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Purcell "Music for a while"

  Live from  AVRO Concerthall in Amsterdam.
Singer :Maarten Koningsberger
 Fred Jacobs plays  teorbe (Θεόρβη - Βικιπαίδεια)


Music for a while
Shall all your cares beguile
Wond'ring how your pains were eas'd
And disdaining to be pleas'd
Till Alecto free the dead
From their eternal bands
Till the snakes drop from her head.
And the whip from out her hand
Music for a while
Shall all your cares beguile
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Henry Purcell (1659-95)
Sweeter than roses
Pausanias, the Betrayer of his Country, incidental music, Z. 585
Andreas Scholl, countertenor
Ensemble Artaserse

Recorded live at TCE, 11.12.2010.
Broadcast on France Musique

Picture: Guido Reni (1575-1642): Girl with a rose
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Sweeter than roses, or cool evening breeze
On a warm flowery shore, was the dear kiss,
First trembling made me freeze,
Then shot like fire all o'er.
What magic has victorious love!
For all I touch or see since that dear kiss,
I hourly prove, all is love to me.