{"product_id":"various-music-all-powerful-music-to-entertain-qn-victoria-partridge-brown-lumsden-purcell-consort-of-voices","title":"Music All Powerful: Music to Entertain Queen Victoria - Purcell Consort of Voices","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0067\/4660\/3571\/files\/ABOUT_THIS_RECORDING_W._WORLD_2_e41329ea-b9a9-4e85-9c74-e4ca06232094_480x480.png?v=1597936917\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘Music All Powerful – Music to entertain Queen Victoria’ provides a delightful flashback of the British Royal Family and is the first release on CD of a delightful Argo LP. It offers solo songs, unaccompanied and accompanied choral songs and a handful of instrumental numbers such as would have been performed for and during Queen Victoria’s reign. The Purcell Consort of Voices under Grayston Burgess is joined by a group of instrumental soloists, including the superb violinist Iona Brown, with pianist Jennifer Partridge both accompanying and playing a Mendelssohn Song without Words and a Chaminade piece. For bringing back songs from obscurity alone, this is a worthy CD. But it also recalls obscure composers like Pinsuti, Klosé, Beale, Galkin, Walmisley and Callcott and an obscure instrument – the ophicleide (the instrument Mendelssohn wanted for Bottom’s braying in the Midsummer Night’s Dream overture). The performances are idiomatic and charming, the programming a joy. Geoffrey Coleby provides the amusing notes: ‘…when they could burst the shackles of their dreadful academic training, the Victorians could show a touching great-heartedness which is their most endearing feature’.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAll song texts are included.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0067\/4660\/3571\/files\/REVIEWS_CS_WORLD_7169b53a-dbe6-4c81-930b-be7f7575534e_480x480.png?v=1597936904\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e‘irresistably charming … And there is plenty of variety … “Sweet and low” [is] most beautifully sung … A particularly charming item is the duet by Alice M. Smith … Alan Lumsden (a trombonist by profession) is splendid in the variations by Klosé for ophicleide and piano. I had not previously heard a solo on this instrument, and it is a memorable experience’ Gramophone\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0067\/4660\/3571\/files\/TRACK_LISTING_WITH_WORLD_1_4b3088c9-df3c-47ba-bf41-5b7e5d1a8144_480x480.png?v=1597936873\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1 TOURS: The Stars beyond the Cloud\u003cbr\u003e2 PINSUTI: Good night, Beloved\u003cbr\u003e3 SULLIVAN: I would I were a King\u003cbr\u003e4 PRINCE ALBERT: Melody for the Violin\u003cbr\u003e5 MENDELSSOHN: The Passage Bird’s Farewell, Op. 63 No. 2\u003cbr\u003e6 MENDELSSOHN: Song without words, Op. 38 No. 2 ‘Lost Happiness’\u003cbr\u003e7 BARNBY: Sweet and low\u003cbr\u003e8 KLOSÉ: Air Varie for ophicleide\u003cbr\u003e9 BEALE: Come let us join the Roundelay\u003cbr\u003e10 MENDELSSOHN: Autumn Song, Op. 63 No. 4\u003cbr\u003e11 GALKIN: Mazurka\u003cbr\u003e12 WALMISLEY: Music, all powerful\u003cbr\u003e13 SMITH: O that we two were maying\u003cbr\u003e14 CALLCOTT: The Lark now leaves his Watery Nest\u003cbr\u003e15 CHAMINADE: Arlequin\u003cbr\u003e16 BENSON: A Loyal Ode\u003cbr\u003e17 SULLIVAN: The Long Day Closes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePurcell Consort of Voices\u003cbr\u003eJennifer Partridge, piano\u003cbr\u003eIona Brown, violin\u003cbr\u003eAlan Lumsden, ophicleid\u003cbr\u003eDavid King, speaker\u003cbr\u003eGrayston Burgess\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DECCA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32340433207383,"sku":"028948020911","price":9.21,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0067\/4660\/3571\/products\/00028948020911-cover.jpg?v=1599855351","url":"https:\/\/classicselectworld.com\/de-de\/products\/various-music-all-powerful-music-to-entertain-qn-victoria-partridge-brown-lumsden-purcell-consort-of-voices","provider":"ClassicSelect World","version":"1.0","type":"link"}