Henry Purcell: Strike the Viol; Thomas Cooley, tenor

The invocation to the musical instruments of the Muses, Strike the viol, touch the lute, from Henry Purcell s Come ye Sons of HD Video from the Purcell Project by the San Francisco based Early Music ensemble Voices of Music. Featuring Thomas Cooley, tenor; Lisa Grodin Carla Moore, baroque violins; Elisabeth Reed, viola da gamba, Hanneke van Proosdij, harpsichord; David Tayler, archlute. In the title, the word touch means to play a note or chord, and the word strike similarly means to draw