Robert King, The King's Consort - Henry Purcell: Royal Odes (2021)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 442 Mb | Total time: 81:12 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Vivat Music Foundation | # VIVAT 121 | Recorded: 2020
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 442 Mb | Total time: 81:12 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Vivat Music Foundation | # VIVAT 121 | Recorded: 2020
The present recording was accomplished in 2020 by socially distanced musicians, and director Robert King puts things in perspective, observing in his notes that Henry Purcell lived through the London plague of 1665, during which 15 percent of the city's population perished.