Purcell’s chamber music deserves to occupy an important place in the experience of musicians and listeners, not only because of its intrinsic excellence but because its being non- descriptive or absolute music-devoid of any text that might date it or weigh it down-enables us to perceive its beauties and subtleties with as much readiness as did the Londoners of the later Stuart era. Here Orpheus returns the Musical Heritage Society recordings featuring some of Britain’s foremost early music interpreters during the 1960s and 70s: violinists Carl Pini and John Tunnell, cellist Anthony Pini, and harpsichordist Harold Lester of Henry Purcell’s Twelve Sonatas in Three Parts Z. 790–801 in remastered high resolution audio.
