If Music be the Food of Love - Henry Purcell - Tim Mead and La Nuova Musica

Join La Nuova Musica for the first in their online series of Purcell's Finest Verses.
The first episode is Henry Purcell's 'If Music be the Food of Love' sung by countertenor Tim Mead.
Composed in 1690, the first line quotes Orsino's lines in Twelfth Night.

If music be the food of love,
Sing on till I am fill’d with joy;
For then my list’ning soul you move
To pleasures that can never cloy.
Your eyes, your mien, your tongue declare
That you are music ev’rywhere.
Pleasures invade both eye and ear,
So fierce the transports are, they wound,
And all my senses feasted are,
Tho’ yet the treat is only sound,
Sure I must perish by your charms,
Unless you save me in your arms.

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