| 词条 | Welcome to all the pleasures |
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Welcome to all the pleasures, Z. 339,{{efn|"Z" is Franklin B. Zimmerman's catalogue of Purcell's works.}} is a 1683 composition by Henry Purcell, the first of a series he wrote in honour of the patron saint of music, Saint Cecilia.[1] It was commissioned by an organisation called "The Musical Society" for performance in November 1683. WordsPurcell set a text by Christopher Fishburn, a relatively obscure figure who was related to Sir Christopher Wren.[2] It begins Of ev'ry sense the grateful appetite. Hail, great assembly of Apollo's race. Hail to this happy place, this musical assembly That seems to be the arc of universal harmony. MusicThe music is for vocal soloists, chorus and an ensemble of baroque instruments consisting of four-part strings (1st and 2nd violin, viola, cello) and basso continuo. As well as accompanying the singers, the instruments feature in an overture (called "symphony") and ritornelli. The piece takes about 18 minutes to perform. Movements{{ordered list|list_style_type=upper-roman|Symphony |Verse, chorus & ritornello: "Welcome to all the Pleasures" |Song & ritornello: "Here the deities approve" (one of the best-known numbers) |Verse & ritornello: "While joys celestial their bright souls invade" |Song & chorus: "Then lift up your voices" |Verse & chorus: "Then lift up your voices" |Instrumental interlude |Song & ritornello: "Beauty, thou scene of love" |Song & chorus: "In a consort of voices while instruments play"}} PublicationThe work was appeared in print in 1684.[3] The publisher was John Playford and the work was printed by his nephew John Playford the Younger. John Playford the Elder was at the end of his career and by this stage had handed most of the running of his business near Temple Church to his son Henry. After his father's death, Henry went on to publish a keyboard arrangement of "Here the deities approve" under the title "A new ground" (a ground bass forms the basis of the piece). It appeared in the compilation "The second part of Musick's handmaid" (1689). Notable performancesThe piece received its Proms premiere in 1963 when it was conducted by George Malcolm. The soloists were Alfred Deller (countertenor), Wilfred Brown (tenor) and John Shirley-Quirk (baritone).[4] Selected discographyCommercial recordings are mainly by British conductors, a notable exception is the Belgian Philippe Herreweghe who conducts the Collegium Vocale Gent in a 2007 version. Versions include:
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Notes{{notelist}}References1. ^1 From between 1680 and 1695 twenty-four of Purcell’s Odes and Welcome Songs survive: four celebrate St Cecilia’s day. ([https://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dc.asp?dc=D_CDA66314 Odes, Vol. 1 – Royal and Ceremonial Odes]. Hyperion Records) 2. ^{{Cite web |url=http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com |title=Fishburn, Christopher |last=Spink |first=Ian |date=2001 |website=Grove Music Online |access-date=2018-02-24}} (subscription required) 3. ^"Purcell, Henry (1659–1695)", Robert Thompson in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, ed. H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004); online ed., ed. David Cannadine, January 2008. Accessed November 18, 2017 (subscription or UK public library membership required). 4. ^[https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/e8xzc8 Thu 29 Aug 1963 Royal Albert Hall]. Proms performance archive 5. ^1 {{Cite journal|title=Purcell Odes|url=https://www.gramophone.co.uk/review/purcell-odes|journal=Gramophone|access-date=2017-11-20}} 2 : Odes and welcome songs by Henry Purcell|1683 compositions |
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