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Title: Purcell: Songs & Airs / Argenta, North, Boothby, Nicholson, Toll
Artist: Henry Purcell
Label: EMI Classics
This Version Release Date: 06/05/2001
List Price: $10.98
Amazon Price: $6.35
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Track Listing
1 - 1O solitude, my sweetest choice, song, Z. 406
1 - 2Ah! How sweet it is to love (from 'Tyrannic Love'), song, Z. 613/2
1 - 3Not all my torments can your pity move, song, Z. 400
1 - 4Stript of their green our groves appear, song, Z. 444
1 - 5Tell me, some pitying angel, (The Blessed Virgin's Expostulation), sacred song, for soprano & continuo, Z. 196
1 - 6If music be the food of love, song, Z. 379 (3 settings)
1 - 7Hark! now the echoing air (from 'The Fairy Queen'), soprano aria and chorus, Z. 629/48
1 - 8The fatal hour comes on apace, song, Z. 421
1 - 9Incassum, Lesbia, incassum rogas (The Queen Epicedium), song, Z. 383
1 - 10Sweeter than roses (from 'Pausanius'), song, Z. 585/1
1 - 11Cupid, the slyest rogue alive, song, Z. 367
1 - 12From silent shades and the Elysian groves (Bess of Bedlam), song, Z. 370
1 - 13Dear pretty youth (from 'The Tempest'), aria, Z. 631/10
1 - 14From rosie bow'rs (from 'Don Quixote'), song, Z. 578/9
1 - 15Now that the sun hath veiled his light, sacred song for soprano & continuo ('An Evening Hymn'), Z. 193
1 - 16Beneath the poplar's shadow (from 'Sophonisba or Hannibal's Overthrow') Z. 590/1
1 - 17I attempt from Love's Sickness to Fly (from 'The Indian Queen'), Z630/17h
1 - 18Let Us Dance (from 'Prophetess'), aria for soprano, Z. 627/app3
1 - 19Fairest Isle (from 'King Arthur'), aria for soprano, Z. 628/38
1 - 20O solitude, my sweetest choice, song, Z. 406
2 - 1Nymphs and Shepherds (from 'The Libertine'), song, Z. 600/1
2 - 2Amidst the shades and cool and refreshing streams, for soprano & continuo, Z. 355
2 - 3Love in their little veins inspires (from 'Timon of Athens'), aria for soprano, 2 flutes and continuo, Z. 632/3
2 - 4Fly swift, ye hours, song, Z. 369
2 - 5They tell us that you mighty powers above (from 'The Indian Queen'), soprano aria, Z. 630/19
2 - 6O let me weep ('The Plaint' from 'The Fairy Queen'), aria, Z. 629/40
2 - 7In the black, dismal dungeon of despair, sacred song for soprano & continuo, Z. 190
2 - 8See even Night herself is here (from 'The Fairy Queen'), soprano aria, Z. 629/11
2 - 9Why should men quarrel (from 'The Indian Queen'), soprano aria, Z. 630/4c-4d
2 - 10Seek not to know what must not be reveal'd (from 'The Indian Queen'), aria, Z. 630/15
2 - 11Retir'd from any mortal's sight (from 'The History of King Richard II'), song, Z. 581/1
2 - 12To arms, heroic prince, (from 'The Libertine'), prelude & song, Z. 600/3
2 - 13O lead me to some peaceful gloom (from 'Bonduca'), song, Z. 574/17
2 - 14Halcyon days (from 'The Tempest'), sopoano aria, Z. 631/15
2 - 15Come ye sons of art away (Birthday ode for Queen Mary), for soloists, chorus & instruments, Z. 323: No. 7, Bid the virtues
2 - 16Lord, what is man?, sacred song for soprano & continuo, Z. 192
2 - 17Music for a While (from 'Oedipus'), song, Z. 583/2
2 - 18If music be the food of love, song, Z. 379 (3 settings)
2 - 19Sawney is a bonny lad, song, Z. 412
2 - 20When I have often heard (from 'The Fairy Queen'), soprano aria, Z. 629/23
2 - 21Ah cruel, bloody fate (from 'Theodosius'), song, Z. 606/9
2 - 22Thy hand, Belinda...When I am laid in Earth (from 'Dido and Aeneas'), soprano aria, Z. 626/37

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