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Download Booklet 573280bk Purcell2:570034bk Hasse 24/2/16 5:08 PM Page 12 PURCELL Also available: Theatre Music • 2 The Married Beau • The Old Bachelor Sir Anthony Love • The Spanish Friar • Aureng-Zebe Aradia Ensemble • Kevin Mallon Johane Ansell, Soprano • Jason Nedecky, Baritone 8.570149 C M Y K 8.573280 12 573280bk Purcell2:570034bk Hasse 24/2/16 5:08 PM Page 2 Henry Purcell (1659–1695) % Act V: Song The Old Bachelor, Z. 607 Theatre Music • 2 In vain Clemene, you bestow, (Text: William Congreve, 1670–1729) The promis’d Empire of your Heart; ( Act II: Song The Married Beau, Aureng-Zebe, Z. 573 1:49 If you refuse to let me know, or, the Curious Impertinent, Z. 603 20:25 ^ Song: I see she flies me ev’rywhere 1:49 The wealthy Charms of every part. Thus to a ripe, consenting maid, 1 Overture 2:53 Johane Ansell, Soprano Poor, old, repenting Delia said, My Passion with your kindness grew, 2 Slow Air 2:30 The Old Bachelor, Z. 607 23:13 Would you long preserve your lover? 3 Tho’ Beauty gave the first desire, Would you still his goddess reign? Hornpipe 1:25 & Overture 3:22 4 But Beauty only to pursue, Never let him all discover, Air 1:40 * Hornpipe 1:53 5 Is foll’wing a wand’ring Fire. Never let him much obtain. Hornpipe 1:25 ( Song (Act II): Thus to a ripe, consenting maid 2:11 6 Jig 2:26 Johane Ansell, Soprano As Hills in perspective, suppress, Men will admire, adore and die, 7 Trumpet Air 1:50 ) Slow Air 3:17 The free enquiry of the sight: While wishing at your feet they lie: 8 Song (Act V): See where repenting Celia lyes 3:03 ¡ Hornpipe 1:26 Restraint makes every Pleasure less, But admitting their embraces, Johane Ansell, Soprano ™ Duet (Act III): As Amoret and Thyrsis lay 3:08 And takes from Love the full delight. Wakes ’em from the golden dream; 9 March 1:27 Johane Ansell, Soprano; Jason Nedecky, Baritone Faint Kisses may in part supply, Nothing’s new besides our faces, 0 Hornpipe On A Ground 1:36 £ Rondeau 1:11 Those eager Longings of my Soul; Every woman is the same. The Spanish Friar, ¢ Menuet 1:39 But oh! I’m lost, if you deny, ™ Act 3: Duet or, The Double Discovery, Z. 610 3:06 ∞ Bourée 1:12 A quick possession of the whole. As Amoret and Thyrsis lay ! Song: Whilst I with grief did on you look 3:06 § March 2:08 Melting the hours in gentle play, Johane Ansell, Soprano ¶ Jig 1:37 Joining faces, mingling kisses, Sir Anthony Love, And exchanging harmless blisses: or, the Rambling Lady, Z. 588 14:07 Aureng-Zebe, Z. 573 He trembling cried, with eager haste, @ Overture 3:41 (Text: John Dryden, 1631–1700) O let me feed as well as taste, # Song (Act II): Pursuing Beauty, Men descry 4:59 ^ Song I die, if I’m not wholly blest. Johane Ansell, Soprano $ Dialogue (Act IV): No more, Sir, no more 2:39 I see she flies me ev’rywhere, Johane Ansell, Soprano; Jason Nedecky, Baritone Her eyes her scorn discover; % Song (Act V): In vain Clemene, you bestow 2:43 But what’s her scorn or my despair, Johane Ansell, Soprano Since ’tis my fate to love her. Were she but kind whom I adore, I might live longer, but not love her more. C M Y K 8.573280 2 11 8.573280 573280bk Purcell2:570034bk Hasse 24/2/16 5:08 PM Page 10 The Married Beau, Sir Anthony Love, Born in 1659, Henry Purcell was the son of a musician, The Married Beau; or, the Curious Impertinent is an or the Curious Impertinent, Z. 603 or the Rambling Lady, Z. 588 Thomas Purcell, and the nephew of Henry Purcell, both affectionate, somewhat risqué comedy written by John (Text: John Crowne, 1641–1712) (Text: Thomas Southerne, 1660–1746) of whom served as gentlemen of the Chapel Royal in Crowne. The plot is relatively straightforward: Mr and London after the restoration of the monarchy. Taking after Mrs Lovely are newly married. Mr Lovely, suspicious of 8 Act V: Song # Act II: Song his father, at the age of ten the younger Henry Purcell his wife, sets out to test her faithfulness to him by asking See where repenting Celia lyes, Pursuing Beauty, Men descry found work at the Chapel Royal too, becoming a chorister. his friend Polidor to seduce her. He agrees – and succeeds. With blushing cheeks, and melting eyes, The distant Shore, and long to prove He took lessons from two successive Masters of the Filled with remorse, Mrs Lovely confesses in the fifth Bemoaning, in a mournful shade, (Still richer in Variety) Children, Henry Cooke and Pelham Humfrey, and two act. In his preface, Crowne – whose own morality had The ruins