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PELHAM HUMFREY Verse Anthems Romanesca, Nicholas McGegan

1h18
1 CD
HMX2907053

Beginning as a choirboy in the Chapel Royal, Pelham Humfrey became rapidly London’s leading composer of church music. In his anthems, that constitute his most substantial legacy, Humfrey’s flexible and expressive adaptation of the Italian recitative style to English words is memorable.

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Artists

  • Drew Minter
    Countertenor
  • Rogers Covey-Crump
    Tenor
  • David Thomas
    Bass
  • Romanesca
  • Nicholas McGegan
    Conductor

Composers

  • Pelham Humfrey

Contents


PELHAM HUMFREY [1647-1674]
· O give thanks unto the Lord [dm, rcc, jp, dt] (9'51)
· O Lord my God [dm, rcc, dt] (11'45)
· Have mercy upon me, O God [dm, rcc, dt] (7'42)
· By the waters of Babylon [dm, rcc, jp, dt] (10'53)
· Lift up your heads [dm, rcc] (5'00)
· Hear, O Heav’ns [dm, jp, dt] (4'31)
· Hear my prayer, O God [dd, dm, rcc, dt] (5'42)
· Hear my crying, O God [dd, dm, rcc, jp, dt] (10'29)
· Like as the hart [dd, dm, jp, dt] (10'41)

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