Battle Cry: She Speaks
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PURCELL / MONTERVERDI / STROZZI / ECCLES / PARK / etc
Battle Cry: She Speaks
Helen Charlston (mezzo-soprano) Toby Carr (theorbo)
[ Resonus / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 27 May 2022
This item is only available to us via Special Order. We should be able to get it to you in 3 - 6 weeks from when you order it.
"Charlston plumbs the texts with cut-glass diction and full-bodied as a good claret, and she offers highly expressive readings of the texts, plumbing their depths with cut-glass diction and a glorious range of colours and timbres...She's adeptly supported by Toby Carr, who coaxes soft and sonorous sounds from his theorbo." Choral & Song Choice BBC Music Magazine August 2022
"Carr's theorbo playing is sensuous and vivid, and works especially well in the sonic explorations of the four songs by Park. Charlston's distinctive, expressive lower register, and the clarity of every word, contribute to an outstanding disc." Guardian
Tracks:
Purcell: O lead me to some peaceful gloom (from Bonduca or The British Heroine, Z574)
Strozzi: L'Eraclito amoroso, Op. 2 No. 14
Visée: Prélude
Eccles, J: Restless in thought
Purcell: Dido and Aeneas -
Thy hand, Belinda / When I am laid in earth (Dido's Lament)
Park: Battle Cry
Kapsberger: Libro quarto d'intavolatura di chitarone: Preluido V
Strozzi: La travagliata
Monteverdi: L'Arianna, SV 291: Lamento d'Arianna
Visée: Sarabande
Purcell: An Evening Hymn 'Now that the sun hath veiled his light', Z193
