Credits
PERFORMING ARTISTS
Gillian Fisher
Soprano
Robert King
Conductor
The King's Consort
Orchestra
Tessa Bonner
Soprano
Rogers Covey-Crump
Tenor
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Henry Purcell
Composer
Songtexte
As Fame, great Sir, before you ran
And told her story ere you came,
But falter’d as she set it forth,
For who can reach immortal worth;
So doubtless back again she flew
To paint the beauties now you view,
But in the draft as ill expressed,
The wonders you have since possessed.
For since Heaven pleas’d th’almighty work to take
And framed the two did the first wedding make;
We sing the pair (by that great Pattern taught),
Nature has nearest that Perfection wrought.
Written by: Henry Purcell

