Christopher Purves

operatic bass

Born 1960
from United Kingdom

On fono: 8 songs
7 collaborators
10 cited facts
10 sources

The people around them

Who works with them most. Tap a person to see everything they made.

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Who makes their records

People credited as writer, producer, engineer or mixer on their songs.

Andrew Wedman
Engineered by
6 songs
Henry Purcell
Written by
6 songs
Lennart Dehn
Produced by
6 songs
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Written by
2 songs
Dr. Peter Czornyj
Produced by
1 song
Duncan Druce
Written by
1 song
Michael Finnissy
Written by
1 song

Worth knowing

Counted from cited credits on fono.

Lennart Dehn produced 6 of Christopher Purves’s top 8 songs
Andrew Wedman is Christopher Purves’s most frequent collaborator, credited on 6 songs
Christopher Purves recorded most at St. Bartholomew's Church (5 songs)
Credited songs by Christopher Purves span 18 years, 1995 to 2013 (8 songs)

Top songs

1
"O sing unto the Lord", Z. 44
Charles Daniels, Peter Harvey, Susan Hemington Jones, Julian Podger, Christopher Purves, Gabrieli Players, Paul McCreesh, 1995
From Harmonia Sacra
1. 2
  "In guilty night" (Saul and the Witch of Endor), Z. 134
  1995
2. 3
  "Awake, ye dead", Z. 182
  1995
3. 4
  "O, I'm sick of life", Z. 140
  1995
4. 5
  "Plung'd in the confines of despair", Z. 142
  1995
5. 6
  "My op'ning eyes are purg'd", Z. D72
  1995
From Requiem: Realisations
1. 7
  Benedictus
  2013
2. 8
  Lacrimosa
  2013

Where the songs were made

St. Bartholomew's Church5 songs
Brinkburn Priory1 song

Releases

2013
- Requiem: Realisations
  Album
1995
- Harmonia Sacra
  Album
- The All-Baroque Box From Monteverdi to Bach
  Album

Member of

Elsewhere

Sources (10)

Every fact on this page comes from one of these sources.

1MusicBrainz Christopher Purves is a member of Choir of King’s College, Cambridge
Christopher Purves is a member of Choir of King’s College, Cambridge
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2MusicBrainz Christopher Purves is a member of Gabrieli Consort & Players
Christopher Purves is a member of Gabrieli Consort & Players
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3MusicBrainz Christopher Purves is a member of Harvey & the Wallbangers
Christopher Purves is a member of Harvey & the Wallbangers
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4MusicBrainz Christopher Purves is a member of Il Seminario Musicale
Christopher Purves is a member of Il Seminario Musicale
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5MusicBrainz Christopher Purves is a member of Invocation
Christopher Purves is a member of Invocation
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6MusicBrainz Christopher Purves is a member of Monteverdi Choir
Christopher Purves is a member of Monteverdi Choir
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7MusicBrainz Christopher Purves is a member of Taverner Choir
Christopher Purves is a member of Taverner Choir
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8MusicBrainz Christopher Purves is a member of The English Concert Choir
Christopher Purves is a member of The English Concert Choir
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9MusicBrainz Christopher Purves is a member of The Sixteen
Christopher Purves is a member of The Sixteen
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10MusicBrainz Christopher Purves is from United Kingdom
Christopher Purves is from United Kingdom
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