Ravish'd with Sacred Extasies

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DOWLAND / CAMPIAN / HUMFREY / PURCELL
Ravish'd with Sacred Extasies
Elin Manahan Thomas (soprano) David Miller (lute & theorbo)

[ Coro / CD ]

Release Date: Wednesday 10 November 2010

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"If you think of lute songs as secular repertory, think again...Elin Manahan Thomas and lutenist David Miller illuminate this music's subtleties, infusing their reading with warmth and intimacy...this is a lovely contribution to recorded lute song." BBC Music

Continuing its work with the rising stars of the early music world, CORO is delighted to be releasing a brand new recording by two of The Sixteen's principal members - soprano, Elin Manahan Thomas and theorbo and lute player, David Miller.

The seventeenth century devotional songs on this disc were written against a backdrop of furious historical dramas and lurching tides of fortune. The songs chosen reflect these assorted times and contexts, and are accordingly diverse.

Ravish'd with Sacred Extasies (a quote taken directly from Playford's 'Harmonia Sacrae') explores some of the most beautiful Elizabethan lute songs ranging from the doctrinally eloquent to the theologically unsteady, from the spare and the restrained to the opulent and the overblown, from Dowland's small cluster of late devotional songs to Purcell's flowery and luscious settings.

Tracks:

anon.:
Miserere, my Maker

Campion:
Never weather-beaten sail
Author of Light

Dowland:
Thou mighty God
When David's life by Saul (A Pilgrimes Solace)
When the poore Criple (A Pilgrimes Solace)
Where sin sore wounding
In this trembling shadow cast
If that a sinner's sigh

Humfrey:
Sleep downy sleep come close mine eyes
A Hymne to God the Father

Purcell:
Thou wakeful shepherd that dost Israel keep (A Morning Hymn), Z198
How long, great God?, Z189
The Blessed virgin's expostulation
A Devine Hymn (Lord, what is man)
Sleep, Adam, and take thy rest, Z195
An Evening Hymn 'Now that the sun hath veiled his light', Z193