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Music For A While: Improvisation On Purcell
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About Music For A While: Improvisation On Purcell
Christina Pluhar heads to the cooler climes of England with 'Music for a While', an album based on the haunting, graceful and sometimes deeply moving music of Henry Purcell. Often considered England's greatest composer, Purcell (1659-1695) represents an especially good match for the aesthetic of L'Arpeggiata: he made frequent use of the ground bass, a repeated (ostinato) figure in the lower line - the most famous instance of this occurs in Dido's lament 'When I am laid in earth', the closing number from his opera Dido and Aeneas. The ground bass provides an ideal foundation for the brilliant, sometimes jazz-like improvisation that is the stock-in-trade of L'Arpeggiata, here comprising singers, (plucked) strings, wind instruments, keyboard and percussion.
