A Thousand Charms Grace Davidson & Julian Perkins

• Henry Purcell (1658/9 - 1695): If music be the food of love, Z. 379:
• 1 Purcell: If music be the food of love, Z. 379 02:24
• Pausanius, Z.585, Act III:
• 2 Purcell: Pausanius, Z.585, Act III: No. 1, Sweeter than Roses 03:11
• The Indian Queen, Z. 630, Act III:
• 3 Purcell: The Indian Queen, Z. 630, Act III: No. 10, I attempt from Loves sickness to fly 01:53
• The Indian Queen, Z. 630, Act IV:
• 4 Purcell: The Indian Queen, Z. 630, Act IV: No. 1, They tell us that your mighty powers above 04:40
• Suite in D Minor:
• 5 Purcell: Suite in D Minor: I. Almand, very slow 04:41
• 6 Purcell: Suite in D Minor: II. Corant 01:38
• 7 Purcell: Suite in D Minor: III. Sarabande 01:16
• 8 Purcell: Suite in D Minor: IV. Hornpipe 01:37
• Thomas Campion (1567 - 1620): Never weather-beaten sail:
• 9 Campion: Never weather-beaten sail 02:11
• Author of Light:
• 10 Campion: Author of Light 02:59
• Thomas Arne (1710 - 1778): The Tempest, Act V Scene I:
• 11 Arne: The Tempest, Act V Scene I: Where the bee sucks, there lurk I (Ariel) (Arr. for Soprano and Harpsichord by Alex Barrett) 02:12
• Judith, Act II Scene V:
• 12 Arne: Judith, Act II Scene V: Sleep, gentle Cherub! Sleep descend (Judith) 03:00
• Harpsichord Sonata No. 5 in B Flat Major:
• 13 Arne: Harpsichord Sonata No. 5 in B Flat Major: I. Poco largo 01:42
• 14 Arne: Harpsichord Sonata No. 5 in B Flat Major: II. Gavotta 02:13
• Pelham Humfrey (1647 - 1674): A Hymne to God the Father:
• 15 Humfrey: A Hymne to God the Father 02:43
• John Blow (1649 - 1708): Sabina has a thousand charms:
• 16 Blow: Sabina has a thousand charms 02:35
• Lovely Selina:
• 17 Blow: Lovely Selina 03:01
• John Eccles (1670 - 1735): Belinda’s pretty pleasing form:
• 18 Eccles: Belinda’s pretty pleasing form 01:16
• George Frideric Handel (1685 - 1759): Semele, HWV 58, Act II Scene II:
• 19 Handel: Semele, HWV 58, Act II Scene II: O sleep, why dost thou leave me (Semele) 03:21
• Semele, HWV 58, Act III Scene II:
• 20 Handel: Semele, HWV 58, Act III Scene II: My racking thoughts by no kind slumbers freed (Semele) 02:48
• Semele, HWV 58, Act III Scene IV:
• 21 Handel: Semele, HWV 58, Act III Scene IV: No. 6, I Ever Am Granting (Semele) 01:41
• Henry Purcell: Tyrannic Love, Z. 613, Act IV:
• 22 Purcell: Tyrannic Love, Z. 613, Act IV: No. 2, Ah! How sweet it is to love 04:06
• An Evening Hymn, Z. 193 (Arr. for Soprano and Organ by Benjamin Britten):
• 23 Purcell: An Evening Hymn, Z. 193 (Arr. for Soprano and Organ by Benjamin Britten) 04:40
• Total Runtime 01:01:48

Info for A Thousand Charms

Grace Davidson
is a British soprano who specialises first and foremost in the performance and recording of Baroque music.

Grace won the Early Music Prize while studying singing at London’s Royal Academy of Music. Since then, she has worked with leading Baroque ensembles of our day, singing under the batons of Sir John Eliot Gardner. Paul McCreesh, Philippe Herrweghe and Harry Christophers. Her discography includes a decade of CDs with The Sixteen, many of which feature her as soloist – Handel’s Jeptha (as Angel), Dixit Dominus, Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610, Pianto della Madonna, and the Lutheran Masses of Bach.

Next year she will record Acis and Galatea for Harry Christophers with a performance at Wigmore Hall.

The technical mastery that comes with singing Baroque music plus Grace’s musicality and exceptional purity of tone have broadened her career into the worlds of contemporary classical and crossover music. With Max Richter she has recorded Sleep and Woolfworks (for Deutsche Gramophon). She has already performed Sleep all over the world; next year, performances are planned in New Zealand, the USA, Germany and Australia. Next year she will record Memoryhouse, also by Richter.

She has made recordings (on Decca) with the American composer Eric Whitacre, with Christian Forshaw’s Sanctuary Ensemble and with Patrick Hawes on his celebrated album Angel. She is the solo singer on Howard Shore’s live-to-projection concert version of Lord of the Rings.

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