COMPOSERS: Blow & Finger,Paisible,Pepusch,Purcell
LABELS: BIS
ALBUM TITLE: Collection: The Lonely Shepherd
WORKS: Works by Pepusch, Paisible, Purcell, Blow & Finger
PERFORMER: Bergen Barokk
CATALOGUE NO: CD-965
A delightful disc built around the distinctly secular cantatas of Pepusch, with interludes provided by contemporaries from London’s musical life early in the 18th century. Julsrud is a beguiling soprano, but it is Frode Thorsen’s sublime recorder playing which steals the show. Christopher Dingle
Pepusch, Paisible, Purcell, Blow & Finger
A delightful disc built around the distinctly secular cantatas of Pepusch, with interludes provided by contemporaries from London’s musical life early in the 18th century. Julsrud is a beguiling soprano, but it is Frode Thorsen’s sublime recorder playing which steals the show. Christopher Dingle
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