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Author Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695, composer

Title Songs and airs / Purcell
Published [Place of publication not identified] : Erato, [1994]

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Description 1 online resource (1 audio file)
Series Veritas (London, England)
Contents O solitude ; Ah! how sweet it is to love ; Not all my torments ; Stripp'd of their green ; Tell me, some pitying angel ; If music be the food of love ; Hark! hark! the echoing air ; The fatal hour comes on apace ; Incassum, Lesbia ; Sweeter than roses ; Cupid, the slyest rogue alive ; From silent shades ; Dear pretty youth ; From rosy bow'rs ; Now that the sun hath veil'd his light ; Beneath a poplar's shadow ; I attempt from love's sickness to fly ; Let us dance ; Fairest isle ; O solitude -- Nymphs and shepherds ; Amidst the shades and cool refreshing streams ; Love in their little veins inspires ; Fly swift, ye hours ; They tell us that your mighty powers ; The plaint: O let me weep ; In the black, dismal dungeon of despair ; See, even Night herself is here ; Why should men quarrel? ; Seek not to know ; Retir'd from mortals' sight ; To arms, heroic Prince ; O lead me to some peaceful gloom ; Halcyon days ; Bid the virtues ; Lord, what is man? : a divine hymn ; Music for a while ; If music be the food of love : 1st setting ; Sawney is a bonny lad : a Scotch song ; When I have often heard young maids complaining ; Ah! cruel, bloody fate ; Thy hand, Belinda/When I am laid in earth
Summary Songs, in part excerpts from operas and incidental music, with acc. of recorders, oboe, trumpet, violin(s), viola, archlute, theorbo, baroque guitar, viola da gamba, harpsichord, chamber organ, and organ, separately or in various combinations
Notes Songs, in part excerpts from operas and incidental music, with acc. of recorders, oboe, trumpet, violin(s), viola, archlute, theorbo, baroque guitar, viola da gamba, harpsichord, chamber organ, and organ, separately or in various combinations
Performer Nancy Argenta, soprano ; Nigel North, archlute, theorbo, baroque guitar ; Richard Boothby, viola da gamba ; Paul Nicholson, harpsichord, chambr organ ; John Toll, harpsichord, organ ; Rachel Becket, Marion Scott, recorders ; Paul Goodwin, Sophia McKenna, oboes ; Mark Bennett, trumpet ; Pauline Nobes, Nicholas Robinson, Fiona Huggett, violins ; Trevor Jones, viola
Notes Sung in English or Latin
Hard copy version record
Subject Songs (High voice) with continuo.
Operas -- Excerpts.
Incidental music -- Excerpts.
Incidental music -- Excerpts.
Operas -- Excerpts.
Songs (High voice) with continuo.
Genre/Form Streaming audio
excerpts.
Excerpts.
Excerpts.
Extraits.
Form Streaming audio
Author Argenta, Nancy, singer
North, Nigel, instrumentalist
Boothby, Richard, 1955- instrumentalist
Nicholson, Paul (Organist), instrumentalist
Toll, John, instrumentalist
Becket, Rachel, instrumentalist
Scott, Marion, recorder player, instrumentalist
Goodwin, Paul, 1956- instrumentalist
McKenna, Sophia, instrumentalist
Bennett, Mark (Trumpeter), instrumentalist
Nobes, Pauline H., instrumentalist
Robinson, Nicholas (Violinist), instrumentalist
Huggett, Fiona, instrumentalist
Jones, Trevor (Viola da gamba player), instrumentalist
Other Titles Songs. Selections