The Purcell Thread

[JBS]

This is a recent discovery for me

I think it's as least as good as any other MI performance.
If you download, you can get the 2020 remastering Warner did for its big Barbirolli box.

[calyptorhynchus]

You know when you know some piece or pieces really well, but haven't heard them for 5 years or so what shock it is to listen to them again and remember how good they are. This happened with me today:



(Original cover art for the three separate CDs was much better).

Just marvellous, many of these are complete masterpieces in a 5-6 minute span.

[Mandryka]

You know when you know some piece or pieces really well, but haven't heard them for 5 years or so what shock it is to listen to them again and remember how good they are. This happened with me today:



(Original cover art for the three separate CDs was much better).

Just marvellous, many of these are complete masterpieces in a 5-6 minute span.

It's a fine recording which I hadn't heard before - I've enjoyed most everything I've ever heard from the Purcell Quartet.  My only other contact with Purcell's sonatas is from the Robert King CD.