Format : Sheet music
Hear My Prayer Oh Lord manifests Purcell’s genius not only in his unerring setting of each line but in addition of challenging intervals and discordant moments to what is a deceptively simple melodic line. Purcell’s affecting anthem Hear My Prayer Oh Lord was writing in 1680 approximately and is likely to be part of a larger unfinished work. The autograph manuscript is held in the Cambridge Fitzwilliam Museum from which John E West has edited this rendering of the work.
SKU: HL.14042246
ISBN 9781780382227. UPC: 884088922061. 6.5x9.75x0.045 inches.
This setting of the opening to Psalm 102 was composed in the early 1680s. Purcell, who was in his early twenties, had succeeded John Blow as organist of Westminster Abbey around the beginning of the decade and his star was in the ascendant as a court composer.In this piece he pulls off a remarkable compositional coup: a single, gradual climax, lasting over two minutes and culminating on the final repetition of the word 'come', is achieved through a sublime, freely developing eight-part weave of the opening material. The harmonies that result from the chromatic inflections on the word 'crying' all serve the mounting tension in this extraordinary miniature.Studyof the autograph manuscript suggest that this anthem was intended to be the opening part of a larger work which was never completed.
SKU: HL.14066061
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