in her heart and fame, The Treasures of the Land of Love. years later, after the latter’s early death, from his famous recently been called into question by his critics – launched Which sinful love has made. We women, like weak Indians, stand contemporary John Blow. That same year brought the into a rather spirited defence of her, writing that although Oh! let thy tears, fair Celia, flow, Inviting, from Golden Coast, appointment of Purcell as organ tuner at Westminster she had been ‘vanquished by temptation’ and ‘led out to For that celestial, wond’rous dew, The wand’ring rovers to our Land; Abbey, where he became organist five years later upon be debauch’d’, she ‘return[ed] and confess[ed] her sin.’ More graces on thee will bestow, But she, who trades with ’em, is lost. John Blow’s resignation in 1679. His position as a com- Purcell wrote only one song for the play, ‘See where Than all thy dresses, and thy arts could do. poser had already been acknowledged by appointment in repenting Celia lyes’, but also provided a suite of Be wise, be wise, and do not try, 1677 as ‘composer in ordinary’ for the Twenty-Four incidental music, which was eventually published after How they can Court, or you be Won; Violins of the King, the group of musicians established by the composer’s death. The text of the song, sung by Mrs For Love is but Discovery, Charles II in imitation of the practice of the French court. Lovely’s maid, can be read either as serious or parodically When that is made, the pleasure’s done. The Spanish Friar, Purcell’s career went on as it had begun, with continuing coquettish, but Purcell’s setting is deeply melancholy and or The Double Discovery, Z. 610 $ Act IV: Dialogue royal favour, including appointment to the King’s private powerful, full of drooping melismas and lamentation. (Text: John Dryden, 1631–1700) music under James II and William III and appointment as John Dryden is the author of The Spanish Friar; or, Woman an organist at the Chapel Royal. In 1695 Purcell died, The Double Discovery, originally given its première in ! Song No more, sir, no more, I’ll e’en give it o’er, having caught cold, it was later rumoured, from being 1680. The plot – a complex political drama – also I see it is all but a cheat; Whilst I with grief did on you look, locked out by his wife, tired of his late hours. provided Dryden ample opportunity for lively comic Your soft wishing eyes, your vows, and your lies, Purcell’s duties revolved mainly around writing sacred effect, and the play was highly successful. Purcell’s song When love had turn’d your brain, Which thus you so often repeat. From you, I the contagion took, music, but he also appears to have had a lifelong passion ‘Whilst I with grief did on you look’ was performed in a And for you bore the pain. Man for the theatre, and some of his most famous works – revival around 1695. Within the play it is sung by an ’Tis’ you are to blame, who foolishly claim Dido and Aeneas being a prime example – were written attendant to Queen Leonora, who has been unjustly Marcella, then your lover prize, So silly a lean sacrifice: for the stage. This recording features some of his lesser- accused of murdering her new husband’s father. The song And be not too severe; But lovers, who pray, must always obey, known theatre music from various points in his career. opens with a spare, declamatory recitative before Use well the conquest of your eyes, And bring down their knees and their eyes. The London theatrical world was a hotbed of back- transitioning into a sorrowful air. For pride has cost you dear. stabbing, rivalry and intrigues worthy of a Restoration The central trouser rôle in Thomas Southerne’s highly Woman comedy, and music – especially music by a sought-after successful play Sir Anthony Love; or, the Rambling Lady Ambrosio treats your flames with scorn, Of late you have made devotion a trade And racks your tender mind, composer such as Purcell – could give a performance a (first performed in 1690) was created for a specific In loving as well as religion; vital edge over competing entertainments. Purcell’s actress: Susannah Percival Mountfort. The plot is fairly Withdraw your smiles and frowns return, But you cannot prove, thro’ th’ ages of love, And pay him in his kind. contribution to these plays included incidental music and typical: the spirited young hell-raiser Lucia robs her Any worship was offer’d but one.
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