Henry Purcell: Music for a While (1996)

Track Listing

1. Celebrate this festival (Birthday Ode for Queen Mary), ode for 5 soloists, double chorus, 2 oboes, 2 trumpets & continuo, Z. 321: Crown the Altar
2. Come ye sons of art away (Birthday ode for Queen Mary), for soloists, chorus & instruments, Z. 323: Strike the Viol
3. If music be the food of love, song, Z. 379 (3 settings)
4. In the black, dismal dungeon of despair, sacred song for soprano & continuo, Z. 190
5. Music for a While (from "Oedipus"), song, Z. 583/2

1. Celebrate this festival (Birthday Ode for Queen Mary), ode for 5 soloists, double chorus, 2 oboes, 2 trumpets & continuo, Z. 321: Crown the Altar
2. Come ye sons of art away (Birthday ode for Queen Mary), for soloists, chorus & instruments, Z. 323: Strike the Viol
3. If music be the food of love, song, Z. 379 (3 settings)
4. In the black, dismal dungeon of despair, sacred song for soprano & continuo, Z. 190
5. Music for a While (from "Oedipus"), song, Z. 583/2
6. Since from my dear Astrea's sight (from "Prophetess"), aria for soprano, Z. 627/App2
7. Thrice Happy Lovers (Epithalamium from "The Fairy Queen"), aria for soprano, Z. 629/39bc
8. Now does the glorious day appear (Ode for Queen Mary's Birthday), for soloists, chorus, violins & continuo, Z. 332: By beautious softness
9. Welcome to all the pleasures (An Ode for St. Cecilia's Day), for soloists, chorus & instruments, Z. 339: Here the Deities approve
10. O solitude, my sweetest choice, song, Z. 406
11. Sweeter than roses (from "Pausanias"), song, Z. 585/1
12. Hail, bright Cecilia (Ode for St. Cecilia's Day), for soloists, chorus & instruments, Z. 328: 'Tis Natures Voice
13. Incassum, Lesbia, incassum rogas (The Queen's Epicedium), song, Z. 383
14. One charming night (from "The Fairy Queen"), alto aria, Z. 629/13
15. Now that the sun hath veiled his light, sacred song for soprano & continuo ("An Evening Hymn"), Z. 193