There sweetest flowers of mingled hue (Handel) Patrizia Kwella

"There sweetest flowers of mingled hue" from the masque Comus (HWV 44)
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)

Patrizia Kwella, soprano
The Academy of Ancient Music under Christopher Hogwood

Based on a libretto previously made by John Dalton for composer Thomas Arne's Comus, the masque was composed in 1745 for performance with the play Comus by John Milton during Handel's summer recuperation at the country seat of the Earl of Gainsborough.

There sweetest flowers of mingled hue,
Watered with Elysian dew,
There in everlasting bloom;
And ever on his musky wings
Balmy breezes Zephyr brings,
Wafting round the rich perfume.

CD available from Decca / L'Oiseau Lyre: http://www.amazon.com/Handel-Alceste-Kirkby-Elliott-Hogwood/dp/B000001358/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1275157793&sr=1-1

Photography in the video by Bella Kotak:
http://www.bellakotak.com/InBloom

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