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The Purcell anthems found here have been often recorded, and I can safely recommend the thicker textured recordings led by George Guest, as well as the Robert King and Gustav Leonhardt recordings. Still there is much to recommend in this new recording. Going from the Guest recording of Sing Unto the Lord, one notices immediately the smaller group of strings on this new recording, and also the unique cheerfulness with which bass Neal Davies sings his part: He might as well be one of the sailors in Dido and Aeneas. The recording includes in its vocal ensemble a boy treble, Peter Hicks. The Purcell is always stylish and the music of course wonderful.
I am even more enthusiastic about the Pelham Humfrey. Born in 1647, Humfrey studied in France and Italy. He was a sophisticate. He was also, according to Samuel Pepys, unbearably vain, disparaging of every other musician. Pepys put it succinctly: “His vanity doth offend me.” But how touching, and interesting in unexpected ways, is his setting of the Psalm O Lord my God, why hast thou forsaken me? The Psalm is itself remarkable, with its verse: “I am poured out like water, all my bones are out of joint: my heart also in the midst of my body is ev’n like melting wax.” The musical rendition is striking: The complaint is physical as well as spiritual, and it is convincing. The recording is spacious and clear; the performances excellent and the music inspiring.
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