Description
Purcell song over a ground bass, "She loves & she confesses too" Z. 413, performed by the award-winning Early Music ensemble Voices of Music. 8K Video from our Valentine's Day Concert 2026.
Vintage Purcell!
Voices of Music
Hanneke van Proosdij & David Tayler, directors
Danielle Reutter-Harrah, soprano
Elizabeth Blumenstock & Augusta McKay Lodge, baroque violin
William Skeen, baroque cello
Hanneke van Proosdij, harpsichord
David Tayler, baroque guitar
Text:
She loves and she confesses too,
There's then at last no more to do;
The happy work's entirely done,
Enter the town which thou hast won;
The fruits of conquest now begin,
Io, triumph, enter in.
What's this, ye Gods? What can it be?
Remains there still an enemy?
Bold Honour stands up in the gate,
And would yet capitulate.
Have I o'ercome all real foes,
And shall this phantom me oppose?
Noisy nothing, stalking shade,
By what witchcraft wert thou made,
Thou empty cause of solid harms?
But I shall find out counter charms,
Thy airy devilship to remove
From this circle here of love
Sure I shall rid myself of thee
By the night's obscurity,
And obscurer secrecy;
Unlike to ev'ry other spright
Thou attempt'st not men to affright
Nor appear'st but in the light. --Abraham Cowley’s The Mistress (1656)
Music: Boby Borisov, audio engineer and ambisonics design
Video: Lloyd Hryciw & Rob Clevenger
8K technology: David Tayler
Produced by Hanneke van Proosdij & David Tayler
Post Production: David Tayler & Andrew Levy
Audio mastering, video cutting and final 8K color and render: David Tayler
Violin parts composed by David & Hanneke
Copyright 2026 Voices of Music