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 Art.“ 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