Counter-Tenor Duets and Song by Purcell and his contemporaries (2000)

Track Listing

1. Sound the trumpet, beat the drum (Welcome Ode for James II), for 2 altos, tenors, basses, chorus, strings & continuo, Z. 335: Sound the Trumpet
2. If music be the food of love, song, Z. 379 (3 settings)
3. Music for a While (from "Oedipus"), song, Z. 583/2
4. Hail, bright Cecilia (Ode for St. Cecilia's Day), for soloists, chorus & instruments, Z. 328: In vain the am'rous flute
5. Welcome to all the pleasures (An Ode for St. Cecilia's Day), for soloists, chorus & instruments, Z. 339: Here the deities approve

1. Sound the trumpet, beat the drum (Welcome Ode for James II), for 2 altos, tenors, basses, chorus, strings & continuo, Z. 335: Sound the Trumpet
2. If music be the food of love, song, Z. 379 (3 settings)
3. Music for a While (from "Oedipus"), song, Z. 583/2
4. Hail, bright Cecilia (Ode for St. Cecilia's Day), for soloists, chorus & instruments, Z. 328: In vain the am'rous flute
5. Welcome to all the pleasures (An Ode for St. Cecilia's Day), for soloists, chorus & instruments, Z. 339: Here the deities approve
6. O dive custos Auriacae domus ("On the death of Queen Mary"), song for 2 sopranos & continuo, Z. 504
7. One charming night (from "The Fairy Queen"), alto aria, Z. 629/13
8. A Hymn to God the Father (Harmonia Sacra, Book 1, 1688)
9. No, resistance is but vain (from "Maid's Last Prayer"), song, Z. 601/2
10. I see, she flies me (from "Aureng-Zebe"), song, Z. 573/1
11. O Ravishing Delight
12. Ah, Heav'n! What Is't I Hear?
13. Since from my dear Astrea's sight (from "Prophetess"), aria for soprano, Z. 627/App2
14. Work(s): Quam diligo legem tuam
15. Now that the sun hath veiled his light, sacred song for soprano & continuo ("An Evening Hymn"), Z. 193
16. Paratum cor meum