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Author Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695

Title O solitude / Henry Purcell
Published [France] : Astrée Naïve, ©2003

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Contents O solitude my sweetest choice! Z 406 (6:06) -- If music be the food of love Z 379c (3:42) -- The fatal hour comes on apace Z 421 (3:29) -- What a sad fate is mine Z 428b (3:40) -- While Thirsis, wrapp'd in downy sleep (A pastoral coronation song) Z 437 (1:50) -- Air instrumental (The Indian queen 1694 Z 630) (1:06) -- Air lent (Distressed innocence 1690 Z 577) (1:39) -- I attempt from love's sickness instrumental (The Indian queen 1694 Z 630) (1:26) -- Ask me to love no more Z 368 (1:23) -- Beneath a dark and melancholy grove (Sappho's complaint) Z 461 (3:27) -- If pray'rs and tears (Sighs for our late sovereign King Charles the second) Z 380 (7:02) -- Incassum Lesbia (The queen's epicidium) Z 383 (7:23) -- In Cloris all soft charms agree Z 384 (2:16) -- A thousand sev'ral ways I tried to hide Z 459 (0:40) -- Intermède instrumental (manuscript, British Library) (0:54) -- Bacchus is a pow'r divine Z 360 (3:06) -- Intermède instrumental (manuscript, British Library) (0:41) -- Song tune instrumental (manuscript, British Library) (0:43) -- Young Thirsis' fate ye hills and groves deplore (An elegy upon the death of Mr. Thomas Farmer, B.M.) Z 473 (5:10) -- An evening hymn (Now, now that the sun hath veil'd his light) Z 193 in Harmonia Sacra 1688 (3:28)
Notes English texts with French translations (12th song Latin with English translation) and program notes in English and French (34 pages) inserted in container
Credits Recording producer, Etienne Collard
Performer Gérard Lesne, alto ; Il seminario musicale (Bruno Cocset, basse de violon ; Blandine Rannou, clavecin & orgue positif ; Pascal Monteilhet, théorbe)
Event Recorded in the Chapelle de l'école Ste Geneviève (Versailles, France), October, 2002
Notes Sung in English and Latin
Hard copy version record
Subject Songs (High voice) with continuo.
Operas -- Excerpts.
Operas -- Excerpts
Songs (High voice) with continuo
Genre/Form Streaming audio
excerpts.
Excerpts
Excerpts.
Extraits.
Form Streaming audio
Author Lesne, Gérard.
Coscet, Bruno.
Rannou, Blandine.
Monteilhet, Pascal.
Seminario musicale (Musical group)
Other Titles Vocal music. Selections
Addition title from back of container: O solitude & songs