangerous Toils of War, Z. 325: So all the Boons (02:43)

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